Ux Fundamentals: Career In Ux

Get practical insight on starting your career as a UX designer from a seasoned professional.

What you'll learn
Learn the nature of work of a UX designer
Decipher various job roles in UX
Core skills and methods designers use on a regular basis
Popular design and research tools for the job
Soft skills useful in design
Recommended learning resources
Practical tips on building your portfolio and searching for a job
Requirements
No experience or prior knowledge needed.
Description
Get practical insight on starting your career as a UX designer. As there are not many academic opportunities to learn about UX design and many of them focus on the theoretical design process, this course provides actionable knowledge for you to learn about working as a UX Designer, as well as tips on how to make your first steps in the industry.How UX Designers workLearn about many different job roles and specialisations, as well as the context of work of a UX Designer. There are many influences in the daily design work, both in an in-house team and agency-side. Learn what those influences are and how different specialisations are involved within the whole length of a model design process.The skills to masterUX Design is quite a complex job role, because in every project in every organisation you may need to tap into different skills. Because it is a job primarily based on collaborating with other people, I want to show you not only the methods of working or tools to use, but also soft skills that will help you work out various design problems.Kick-start your careerWhen I started in the industry, I had to figure everything by myself - which books or blogs to read, how to build my first design portfolio. I’d like you to build on the knowledge I gathered myself and with the help of other designers, and get to know high-quality books, publications and podcasts that will help you grow and stay on top of the game. You will also be able to pick up some ideas for your first portfolio and practical tips on how to build it to impress recruiters.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Intro to UX

Lecture 3 Overview of the design process

Section 2: Design jobs

Lecture 4 Labelling the job

Lecture 5 Agency-side UX

Lecture 6 In-house UX teams

Section 3: The Design Process

Lecture 7 Problem discovery

Lecture 8 Analysis and mapping

Lecture 9 Architecture and design

Section 4: Design skills

Lecture 10 Usability principles

Lecture 11 Research tools

Lecture 12 Design tools

Lecture 13 Soft skills in UX

Section 5: Recommended content

Lecture 14 Worth a read

Lecture 15 Blogs and podcasts

Section 6: Getting a job

Lecture 16 Your first projects

Lecture 17 UX designer's portfolio

Lecture 18 Applying for a job

Aspiring UX Designers,PMs and Developers who want to understand the basics of UX Design,IT Recruiters,Managers of digital products who want to introduce UX practice to their organisations