Hello! If you found the moving gradient background distracting, I made this video version with a STILL background :) th-cam.com/video/8fgsIu9KUF0/w-d-xo.html (it's a private video, only accessible through this link~)
I really want to compliment you on your excellent communication skills throughout, you have a way of explaining your thought process very clearly which definitely is one of the core skills within ux. Great stuff 👌
GIRRRRRL! You are going places! Love watching all your videos. I love how you explain your thinking, you are so honest and clear. Thank you for sharing and being transparent!
I learned so much about Heuristic Evaluation and how to apply to redesign. Thank you! Question: Do they address the Heuristic Evaluation in the Springboard Bootcamp, or did you learn to do it yourself?
Really great and helpful presentation Sharon, just a small comment about the background blending colors, it looks interesting and colourful but defocus the viewers from the main content and maybe it's not quite good UX solution, have a great day! :)
너무 도움되는 찐 정보라 구독했습니다. 이렇게 구체적으로 보여주는 step by step walk-through 너무 좋아요. This is exactly the kind of stuff people want to see! Very helpful! Keep it up! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge through these videos! I am really interested in design but I'm not really familiar with the industry overall so these videos help! Please keep on sharing :D
When you selected right car and finally came to rent it, you will hear - we do not carry this car currently and will give you an another one. Anyway, you gave a good design guide.
Thanks for this video and the Figma file. I find it quite valuable and it's always interesting to see how other people work 🙃 As for 21:25: I agree with your assessment and I was thinking of other ways to push back on this: A: It's basically a repetition because the client has already selected the prefered car at an earlier step. If data shows that clients get upsold quite a lot here then perhaps that is an indication that the benefits of a higher upgrade were not obvious enough on an earlier page. B: If the client insists on having this feature for economic reasons I'd try to make it more obvious to the user, so it's clear that it's an upgrade and not just: 'Let's hope the button gets clicked by accident!'. I would do this by listing all advantages clearly (e.g. 1 extra child seat, premium interior, less road noise. At the moment there is only 'Need a little more room?') and make the button stand out more. All of this to make sure an upgrade by the user was an intended choice. What do you think?
hey! I agree with your point B more. Considering when talking to stakeholders they are not familiar with UX terms, using a UX point of view won't appeal to them. Most likely, stakeholders will respond to points concerning the brand and revenue. In addition to my comment with the brand, point B would be a better thing to mention in my opinion- and great point!
Great video as always Sharon!! I always look forward to seeing your growth and learning from you (: I have a quick question at 11:40 though when you start talking about 'Putting myself in users shoes' (I'm a current UX student so just looking for some clarity). Isn't it usually advised to remind oneself that we are not the user and shouldn't assume that role?
Hey! Sorry for the late reply. Yes, you're absolutely right. Typically you should not assume you are the user. If I had to go back and had more time, I would love to have an interview with a few of the key users of this app. However due to a lack of time, I took a "shortcut" and assumed I was the user for quick empathy insight although it's not the most proper way to do this. Hence later on in my presentation n my "research plan" + "reflections" section, I said if I had more time I would love to personally interview these key users to have that genuine insight instead of taking this "shortcut" due to strict time constraints. My interviewers seemed to understand. Hope this makes sense! You are right! Thank you for this great question :)
@@sharonyeunkim would you happen to know a UX lecturer that used to teach at Parsons? His name is Aaron Fry. He used to teach design at Parsons for 20 years but recently came back to New Zealand and is running the masters in design programme that I’m currently doing
I rebuilt my portfolio again when I watched your usefullllllll video, I have 2 more requests plz: you wrote your notes in google doc and after that, you took a shot screen and put it in Figma but it is not complete photo especially for checkout page , can you share the Google doc file here? I need it to give me a perspective about this part for interview also and how did you do competitive analysis in that limited time, I see you use Craft, what is it? thank you for your kind
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'd love to know how long it takes to do the challenge (research, analysis and hifi prototype). Because it seems a lot of work.
