It’s one of the things I’ve learned working in corporate America and FAANG. The UX process may seem linear but it is NOT always linear. I personally think if there are established design systems with dos and don’t and the designer has mastery of figma comps and variables to be able to iterate quickly, going from super low, to mid to high wireframes isn’t always a MUST.
great example🎉 this is exactly what I’m doing right now - a complete redraw of the case studies for one of the top US banks, that I can’t even name due to NDA😂
Tsss... I'm in the actual process of creating, well... updating my Portfolio. I'm a Senior with +15 years of experience and is becoming really hard to showcase public work, as most of my projects are under NDA. Thanks for your content!
Same here... and I've never had time to sit down and create a portfolio where I re-create all the case studies with a made up company. I've actually been working non-stop, so I don't know how people get time to create these complex portfolios. I actually NEVER had a portfolio (12 years of experience), I ONLY get job from contact and references. I do a good job and people re-hire and recommend me. That simple.
This is such a good content, thank God I learned English and I'm able to see these videos. I'm not 100% sure but think you cannot find channels like this in Spanish. Saludos.
If the work on a project spans across a few years (let's say 2-3) - is it better to have a case study like this that shows the entire process, or would it be better to take one project initiative that was really meaningful, a specific problem that the project initiative solved and then showing the results? I find concise case studies like that more interesting. And if someone worked on a product for a few years, they should be able to extract a few stories like that for their portfolio to show different approaches. It can still be abstract enough to respect the NDA.
These are excellent suggestions and I really like adding the disclaimer. I was worried after being laid off and going through the legal processes and having to sign NDAs that it would nullify the last 3 years of my work. I’ve since changed logos and their images but I was wondering if you have found any issues with using the actual stock images? It would take me a million years to update all of those. 😂
Another thing that has never been clear to me is how come UX designer is expected to be a master of both : discovery research and UX design, and testing, but it’s ok for a UX researcher to NOT do any wireframes, prototyping or UI work and focus solely on quantitative and qualitative? maybe since I’m a sole designer I gotta do it all, but would like your thoughts on that dynamic.
Great Q. It has always been the case that UX designer encompasses research and design. Ux research spinoff is a very recent phenomenon and still shaping up. Typically ux researchers now do look into more strategic problem discoveries as they can't justify just doing research on the product side, alternatively they are spread thin across multiple research projects or design efforts... it really depends. There has been a boost in ux research jobs recently, but I foresee a bigger need (in terms of overall open ux roles) for generalist UXer
@@vaexperience Do you think this might just be due to UI work becoming more and more autopilot-y by the strength of the tools? I always thought we differentiate into UX Research nowadays because there is a split between "Design-thinking" and "Design-System-Drag-and-Drop"
It’s one of the things I’ve learned working in corporate America and FAANG. The UX process may seem linear but it is NOT always linear. I personally think if there are established design systems with dos and don’t and the designer has mastery of figma comps and variables to be able to iterate quickly, going from super low, to mid to high wireframes isn’t always a MUST.
great example🎉 this is exactly what I’m doing right now - a complete redraw of the case studies for one of the top US banks, that I can’t even name due to NDA😂
Tsss... I'm in the actual process of creating, well... updating my Portfolio. I'm a Senior with +15 years of experience and is becoming really hard to showcase public work, as most of my projects are under NDA. Thanks for your content!
Same here... and I've never had time to sit down and create a portfolio where I re-create all the case studies with a made up company. I've actually been working non-stop, so I don't know how people get time to create these complex portfolios. I actually NEVER had a portfolio (12 years of experience), I ONLY get job from contact and references. I do a good job and people re-hire and recommend me. That simple.
This is such a good content, thank God I learned English and I'm able to see these videos. I'm not 100% sure but think you cannot find channels like this in Spanish.
Saludos.
Glad you enjoy it!
If the work on a project spans across a few years (let's say 2-3) - is it better to have a case study like this that shows the entire process, or would it be better to take one project initiative that was really meaningful, a specific problem that the project initiative solved and then showing the results? I find concise case studies like that more interesting. And if someone worked on a product for a few years, they should be able to extract a few stories like that for their portfolio to show different approaches. It can still be abstract enough to respect the NDA.
These are excellent suggestions and I really like adding the disclaimer. I was worried after being laid off and going through the legal processes and having to sign NDAs that it would nullify the last 3 years of my work.
I’ve since changed logos and their images but I was wondering if you have found any issues with using the actual stock images? It would take me a million years to update all of those. 😂
Another thing that has never been clear to me is how come UX designer is expected to be a master of both
: discovery research and UX design, and testing, but it’s ok for a UX researcher to NOT do any wireframes, prototyping or UI work and focus solely on quantitative and qualitative? maybe since I’m a sole designer I gotta do it all, but would like your thoughts on that dynamic.
Great Q. It has always been the case that UX designer encompasses research and design. Ux research spinoff is a very recent phenomenon and still shaping up. Typically ux researchers now do look into more strategic problem discoveries as they can't justify just doing research on the product side, alternatively they are spread thin across multiple research projects or design efforts... it really depends. There has been a boost in ux research jobs recently, but I foresee a bigger need (in terms of overall open ux roles) for generalist UXer
@@vaexperience Do you think this might just be due to UI work becoming more and more autopilot-y by the strength of the tools? I always thought we differentiate into UX Research nowadays because there is a split between "Design-thinking" and "Design-System-Drag-and-Drop"