Anyone in UX Design?

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Perfect time to get into it Breh. The market is dry dry dry dry right now. I have about 20 years and hiring in the last few have been hard.

It's good to have a general understanding of HTML/CSS. Your designs are more informed that way and developers appreciate that shyt.

WE NEED MORE BREHS IN UX! If you have any UX questions or need advice let me know.

I don't use subscribe and have messages off but will pop in here time to time.
Sorry for the bump, but I just enrolled in a Google career cert for UX design and your post was really, really encouraging earlier :myman:
 

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^Same. I'm wanting the ecommerce site I've built (fills a gap) to have a more polished look with custom designs. Understanding user experience, picking up some design tools, and theory should take my sites to another level. I've been enjoying the Google/Coursera course, so far.
 
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Keep me updated with how it's going. Help anyway I can.

Thanks for the advice.
I'm new too and not finding companies hiring experience under 2 years unless the person was already a developer, product designed or graphic artist.
I plan to use this info to take my portfolio in a whole new direction.
Any additional info about using mechanical turk for usability studies?
 

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To give you a little background, a few months ago I finished that Google/Coursera UX design course. I enrolled in the course initially just as something to do, but I found that I really enjoyed doing it.

After finishing the program, I got a part time entry level position in UX design(I'm a CPA as my full time job).

What else should I learn as I continue to advance in UX design? Should I learn some coding?(HTML/CSS)

Reps for any advice :myman:
What was your method of finding work for it? I’ve enrolled for the course and decided to see if any other coli brehs did it :salute:
 

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What was your method of finding work for it? I’ve enrolled for the course and decided to see if any other coli brehs did it :salute:

Being honest? I just applied to like 15-20 UX roles every day on Indeed until someone gave me a shot, lol

The key is continuing to refine your portfolio, and somehow connect some things you did in your previous career to UX with interviewers if that makes sense

For example, I would say that I "empathized with the clients I managed as an Accountant"

Good luck breh :myman:
 

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Being honest? I just applied to like 15-20 UX roles every day on Indeed until someone gave me a shot, lol

The key is continuing to refine your portfolio, and somehow connect some things you did in your previous career to UX with interviewers if that makes sense

For example, I would say that I "empathized with the clients I managed as an Accountant"

Good luck breh :myman:
What role did you land if you don't mind me asking?
 

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To give you a little background, a few months ago I finished that Google/Coursera UX design course. I enrolled in the course initially just as something to do, but I found that I really enjoyed doing it.

After finishing the program, I got a part time entry level position in UX design(I'm a CPA as my full time job).

What else should I learn as I continue to advance in UX design? Should I learn some coding?(HTML/CSS)

Reps for any advice :myman:

CPA sounds like a pretty good job already. Why make the switch?
 

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What role did you land if you don't mind me asking?

The official title is Junior UX/UI Designer. Part time now but I'm hoping to make it FT within a few months!

CPA sounds like a pretty good job already. Why make the switch?

I've just lost interest in being a CPA/Accountant :manny: it is a very good career though. Stable and I'll have it to fall back on if this UX thing doesn't work out
 

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The official title is Junior UX/UI Designer. Part time now but I'm hoping to make it FT within a few months!



I've just lost interest in being a CPA/Accountant :manny: it is a very good career though. Stable and I'll have it to fall back on if this UX thing doesn't work out

Congrats! Pursue your dreams bro
 

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Im on Course 2 UX research and interviews, Surveys,,,

Not really feeling this course,, ithey should go in more detail at later Courses about this when the student has a some kind of test work or Material
 

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Im on Course 2 UX research and interviews, Surveys,,,

Not really feeling this course,, ithey should go in more detail at later Courses about this when the student has a some kind of test work or Material
do you have a portfolio already?
 
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