A suggestion: Can you place a still background while you are walking through your Figma file? It is distracting to have an animated gradient background on top of your educational narration. As a viewer, I want to concentrate on your excellent content since it is packed with great information. Good job.
@@sharonyeunkim You don't have to re-upload it. It is nothing too severe but a small detail to consider for future videos. However, if you still decide to re-upload, I appreciate your diligence and openness in responding to your viewers.
@@minhanh0604 for sure! I made it an unlisted video which you can view here :) (link is in my pinned comment in this video) th-cam.com/video/8fgsIu9KUF0/w-d-xo.html
God! Loved this. I'm genuinely a little curious regarding the 'designing high fidelity screens' section of this challenge though. Often I find myself REALLY short on time and I end up editing a screenshot of the website. Are your screens designed from scratch??
The screens are designed 50/50 so some I would reconstruct from scratch however I would screenshot and reuse pieces of the website and maneuver them into the newfound structure that I created for this design
This is amazing. I was wondering where do you find out about competitions like this to get to sign up for one and take part in it? It sounds like an incredible experience and incredibly effective and I am just wanting to know how to find out about this type of stuff to be able to do it.
Thank you for this wonderful review and uploading the file! Your project runthroughs always inspires me to work on my case studies! One question though: I am not quite understanding the purpose of the "research plan" in this design challenge when there are no research being done. Could you explain why they would want a research plan at the end?
I believe the point of the research plan is to formulate how you would further this project if you had more time. To show you are thoughtful about the evolution of the project even beyond the initial presented design :)
This was so helpful, thank you so much for sharing! I noticed the brief said to use IBM's design language but you used Hertz's branding and overall look. What made you choose to do it that way, and was that something they brought up when you presented it to them?
My pleasure! In my opinion, it was still Hertz website and I felt say if I used IBM brand colors and such it would feel quite off. Overall, as long as the website look and feel is accessible and you can adopt whatever design system is in front of you- even if it was “HERTZ” branding, it wouldn’t matter. I feel design language is generally similar across the board as long as it looks professional- so even if I used “IBM”design language, it be more or less too similar to really notice a difference. The branding (more colors) is the thing that makes it noticeably different across company platforms. (Yellow vs blue) And no, they didn’t bring it up at all :) the style I designed it in seemed fine enough so I think they just passed it. :)
How would you overcome mental block of not wanting to spend 9 hours on a project when the statistic likelihood of receiving the job is low regardless of quality? That just seems like an enormous commitment for potentially nothing. I am just getting started and about to begin a bootcamp and I was a bit floored to hear how much time you spent on just an interview project.
I think having a test at least gives you a chance to separate yourself, rather than just questions in an interview. Also a high quality test leaves you likely to get the role.
Hi sharon, currently I'm doing a class on UX/UI design, but my group is finding it tough to make our design stand out in terms of colour and aesthetic. Would you have any tips on how to make our design more innovative? Our current approach is to take inspiration from different features in real world applications eg Airbnb. Thank you!
Hi! Sorry for the late reply. In terms of innovation for UI I believe there is only so much you can do as there have been many avenues that have been explored which you can see on dribbble. However, I would always think very well-thought-out design is always more impressive than an app that may not be as innovative but "prettier". If you are still looking for "innovative" UI, i would just take inspo from dribbble and see what you like best. Doesn't have to be groundbreaking to be acceptable IMO. Just be careful not to be so blindsided and focused on being so "innovative" with the UI to the point that the UI actually becomes distracting to the UX since it's so new and they are not familiar to use it (= more friction = bad UX). Aim to be familiar but new.
this helped me a lot! I'm very happy that you got the job! I just wanted to ask, when they give an assignment to 'redesign' a webpage or screen, should you create the screen from scratch? or how did you do the same webpage. I received a similar task and I tried to do the page from the start! I was wondering if there was another way you did
Great video! But I had to point out the background is very distracting and hurt my eyes while watching it! It also made the content smaller especially on a mobile device. There is your viewer’s feedback!
