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Honest UX TalksFeb 16, 2022
#99 Being too easy vs too hard to work with as a designer
In this episode:
How to articulate strong opinion and stand your ground in collaboration?
When as a designer you try to get your point across, should you go for a soft strategy or should you be more pushy?
How to become an effective communicator?
Why building relationships with your teammates is important?
Why designers should be facilitators for good decisions?
Resources:
"Articulating Design Decisions" book
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#98 Is it the time to quit UX and move on?
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In this episode:
• What to do if you consider quitting design industry and feel less motivated as a designer? How do you know it is time for something new?
• What to do if you feel burned out from your design role?
• What are alternative career paths for designers?
Resources:
Episode with Hang Xu on "How to negotiate salaries in UX design"
Reddit thread mentioned in the episode
Matej Latin's article "Why designers quit"
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#97 Being an intern and pursuing a full-time role
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In this episode:
• How to showcase your value as UX designer when you are just starting out?
• How to approach interviews with potential companies as an intern? What questions to ask during the the interviewing process with potential companies?
• What are the strategies or ways how to identify opportunities for yourself as an intern in the company? What are the steps you should take as an intern to make the best our of your internship?
• How to overcome impostor syndrome and build your confidence as a designer?
Resources:
"The first 90 days" book
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#96 Designing for accessibility w/ Anna Cook
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In this episode:
• Why accessibility is sometimes overlooked when designing?
• What companies are mature in terms of accessibility?
• How to build the business case for accessibility?
• What is the future of AI and its effect on accessibility?
This episode's guest:
Anna's Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility course
People in the accessibility field to follow:
Stef Walter, Christina Mallon (She/her), Alexis Lucio (They/Them), Soren Hamby (They/Them), Shell Little (She/Her) Jennifer Zhang (She/Her), Crystal Preston Watson (She/Her), Yue Ou, Deepika Raj, Eric Bailey, Doug Kim, Matt May
Resources:
Microsoft joins Be My Eyes app
Building an accessibility program course
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#95 How to negotiate salaries in UX design
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In this episode:
• Why is it always valuable to negotiate? How being a better negotiator makes you a better designer?
• In what ways salary negotiation determines your career trajectory?
• How to understand company’s negotiation philosophy and leverage it? At which point during the hiring process does negotiation happen?
• Can junior designers negotiate their salary?
• How to know what’s the right salary for your position? What is the best medium for the negotiation? How to compare job offers?
• Are people afraid to negotiate because they are afraid of their offer being rescinded? Does it really happen?
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#94 Designing in Uncertainty
In this episode:
• How to handle relationships and team work in ambiguous environment?
• How documentation and workshops can help to deal with ambiguity?
• What learning a foreign language and working in ambiguous environments have in common?
• Why is it so important to identify key stakeholders in your project?
• How to stay sane in ambiguous environments?
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#93 Juggling a Design Role and Parenthood
In this episode:
• What was parental leave like?
• What are the biggest fears before going to parental leave? Which of them turned out to be real?
• What does an effective support system look like?
• What to do during the parental leave to continue to stay relevant so when you get back you can still perform. How can you ease that anxiety of coming back?
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#92 AI's Impact on the Design Industry w/Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen is joining us for a special discussion about AI!
Questions we are going to delve into in this episode:
• How do you see the state of AI in design right now? Are there any new themes or is history repeating itself? • Will AI eventually replace designers? • Are there any specific parts of design process or design roles that are threatened by AI the most? • What would you advise designers to stay relevant and competitive in design field in the upcoming years? • What we should worry about when it comes to AI? What we should be excited about? • What tool should designers start with, if they never been exposed to AI?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
uxtigers.com - This website is the home for Jakob Nielsen's new articles about UX and usability, often about the intersection of UX and AI.
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#91 Growing as UX designers
In this episode:
Anfi and Ioana look back at their careers and reflect on the challenges they encountered professionally. They share tips and strategies they used in order to overcome those challenges.
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#90 Reflections and predictions from 2023
In this episode:
• What moments filled us with pride this year?"
• What are our professional aspirations for 2024?"
• What concerns or fears did we encounter in the past year?"
• What were some of the challenges we encountered in the UX design industry?"
• How will our podcast evolve?"
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#89 My startup founder-designer story
In this episode:
Anfi unfolds her captivating journey, delving into the challenges she faced as a designer and co-founder in a startup.
