Evaluating a Junior UX portfolio for a designer that transitioned from a UX/UI designer to a UX Designer.
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UX/UI designer to Principal UX Researcher | UX portfolio review plus takeaways
Today we review Benny Sun’s fantastic design portfolio. What makes it interesting is that Benny transitioned from UX/UI designer to Principal User researcher at Morgan Stanley. He has a background in the educational sector and was a R&D researcher for a Edtech company amongst other things. As usual, I will outline what he does particularly […]
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A day in the life of a junior UX designer at a digital agency and what they should be doing
A day in the life of a junior UX designer at a digital agency looks like and what they should be doing from a team manager’s perspective.
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Freebie: UX Sketchbook, 15 Free printable browser screens
Looking to communicate your design concepts more clearly? Struggling with draw a straight line let alone a wireframe sketch? Not to worry, we have created something just for you. Sketch out your concepts on a grid, write out your project feature notes and detail the scenario for that sketch. A variety of grid […]
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Was doing your degree a waste of time? UX-related degrees you might already have
Completing a degree can be so hard. It’s been years of blood, sweat and tears in trying to finish your degree. Towards the end, you may have had a quarter mid-life crisis along with a few mental breakdowns since you never really had a passion for that degree. Having heard about UX design, it may […]
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Looking to break into UX? Top 8 UX Design courses UX pros wish they had taken
Transitioning into the UX design industry from a different field can seem like a daunting task considering the amount of varied information one finds on the Internet. What should you know, what should you be able to do and should you go back to school to start a new degree/course? Obviously, getting some training is […]
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How to become a designer and get hired: Issue #1 Fantasy Interactive
[row] [/row] Youtube full interview. Thank you so much David for joining us. David if you could take us back to when you were still a student and tell us a little bit about where you grew up. What did you study? I started a long way from here. I started in Dublin, […]
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Is UX design a good fit for you? 8 personality traits you must have.
People who succeed in a UX design role have two things in common. Firstly, they enjoy what they do. Secondly, their personality fits the work they do daily. Too many articles on how to get started in UX design, dive straight into the courses that must be taken and the skills that must be acquired. […]
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Creating animated GIFs using Invision and Photoshop Part 2
The first part of this tutorial explained how to create an animated UI design for a mobile app using Invision and record the animation using ScreenFlow. The second part of this tutorial covers how to put the finishing touches on your presentation and the settings for exporting to a GIF using Photoshop. What we shall […]
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Creating animated design GIFs using Invision and Photoshop Part1
In the tutorial series “How to create animated GIFs for UI design presentations” we looked at how firstly to create and export the animations from After Effects and save as GIF in Photoshop. This process is very time consuming but the results are really impressive. After Effects allows for unique, quality animations and greater creative […]
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