Hi Sharon! I found your channel yesterday and I love your content. Just a heads up, the word is "competitive", not "competative". I saw you write it like that in another video as well. Hope you don't mind a well intended grammar nazi suscriber :p hehe
Heyy this was super helpful - just a quick question, wouldn't documenting all this take more than 6 hours? :| Or like only the research & design part has to be within 4-6 hours?
I used the “inspect” element on the website. It’s kind of like a code thing if you right click on a website. I suggest to look up a tutorial on how to inspect elements and in the info box, I saw what fonts they use. It’s a hack!
@@sharonyeunkim Bullshit. And you know that. EVERYONE in the field knows this. Putting together the presentation took more than that. Why are you like this?
If you want to get rich, focus on creating value to the market, then the money itself will flow in, Value itself is the symbol of money you are making, a fellow creator,,,,
Wow this is so in-depth thank you so much for sharing your work. It’s given me a lot to think about. Now I’m really re-evaluating all of my case studies. 🥲
I just noticed you also have a background in fashion. I’m coming from a fashion design background and I’ve been freelancing as a fashion photographer for the last 5 years. You’re so inspirational, thank you again!!
🥺🥺🥺 that really means a lot. And thank YOU for watching! Comments like these keep me going. Reach out anytime if you’d like to see anything in particular! I’m on LinkedIn too x
In-depth analysis. 4-6 hours. Does anything sound fishy to you? Is the math mathing up? The girl is bragging, when in reality going about and beyond (spending a week …at least). The result is terrible in the context of UI, and maybe OK in the context of UX. A cheaters work is shit.
Hello! If you found the moving gradient background distracting, I made this video version with a STILL background :) th-cam.com/video/8fgsIu9KUF0/w-d-xo.html (it's a private video, only accessible through this link~)
I wish I have seen this before I struggled with the whole video above 😆
how do u create that moving background? which app are u recording with?
I really want to compliment you on your excellent communication skills throughout, you have a way of explaining your thought process very clearly which definitely is one of the core skills within ux. Great stuff 👌
Thank you so much! Yes I tried to as I want to be transparent in my process to help the audience :) I appreciate the encouragement!
this was so helpful! i love how organized your approach was and you absolutely devoured the interviewer's question :)
GIRRRRRL! You are going places! Love watching all your videos. I love how you explain your thinking, you are so honest and clear. Thank you for sharing and being transparent!
my pleasure! thanks for watching Daniela :D
communication skills is the most importatn thing in design... you explained that so well..
This video helped me land my first UX internship. Thank you for sharing your process! :)
Ahh congratulations!! Best of luck!
Although my eyes are bleeding from that moving background, I watched the entire video. Great content, thanks for sharing!
@22:12 exactly true. That’s how EpicGames got hit with that UX lawsuit and lost millions.
you look like a Disney princess!! amazing work
LOL thanks!! 😆
Great answer to the "upgrade" question. I've have to argue similar cases against "dark patterns" the business would rather prefer.
Thanks for the honesty and genuinely helpful advice!
my pleasure!
Your projects are amazing. I am inspired by your project organization. Everything is so simple and clear, accessible to people.Great job!
Very, very impressive presentation!
I am doing my master in ux and this video was really helpful thank you ❤❤❤
Wow! You were super thorough and detailed in your IBM design challenge! Thanks for sharing! 💜💜💜💜
My pleasure! :)
Excellent answer to the check out trick question! That was an question you got from someone with stakeholder experience, and you handled it very well!
Thank you Ben! That means a lot!!
Honestly, this is brilliant job!
I learned so much about Heuristic Evaluation and how to apply to redesign. Thank you! Question: Do they address the Heuristic Evaluation in the Springboard Bootcamp, or did you learn to do it yourself?
Good work Sharon 🖐🏻 Very Informative !
amazing work and great for those new to UX to follow, thanks
Glad you found it useful!
Really great and helpful presentation Sharon, just a small comment about the background blending colors, it looks interesting and colourful but defocus the viewers from the main content and maybe it's not quite good UX solution, have a great day! :)
Thank you Sharon for all of these valuable sharing. You are pure inspirations us!!🌟🧡
I've been looking for detailed, practical examples of UX design and this is super helpful. Thank you for sharing.