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#88 Choosing to work full time over freelancing
• What drives our decision to commit to a full-time role in a product company instead of pursuing freelancing opportunities?
• Why we transitioned to full-time work and what kept us there?
• What are the pros and cons, as well as the trade-offs, of committing to full-time employment compared to freelance?
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Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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#87 How we failed a podcast re-branding project
In this episode:
Anfisa and Ioana delve into the missteps behind the failed rebranding of 'Honest UX Talks'.
Let us know where do you usually listen to the 'Honest UX talks' podcast in the question section.
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#86 The Long-Awaited Return: UX and Life Check-in
In this episode:
Anfisa and Ioana unveil their career milestones and life transformations.
Let us know where do you usually listen to the 'Honest UX talks' podcast in the question section.
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#85 The Impact of AI on UX Design industry
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In this episode:
How is AI changing the design industry?
What is the type of work AI can and cannot do?
What skills are not going to be replaced by AI in the foreseeable future? What kind of design work can be easily automated?
How to stay relevant in the design industry?
Upcoming Events:
'The future of AI and UX design: what it means for you' webinar hosted by Ioanna, is happening at 4 PM (CEST) on May 25.
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'AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career' masterclass by Ioana with Interaction Design Foundation
Mentioned in this episode:
Ben's Bites daily newsletter about AI
People + AI Research (PAIR) is a multidisciplinary team at Google that explores the human side of AI
Elements of AI is a free online course on AI
Azure AI is a framework for developing comprehensive solutions for data and AI by Microsoft
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#84 UX job hunting strategies
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In this episode:
What is a job hunting strategy and why you should have one ?
Why applying to hundreds of jobs is not a good idea?
What strategy we would recommend in 2023?
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#83 Building a strong UX case study
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In this episode:
How to start building a case study?
What are the stages of building a case study?
Why is it important to understand in what medium you will be sharing your case study?
What are the top practical tips for building a case study?
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#82 Standing out as a UX designer during job hunting
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In this episode:
How to stand out as a junior designer in a tough market? What can you bring to the table as a junior designer?
What junior designers lack in their portfolios?
What are the common mistakes junior designers make when applying for jobs? What are hiring managers looking for?
Why is it important to target where you are applying to even as a junior designer?
Why is it important to find your unique value proposition and how to articulate that?
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#81 Navigating UX career as a non-native English speaker
In this episode:
Is it important to master English if you are going into UX design career? Is English an important part of UX design career?
How to build UX vocabulary in a foreign language?
How were Anfi's and Ioanna's early days in UX?
How was the content making in UX design as a non-native English speaker?
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#80 Red flags in UX job postings (+big news drop)
In this episode:
Hosts' personal experiences navigating job opportunities
How to understand whats behind the job description? How to evaluate job descriptions?
What are the green and red signs when searching for jobs and analysing and evaluating the options?
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#79 Finding your niche in UX design
Into UX jobs. Secure your dream job with the right strategy - Anfi's new 3 week course on how to find a perfect UX/Product design job for you (even in the middle of the tech crisis).
In this episode:
What is the current situation on the UX market? How can an aspiring designer understand where they fit in?
How can you find or rather define your niche? How to try out and test different niches?
How knowing what your natural talents are and what you are good at can help you in finding your niche?
What tools can help you to identify your niche?
Mentioned in this episode:
16 Personality test based on Carl Jung's and Isabel Briggs Myers' typological approach to personality
"Which of the million UX roles suits you best? A personality type analysis" article by Bas Wallet
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#78 Freelancing as a UX designer
Into UX jobs. Secure your dream job with the right strategy - Anfi's new 3 week course on how to find a perfect UX/Product design job for you (even in the middle of the tech crisis).
In this episode:
How do you get started with freelancing? What are some of the essential aspects of freelancing you need to know about? What are some of the things that need to be there for you to be successful as a freelancer? What are the things designers should be careful about when they are considering freelancing?
Mentioned in this episode:
#62 UX Design Horror Stories episode
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#77 Asking for design feedback
In this episode:
How to frame the conversation to get more targeted feedback? How do you set up the rules for communicating or asking for feedback?
Why all size fits all presentations not work? Why is it important to prepare your presentation and tailor it to the audience?
How to be open for feedback and navigate the conversation? How to give constructive feedback?
