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🖥️ Creative Computing background? UX design could be your perfect fit! 🚀 This post is for you if you're curious about a career switch to UX design. Our UX Tree Mentorship Program helped Hannah O Donoghue leverage her Creative Computing skills to land a UX Designer role at Motion. Here's what Hannah has to say: 👉 UX design combines your design knowledge with your programming skills. 👉 The mentorship program provided valuable guidance and connections. 👉 There are many resources available to help you learn and grow in UX. Get a taste of UX with our new Fundamentals course. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eHGR2Efd #uxdesign #careerchange #creativecomputing #uxmentorship #uxfundamentals

You must be thinking that my teaching way might not be good or maybe students did not want to learn from my classes because I was not good at teaching. Right? But no, this was not the case. I asked each student personally about this thing. They were saying that genuinely they want to attend classes but the thing is they have enrolled in some other UX course as well, so they are not able to attend my classes. Read more at - https://lnkd.in/gMipbrVg #uiux #uxdesign #uxcourse #bootcamp #designer #onlinelearning #jobfromcourse #coursetojob #uxdesigner #uidesigner

It turns out that the life that awaits me is not only about colors and shapes! 💌 The second module of Brick Institute | Userspots Akademi UX Okulu was on UX Research. In other words, Figma became an old friend. ❤️🩹 I escaped from Data Science and found myself in qualitative data waiting for me to analyze them. No components, no HEX codes. Only customization I could do was to color the table’s columns. As a subject, I chose the Marti Technologies (NYSE: MRT) App, which I always see the scooters on every corner, and I spent the whole month intertwined with the application and its users. (But unfortunately, I still prefer to walk the hill to my home. Let’s call it ✨choosing of being healthy✨ rather than PTSD. I hope I don't have to be brave to encourage people 😬) It was exciting to listen to real people's experiences with an existing product! Also, what improved me the most is that in this module, in addition to the UX research principles and AirTable features, I also learned how to really listen. Well-prepared questions, sufficient time and each new interview with the correct target audience made me feel more comfortable in the sessions and increased my ability to ask spontaneous questions. Experiencing this process during the education before the real world, with the help and feedback of my mentors İlayda Sena Topcu and Beste Rodoplu Özkan, not only affected my career but also my daily life. Maybe now if I go back to university as a trained listener, I can be productive even in 3-hour lectures at 8:30AM! 🏄♀️ You can access my project “We did it your way!” from the link below! 🛴💚 https://lnkd.in/du4UhqV9

A few weeks ago, I saw a form inquiring about the challenges students might face with our school portal, and it got me thinking: why not try to improve it? So, in the process of improving it, I decided to replicate the portal to understand more of the user experience, and also as a personal project for self-development. Working on this has been a great way to sharpen my UI/UX skills and think more deeply about how design can really make life easier for users. It’s been a fun learning experience, and I’m excited to keep going. For the next month (till the 20th of September), I’ve set a goal to post my work at least once a week. If you’re also working on yourself and want to grow your skills (any skill is allowed), I’d love for you to join me! Post your work once a week too, and let’s keep each other motivated. You can use #SelfDevelopmentForAMonth so we can stay connected ❤️ Below is my prototype of the school portal for Bells University Of Technology. I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on how to make it even better. P.S. The character in the prototype is fictional, just for the sake of the design. Share & repost, you might help someone 🤗❤️ #SelfDevelopment #ProductDesign #UXUI #LearningByDoing #GrowthJourney #SelfDevelopmentForAMonth

I achieved a UX Research for Programming Learning APP. It's a moment of joy and fulfillment as I worked hard to make this happen my Project for UX Research scholarship powered by #Udacity_Nanodegree. Project Agenda:- 1- UX Research Plan 2- UX research Research 3- Design Sketch - Visit my profile page at Behance : https://lnkd.in/eUWXKpEQ #UdacityNanodegree #Udacity #UX #UX_Research #GoogleUX #CaseStudy #uxdesign #Recuiter #ProgrammingLearningAPP #DesignSketch #UXResearchPlan

🎵✨ Just dropped a new blog post about blending Design Thinking & UX with education in my middle school band classes! 🎷📚 It's amazing to see how teaching has shaped my approach to design. Check it out for a mix of fun lessons and design insights! #DesignThinking #UXDesign #Education #MusicEducation ➡️ https://lnkd.in/edxyzEFP