Wow you did amazing!!
Thank you!
love your content !
You are such an inspiration ❤🎉
❤️❤️
너무 도움되는 찐 정보라 구독했습니다. 이렇게 구체적으로 보여주는 step by step walk-through 너무 좋아요. This is exactly the kind of stuff people want to see! Very helpful! Keep it up! Thanks a lot!
My pleasure! 감사합니다~ 🙆🏻♀️
I live in Toronto and I've always been so interested at what it would take to Co-op/work at IBM great video
Thanks!
It helps a lot! Thank you! Following your channel
Great stuff!! You are simply awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on the process
my pleasure!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge through these videos! I am really interested in design but I'm not really familiar with the industry overall so these videos help! Please keep on sharing :D
🙆🏻♀️💗
please do more of these design challenges
When you selected right car and finally came to rent it, you will hear - we do not carry this car currently and will give you an another one. Anyway, you gave a good design guide.
Thanks for this video and the Figma file. I find it quite valuable and it's always interesting to see how other people work 🙃
As for 21:25: I agree with your assessment and I was thinking of other ways to push back on this:
A: It's basically a repetition because the client has already selected the prefered car at an earlier step. If data shows that clients get upsold quite a lot here then perhaps that is an indication that the benefits of a higher upgrade were not obvious enough on an earlier page.
B: If the client insists on having this feature for economic reasons I'd try to make it more obvious to the user, so it's clear that it's an upgrade and not just: 'Let's hope the button gets clicked by accident!'. I would do this by listing all advantages clearly (e.g. 1 extra child seat, premium interior, less road noise. At the moment there is only 'Need a little more room?') and make the button stand out more. All of this to make sure an upgrade by the user was an intended choice.
What do you think?
hey! I agree with your point B more. Considering when talking to stakeholders they are not familiar with UX terms, using a UX point of view won't appeal to them. Most likely, stakeholders will respond to points concerning the brand and revenue. In addition to my comment with the brand, point B would be a better thing to mention in my opinion- and great point!
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS they are so beyond incredibly helpful!
Aww thank you Sandy!!!
Great Job Sharon .... This video will definitely help me in the design challenge phase of the interviews 👍🏻
Thank you so much for sharing these insights!
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Great video as always Sharon!! I always look forward to seeing your growth and learning from you (: I have a quick question at 11:40 though when you start talking about 'Putting myself in users shoes' (I'm a current UX student so just looking for some clarity). Isn't it usually advised to remind oneself that we are not the user and shouldn't assume that role?
Hey! Sorry for the late reply. Yes, you're absolutely right. Typically you should not assume you are the user. If I had to go back and had more time, I would love to have an interview with a few of the key users of this app. However due to a lack of time, I took a "shortcut" and assumed I was the user for quick empathy insight although it's not the most proper way to do this.
Hence later on in my presentation n my "research plan" + "reflections" section, I said if I had more time I would love to personally interview these key users to have that genuine insight instead of taking this "shortcut" due to strict time constraints. My interviewers seemed to understand.
Hope this makes sense! You are right! Thank you for this great question :)
yo thanks for the breakdown Sharon, helps heaps
My pleasure :)
@@sharonyeunkim would you happen to know a UX lecturer that used to teach at Parsons? His name is Aaron Fry. He used to teach design at Parsons for 20 years but recently came back to New Zealand and is running the masters in design programme that I’m currently doing
@@caypasha He definitely sounds familiar! But I have not seen him.
You are Great! Thanks for sharing!
I rebuilt my portfolio again when I watched your usefullllllll video, I have 2 more requests plz: you wrote your notes in google doc and after that, you took a shot screen and put it in Figma but it is not complete photo especially for checkout page , can you share the Google doc file here? I need it to give me a perspective about this part for interview also and how did you do competitive analysis in that limited time, I see you use Craft, what is it? thank you for your kind
Hi, love your informative videos!
