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UX Manager Melanie Siebert wanted to know how designers, researchers, and product managers felt about working with their content design counterparts. So she surveyed over 50 UXers. What do you think she found? If you work with a content designer, you might have guessed: Solutions are more effective, team morale is higher, and products ultimately improve! Read the full results, complete with charts! 📊 https://bit.ly/49GsrtQ

It started as a way to connect budding UX researchers with seasoned people in their field, swap career stories, share advice, and set goals. Then, Kathryn Brookshier's model for a UX mentorship program bloomed into an adapted model for UX pros of all disciplines. Creating this kind of intensive program from scratch isn’t easy, so Kathryn’s here to walk you through what makes for meaningful mentor–mentee relationships and how to build a program to support them — complete with a free template you can copy and customize. Find out more in Kathryn’s newest article on Indeed Design 👥 https://bit.ly/4cYTnaX

It’s time to select an “Upload” icon from your design system! Which would you choose? Which one will make the most sense for your user, and how do you know it’s the best choice? Comment below to let us know ⬇️ Then head to Indeed Design to read the article and see Marty Merida’s recommendations 🔗 https://bit.ly/3IVss24

It’s here! The final installment of Rebecca Granat Shapiro's UX roadmapping series is available on Indeed Design 🗺️ The latest article connects all the project and conversation dots by taking you through the most important part of a UX roadmap: the master doc itself. You’ll find valuable tips for each step of the drafting process, a template you can use in your own planning, and advice for creating an accessible doc the whole team can use. https://bit.ly/48ziY6T 🛣️🚗👋 This series has been a fun ride! We hope it helps you on the way to great UX work.

Last year was a big year for the Indeed Design publication, thanks to all of you! Here are five of our readers' favorite stories from 2023, in case you missed (or were missing) them: 🤣 Design system funnies 😭 Hard numbers for the burst hiring bubble ✏ UX content and UX research resource templates ❤️ Indeed's very own UX principles We hope your 2024 is off to a good start! https://lnkd.in/gXQxr5nJ

Creating a UX roadmap is quite the journey. You’ve got to choose what types of projects will help your team reach its goals, see eye to eye in planning conversations, and write the actual document that will lead you through the project — it’s a lot. No worries, you’ve got a tour guide. Senior UX director and roadmapping mastermind Rebecca Granat Shapiro has the perfect route. The first installment of her series on UX roadmapping is live on Indeed Design! 🔗 https://bit.ly/48KzT7j She’ll steer you through the 4 most common types of design projects your team might include on a roadmap and some tips to help you succeed along the way. Keep an eye out for the next articles on holding effective conversations and — you guessed it — creating that master roadmap document, coming soon! 🚗

This holiday season, give your UX coworkers the gift they didn’t know they needed. Introducing: a very thorough guide to leveraging AI in UX, created by a real human! (Handmade gifts are the best, you know.) Inside is a veritable cornucopia of example tasks and links to specific tools you can use in your very own UX work and share with others, too. It’s a versatile, useful, and thoughtful present to give a UX pro. A new year is coming, and nothing says “I value your UX work” like a shiny, new AI resource! Send that link to your favorite teams and people today 🎁 https://bit.ly/47UUBke

Design school is helpful for lots of people. It just doesn’t teach every little thing you need to know to succeed in your first UX role. But the good news is that learning on the job with the right attention and resources can bring you up to speed in no time. Read about how Courtney Fortin’s first year in a UX design job filled in those gaps between learning and practice 🔎 https://bit.ly/3sVAnIp

Previous reporting from UX Research Manager Kathryn Brookshier showed that UX jobs in the US plummeted in 2023. But what about elsewhere? Kathryn recently dug into data that suggest complex futures for UX jobs in Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. Here’s the breakdown: 🇨🇦 Canada’s market mirrors the US 🇬🇧🇮🇪 Open roles keep declining in the UK and Ireland 🇦🇺 Australia’s pandemic-era tech boom was comparatively smaller, and open roles are still declining below pre-COVID levels North American job pools are more resilient, but only time will tell how the availability of UX roles will fluctuate across smaller markets across the globe. Read all about it ▶️ ▶️ https://bit.ly/3MIOt6p

With good prompt engineering skills, you can be a UX superhero — with AI as your trusty sidekick. Whatever your role, prompt engineering for AI tools is a superpower everyone can use. Learn more about how this skill can help your UX know-how soar to new heights 🌟 https://bit.ly/3QwNIzP