🌟 Super thrilled to unveil my latest case study—a fantastic learning journey that's close to my heart! Dive into the world of aspirants preparing for competitive exams, facing hurdles in finding the right mentors. 📚 Introducing an ecosystem for preparation with personality-based tailor-made mentorship sessions. 🚀 This journey taught me invaluable nuances of the UX world. Now live, I invite every designer to explore and share feedback to help me grow. 🙌 Through this case study, I navigated each stage of the design thinking process: 1️⃣ Discover: Unveiling pain points and opportunities using the 4W+H framework and user journey mapping. 2️⃣ Empathize: Conducting primary and secondary research to validate problem statements and analyze existing mentorship systems. 3️⃣ Define: Crafting user personas to understand core users deeply. 4️⃣ Ideate: Brainstorming solutions, writing user stories, creating user flows, and architecting the product. 5️⃣ Prototype: From low to high fidelity, designing over 70+ screens with visual design elements like color schemes, typography, and logos. 6️⃣ Testing: Collecting user feedback and iterating to perfection. 🌈 In the end, I talk about the expanding scope of the project. Have a look and share your feedback! #UXDesign #CaseStudy #Mentorship 🎨💡📊 Behance Case Study 👇 https://lnkd.in/eaWi2hEa

Today, I attended Ansh Mehra's seminar on UI/UX and I had the privilege to learn so many new things! Here are a few very important and interesting things I learned at this UIUX Seminar!✨ 👉🏻Document everything: Document EVERYTHING you do and that includes learning, experimenting, designing etc. The best platform to make and organise your documents is Notion. 👉🏻Design Degree is not mandatory to become a designer : While a design degree can provide valuable knowledge and credentials, it’s not always necessary to excel in the field. You can still become a good designer if you have your basics right and are the best at what you do. 👉🏻Tool Figma subject UX: Figma is a popular design tool used for creating user interfaces, prototypes, and collaborative design projects. Understanding how to effectively utilize Figma is essential for UX (User Experience) designers to create intuitive and visually appealing digital products. Mastery of Figma allows designers to streamline their workflow, iterate quickly, and communicate ideas efficiently. 👉🏻Functionality > aesthetics: In product design, prioritizing functionality over aesthetics means focusing on creating products that are intuitive, efficient, and solve real user problems effectively. While aesthetics are important for user engagement and brand identity, they should not compromise the usability or performance of the product. Striking a balance between functionality and aesthetics is key to creating successful designs. 👉🏻Prefer iOS and in that fintech or edtech: If you are a beginner your best option to build a case study would be designing a mobile app and you should opt for iOS. These were the key learnings from his amazing seminar and I am grateful to be able to attend it!✨ #uiux #uiuxgram #uiuxdaily #uiuxdesigner #seminar #chatgpt #ai #uidesigner #uxdesigner

I was asked to answer this question; You need to resolve a conflict in your team, which software would you use? My answer: I would like to speak from experience. Few months ago, I was a bootcamp student in Product Design(UX/UI) track. We were given a Capstone Project and were about 5 students per team. Since we had various tracks such as technical writing, product management and product design (UX/UI), every team consisted one or two students from each track. When we were about bringing in ideas to set up a design for an AI emergency telemedicine app for 2050, we went into serious conflict that could tamper with the success of the project. Immediately we began using figma, a collaborative tool for design, we resolved our conflicts amicably. We also incooperated the use of Google teams for meetings while on our figma board and the way we totally resolved our conflict was like magic. We succeeded in our project and got great feedback that has helped us better understand ways to navigate around our user centric design. The picture is not in anyway related to the topic. ☺

Education App UI Design Sneak Peek 🪴 — We've poured our hearts into the research, feature planning, UX mapping, and wireframing for this design. It's just the first look at what we're building for Edock, our passionate venture in education. This preview highlights a few key features we're rolling out in our initial app version. You'll see how we've organized Attendance, Marks, and Tasks for students. Plus, we've included a special section for all those amazing offers students can access but might not even know exist. This project isn't just a dream—it's a reality, registered as a PVT LTD under Startup India, with a web MVP already up and running. Next up, we're diving into sales to institutes to bring our proof of concept to life. Fingers crossed!! As we push forward with our most ambitious project 🙏