Are there any upcoming videos anytime soon?
First comment. Nice video and keep going. Need more videos 🎉🎉👏
Thank you! :)
Thank you for this. I feel like it would've taken me longer though lol
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'd love to know how long it takes to do the challenge (research, analysis and hifi prototype). Because it seems a lot of work.
it was a lot. I'd think 20 hours?
A suggestion: Can you place a still background while you are walking through your Figma file? It is distracting to have an animated gradient background on top of your educational narration. As a viewer, I want to concentrate on your excellent content since it is packed with great information.
Good job.
Sure! Thanks for letting me know. I’ll actually reupload it later today (around 3 pm EST):)
@@sharonyeunkim You don't have to re-upload it. It is nothing too severe but a small detail to consider for future videos. However, if you still decide to re-upload, I appreciate your diligence and openness in responding to your viewers.
@@minhanh0604 for sure! I made it an unlisted video which you can view here :) (link is in my pinned comment in this video) th-cam.com/video/8fgsIu9KUF0/w-d-xo.html
Thank you Sharon, you are angel
God! Loved this. I'm genuinely a little curious regarding the 'designing high fidelity screens' section of this challenge though. Often I find myself REALLY short on time and I end up editing a screenshot of the website. Are your screens designed from scratch??
The screens are designed 50/50 so some I would reconstruct from scratch however I would screenshot and reuse pieces of the website and maneuver them into the newfound structure that I created for this design
also sharing your figma files is creme de la creme
Trying to be transparent when I can :)
This is so great I really enjoyed watching it probably watched it 3 times, Can you please share the file? I really want to see the details.
No worries, I just found it. Thanks
Yeah it was in the description box!!! And thank you for watching! Glad it helped :)))
Hi I was just wondering did you have to recreate all the element from the current website as well?
This is amazing. I was wondering where do you find out about competitions like this to get to sign up for one and take part in it? It sounds like an incredible experience and incredibly effective and I am just wanting to know how to find out about this type of stuff to be able to do it.
It was part of a UX interview
Thank you for this wonderful review and uploading the file! Your project runthroughs always inspires me to work on my case studies! One question though: I am not quite understanding the purpose of the "research plan" in this design challenge when there are no research being done. Could you explain why they would want a research plan at the end?
I believe the point of the research plan is to formulate how you would further this project if you had more time. To show you are thoughtful about the evolution of the project even beyond the initial presented design :)
This was so helpful, thank you so much for sharing! I noticed the brief said to use IBM's design language but you used Hertz's branding and overall look. What made you choose to do it that way, and was that something they brought up when you presented it to them?
My pleasure! In my opinion, it was still Hertz website and I felt say if I used IBM brand colors and such it would feel quite off. Overall, as long as the website look and feel is accessible and you can adopt whatever design system is in front of you- even if it was “HERTZ” branding, it wouldn’t matter. I feel design language is generally similar across the board as long as it looks professional- so even if I used “IBM”design language, it be more or less too similar to really notice a difference.
The branding (more colors) is the thing that makes it noticeably different across company platforms. (Yellow vs blue)
And no, they didn’t bring it up at all :) the style I designed it in seemed fine enough so I think they just passed it. :)
How would you overcome mental block of not wanting to spend 9 hours on a project when the statistic likelihood of receiving the job is low regardless of quality? That just seems like an enormous commitment for potentially nothing. I am just getting started and about to begin a bootcamp and I was a bit floored to hear how much time you spent on just an interview project.
I think having a test at least gives you a chance to separate yourself, rather than just questions in an interview. Also a high quality test leaves you likely to get the role.
Hi sharon, currently I'm doing a class on UX/UI design, but my group is finding it tough to make our design stand out in terms of colour and aesthetic. Would you have any tips on how to make our design more innovative? Our current approach is to take inspiration from different features in real world applications eg Airbnb. Thank you!