Mentioned in this episode:
- FREE CV template (ATS-friendly) that Anfisa mentioned
- Course: Communication skills for Designers by Mariusz Posadowski
- Articulating Design Decisions by Tom Greever
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#76 Growth design w/Sera Tajima
In this episode:
What is grown design? How different is it from traditional design role?
How can you as a product designer apply it to your work?
What are the educational programs that teach you that? How can you learn it on your own?
What role research play in growth design? How different it is from the classic product design structure?
How does growth designer’s portfolio look like? How portfolio would differ from product to growth designer?
Who growth designer usually collaborates with within the team?
Connect with Sera:
Sera's website 'The Craft'
Sera's newsletter
Sera's instagram
Sera's Youtube channel
Sera's Linkedin
Mentioned in this episode:
'Hacking growth' book by Sean Ellis
Reforge by Brian Balfour
growth.design - Product tips in a comic book format
Links:
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FREE webinar: Smooth transition into UX by Anfisa
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#75 Dealing with UX job rejections w/Tanner Christensen
In this episode:
How to approach job rejections and ask the company where mismatch happened? How to reflect back on the feedback from the rejection?
What are the reasons companies might not wanna reveal the feedback?
What is the advice for junior or aspiring designers on how to deal with rejections in the beginning of their career?
What are the strategies to prepare for the interview? What are the good questions you can prepare and ask during the interview?
Connect with Tanner:
Tanner's website
Tanner's Linkedin
'A Designer's Guide to Interviewing' book
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#74 Collaboration between designers and PMs
In this episode:
Where do responsibilities start and end for each of these roles? What is expected of each role?
What is the key responsibility of the designer and the product manager?
How to navigate different challenges? What are the things that might go bad in this collaboration between designers and product managers?
Mentioned in this episode:
"PM and UX Have Markedly Different Views of Their Job Responsibilities" article by Nielsen Norman
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#73 A day in the life of a UX designer
In this episode:
How does a typical day of a UX designer look like within a context of startup, freelance and corporate company?
What are the typical routines outside the work?
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#72 Design processes: expectations vs. reality
In this episode:
What design processes do companies use these days?
How do processes differ between start ups, big companies and freelancing projects?
Mentioned in the episode:
'How design (generally) works at tech companies' article
Links:
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#71 Should we be worried about tech layoffs?
In this episode:
How to handle a layoff? What should you do if you got laid off? What can you do to make it easier for you?
Should we be really scared about layoffs and job market freeze? Does it impact the amount of jobs on the market?
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Website about layoff statistics
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#70 Typical archetypes of designers
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What are the typical types of designers?
Are some archetypes of designers more successful than others in their career?
Is there a relationship between the archetypes and the roles a designer lands in?
How can you understand your speciality and your strong sides?
What is The GROW model session?
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#69 Lessons learned in 2022
In this episode:
Anfisa and Ioana share the key lessons and achievements of 2022.
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#68 Growing design maturity within the company
In this episode:
- How can you assess the maturity of the company you are working in?
- How can a UX designer help to increase UX maturity of the company? What are the practices that can help with that?
- What is the criteria for design maturity in a company?
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The 6 Levels of UX Maturity article by Nielsen Norman Group
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#67 Collaborating with UX researchers
Discussed in this episode:
- Why researchers and not designers are supposed to do the research?
- At which stage of a company's development UX researchers need to be hired?
- How can designers efficiently collaborate with researchers?
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#66 Getting started in UX design in 2023
Discussed in this episode:
- Is this the right moment in the current economic context to transition into UX design career?
- Is career in UX for me?
- What are the initial steps for transitioning into UX?
- How to choose the right course for you? Should I be a self-taught designer or do i need to take a course or a Bootcamp?
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- 'Applying to hundreds of jobs w/Sarah Doody' episode
- 'UX&Product design tools' episode
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#65 UX Design Research Tools
Discussed in this episode:
- What kind of research do UX designers typically run?
- What are the most useful research tools on the market right now?
- How to choose between multiple tools that serve the same need?
- How can we recruit users? How to find users to run research with?
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#64 Why did we choose a career in UX design?
Discussed in this episode:
Anfi's and Ioana's stories on how they started their careers in UX design.
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#63 Building UX design educational program
Discussed in this episode:
What is Instructional Design?
What are the guiding principles for designing the course?
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#62 UX Design Horror Stories
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#61 Why you are not getting UX job interviews?
Discussed in this episode:
Why you don’t get any feedback to your design portfolio after applying? How to stand out as an applicant? How do recruiters filter candidates?
