Expert Advice when Starting a Career in UX Design

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Albert’s Tips for New UX Designers In The Field

In our interview with Albert, he shared 2 key pointers as advice for designers who are starting out:

Natan’s Advice for New UX Designers In The Field

Natan too shared some advice for designers, specifically those who are new in the field:

1. Communication skills

• Learn how to ask the right questions to understand your customers.
• Ask as many questions as you can to understand the objectives, budget, activities, timeline, and the resources you have for a project. This helps you know what is expected of you so that you are able to meet, if not exceed, them and leave a good impression on your stakeholders.
• Learn how to communicate with stakeholders. Know your timeline and what you are doing. Communicate when you are delivering what to your stakeholders, and tell them the next steps. Tell them how your user research will meet the business goal or certain KPIs. Use the results of a previous project to convince stakeholders. Most importantly, communicate the certainty that the work is going to be done at each part of the timeline. Show the artefacts and next steps, such that there is no doubt about what you are doing, how you are doing it and why you are doing it.

2. Fake it till you make it

• Fake it till you make it – always say you know how to do something, and learn how to do it.

3. Be profoundly curious

• Have profound curiosity – always go deeper, ask why, and aim to understand how something works in detail.

4. Understand your craft

• Understand your craft really well – be versatile in crafting tools, so that you can craft the ideas you want to test. Your craft is the limb of your creativity.

5. Always have a purpose

• Always have a purpose – if you put an element on a page or change the shape of an element, make sure you are conscious of why you are doing it. Be clear with what you want to say using your interface.

6. Always test

• This one’s self-explanatory.

With both these experts’ insights, I hope your journey as an up and coming UX Designer in the field will be a smooth one full of fruitful projects and memorable ventures. Don’t hesitate to leave a comment if you would like to see more of these types of articles and let us know if we missed a tip or two!