Hi! Sorry for the late reply. In terms of innovation for UI I believe there is only so much you can do as there have been many avenues that have been explored which you can see on dribbble. However, I would always think very well-thought-out design is always more impressive than an app that may not be as innovative but "prettier".
If you are still looking for "innovative" UI, i would just take inspo from dribbble and see what you like best. Doesn't have to be groundbreaking to be acceptable IMO. Just be careful not to be so blindsided and focused on being so "innovative" with the UI to the point that the UI actually becomes distracting to the UX since it's so new and they are not familiar to use it (= more friction = bad UX). Aim to be familiar but new.
Thanks alot
this helped me a lot! I'm very happy that you got the job!
I just wanted to ask, when they give an assignment to 'redesign' a webpage or screen, should you create the screen from scratch? or how did you do the same webpage. I received a similar task and I tried to do the page from the start! I was wondering if there was another way you did
You could def reuse elements and screenshot copy and paste them!
@@sharonyeunkim Thank you :) I'm still waiting for their response 🤭
Great video!
But I had to point out the background is very distracting and hurt my eyes while watching it! It also made the content smaller especially on a mobile device.
There is your viewer’s feedback!
Hi Sharon! I found your channel yesterday and I love your content. Just a heads up, the word is "competitive", not "competative". I saw you write it like that in another video as well. Hope you don't mind a well intended grammar nazi suscriber :p hehe
Yup! thanks for letting me know
If I could double like this I would.
Haha!!! 😆
Wait this was the first time you heard about Hertz lolol that's pretty funny
Lol ur talking to someone who never drove a car in their life
@@sharonyeunkim 😂
Hey can you make a video on your salaries as a ux designer
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@@sharonyeunkim omo what happend 😂😂
what is the cost of the badge?
Heyy this was super helpful - just a quick question, wouldn't documenting all this take more than 6 hours? :|
Or like only the research & design part has to be within 4-6 hours?
Yep. There is absolutely no way this took less than 40 hours. Complete horse shit youtube content.
How did you find the exact font for your redesign? It’s the exact font for the website
I used the “inspect” element on the website. It’s kind of like a code thing if you right click on a website. I suggest to look up a tutorial on how to inspect elements and in the info box, I saw what fonts they use. It’s a hack!
can you please give access to this figma file. i just sent you a request.
Were you given a time limit for this challenge?
I mention it was 4-6 hours in this video :)
@@sharonyeunkim Bullshit. And you know that. EVERYONE in the field knows this. Putting together the presentation took more than that. Why are you like this?
how I use the code?
Just type in “SHARONKIM” when you are checking out on the Springboard page, under “Add promotion or code” :)
what is the password to your portfolio?
If you want to get rich, focus on creating value to the market, then the money itself will flow in, Value itself is the symbol of money you are making, a fellow creator,,,,
Hi, I've sent you a collaboration offer to your email. Hope to hear from you soon 😊
That's the First time you heard of Hertz??????? What planet are you from? That's like saying I've never heard of Heinz ketchup.
This is coming from someone who used to not even have a permit and knew absolutely nothing about cars LOL
@@sharonyeunkim Good grief lady. You're like grandma in a young person's body.
really helpful! thank you!
Thank you Caner :-)))
6 hours? 🥲 Fuck I'm so sloooooooooow!!
Wow this is so in-depth thank you so much for sharing your work. It’s given me a lot to think about. Now I’m really re-evaluating all of my case studies. 🥲
I just noticed you also have a background in fashion. I’m coming from a fashion design background and I’ve been freelancing as a fashion photographer for the last 5 years. You’re so inspirational, thank you again!!
Aha! It’s just about improving how you can :) I’m improving too!
🥺🥺🥺 that really means a lot. And thank YOU for watching! Comments like these keep me going. Reach out anytime if you’d like to see anything in particular! I’m on LinkedIn too x
In-depth analysis. 4-6 hours. Does anything sound fishy to you? Is the math mathing up? The girl is bragging, when in reality going about and beyond (spending a week …at least). The result is terrible in the context of UI, and maybe OK in the context of UX. A cheaters work is shit.