What are the typical portfolio red flags?
What are the ways of finding jobs other than on job boards?
Why your portfolio should be intentional and what does that mean?
How can you apply the principle of progressive disclosure to your portfolio?
Should you include personas in your portfolio? Elaborate discussion on that topic
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Episode with Sarah Doodey on how to get hired for a UX position without applying to hundreds of roles
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#60 Surviving in a very technical company
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Discussed in this episode:
How to survive without fully grasping what’s the product is about?
How to work in a complex technical environment?
What are the strategies that can improve your workflow on projects that are very technical? How to facilitate a new way of thinking?
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#59 UX design conferences
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How to find and choose the right type of design events for you?
What is the criteria for choosing conferences?
What are the pros and cons of design conferences?
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#58 Should designers learn how to code?
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Discussed in this episode:
Do designers need to know how to code in order to succeed in today’s marketplace compared to the time when UX was establishing as a field?
How coding can come in handy for the designer and enhance your capabilities? In what aspect of design work, coding knowledge can be very useful? What are design specialisations that might require coding?
Anfi and Ioanna’s stories of how coding can be complimentary when building design systems
Will classic design tools evolve into web design tools?
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#57 Typical mistakes designers are doing while applying for a job
Discussed in this episode:
In this episode, Denis a founder of figura.digital shares a lot of insights, real stories and advice on how to successfully land a job in design industry.
• How Denis came up and developed the idea of Figure.digital?
• What are the stages of interviewing process to get on the figura.digital platform? What are the interview questions you can expect? You will be quite surprised by some of them...
• What are the most common mistakes designers do during interviews? What things you can prepare before the interview to increase the chances of your success?
• What are the traits of successful designers that you can develop?
Links:
Portfolio and Interview Prep Checklist by Denis
Article on Universally High-Signal Interview Questions
Video on how Ran Segal got rejected 60 times before getting a design internship
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#56 Freelancing as a UX Designer
Discussed in this episode:
What aspects are essential for finding freelance work?
What is the process of getting on Toptal?
What are the platforms for finding freelance work? What are the challenges you might encounter there?
What are the other ways of getting freelance work apart from online platforms?
Anfi's story of how she started her career with freelancing and Ioanna's story of how she got into Toptal.
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#55 Future of UX design. Will robots steal our jobs?
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• What are the trends in the market right now that help us to understand what to expect in 10 years?
• How can we prepare for the future of AI and design?
• How can we still be competitive with robots and stay valuable in the market? What skills might and might not be replaced by AI?
Discussed in this episode:
Mark McElhaw's article ‘Saving the Experience… with a bit of Drama’.
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#54 Retaining joy with side projects w/Design Life
• Who are the hosts of Design Life podcast and their side projects
• How do they retain joy from their side projects
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#53 UX Writing w/Yuval Keshtcher
• What is UX writing? How UX writing is different from copywriting?
• What is the difference between UX design and UX writing?
• How does collaboration between UX writers and UX designers look like? Do UX writers also propose user flows?
• How does UX writing process look like?
• What are the current UX writing standards or common practices?
• What tools, software and plug-ins UX writers commonly use?
• How to pursue career as a UX writer? What's an ideal background for a UX writer? How to transition from UX design to UX writing?
• How does UX writers portfolio look like?
• What are education program recommendations to become UX writer?
Discussed in this episode:
Microcopy & UX Writing Facebook group
Funny and ridiculous UX title generator
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#52 Micromanagement at the workplace
• Why micromanagement is a problem? In what way it can impact individual contributors on a daily basis?
• What are the implications of dealing with micro management working style?
• What are the signs of micromanagement you can look out for? Can those signs be spot during the job hunting process?
• Constructive ways of dealing with micromanagement.
• Is skill set of a good designer similar to a skill set of a good manager?
• Top 6 takeaways
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#51 Working with old-school designers
• Does work experience in terms of number of years translates into competence?
• How to deal with senior designers who are defensive or have ego issues?
• What Senior designers can learn from Juniors?
• Top 6 takeaways
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#50 How to move from Junior to Mid Level Designer
• What are the signs you are not a junior designer anymore and can move to a new level?
• How to understand what gaps you need to fill in in order to move to a new level? What is a career development framework?
• What to do if you feel that you are ready to move to the new level but you do not get promoted?
• How to build a case for promotion?
• Top 6 takeaways
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