Honest weekly conversations about UX design career, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things UX. Ioana and Anfisa together have 20 years of experience in the UX field and trying to share their main lessons to help anyone transitioning to design overcome the fears. Want to support us? Sign up to get access to exclusive locked episodes for $0.99/mo https://anchor.fm/honestuxtalks/subscribe To request the next topic DM us on Instagram: 🗂 instagram.com/honest_ux_talks 👩💻 instagram.com/anfisign 👩🏻💻 instagram.com/uxgoodies
In this episode:
• What are the common reasons for which stakeholders pushback on the design vision?
• What are the tips and tricks for navigating pushbacks?
• What were the toughest moments in your career when you got push back from stakeholders despite giving your best set of arguments?
Mentioned in this episode:
"Articulating Design Decisions" book
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In this episode:
• What to do if you feel you are not good enough as a designer in the beginning of your career?
• What are the factors influencing the feeling of being an impostor?
• Tips and advice form Anfi and Ioana on how they dealt with impostor syndrome.
• How does company culture Iinfluence your response to impostor syndrome?
Mentioned in this episode:
"Culture map" book
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Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll in Ioana's AI course "**AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career"** on Interaction Design Foundation with a 25% discount.
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Links:
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April 22 is Earth day, which is great timing for this episode 🌎 🌿
In this episode:
What does sustainability mean in digital design?
• How can sustainability principles be applied to digital design? What is carbon-friendly design?
• Is there a difference between life-centered design and sustainable design?
• How can we introduce sustainability to our stakeholders and position it as a value?
• What are the current sustainability regulations? Who would be the quick early adopters in the industry? How can we expect this to become a narrative in smaller companies?
• How can sustainability evolve into a global movement, where everybody prioritises sustainability in their design process?
Resources:
Upcoming Course "Become a Sustainable UX Designer"
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Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll in Ioana's AI course "**AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career"** on Interaction Design Foundation with a 25% discount.
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Links:
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In this episode:
• What to do if you consider quitting design industry and feel less motivated as a designer? How do you know it is time for something new?
• What to do if you feel burned out from your design role?
• What are alternative career paths for designers?
Resources:
Episode with Hang Xu on "How to negotiate salaries in UX design"
Reddit thread mentioned in the episode
Matej Latin's article "Why designers quit"
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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This Episode's sponsor:
Mobbin is the world's largest mobile & web design reference library where you can find practical design inspiration from real apps that solve real design problems. Don't forget to mention Honest UX Talks, if you register at Mobbin.
In this episode:
• How to showcase your value as UX designer when you are just starting out?
• How to approach interviews with potential companies as an intern? What questions to ask during the the interviewing process with potential companies?
• What are the strategies or ways how to identify opportunities for yourself as an intern in the company? What are the steps you should take as an intern to make the best our of your internship?
• How to overcome impostor syndrome and build your confidence as a designer?
Resources:
"The first 90 days" book
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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Links:
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This Episode's sponsor:
Mobbin is the world's largest mobile & web design reference library where you can find practical design inspiration from real apps that solve real design problems. Don't forget to mention Honest UX Talks, if you register at Mobbin.
In this episode:
• Why accessibility is sometimes overlooked when designing?
• What companies are mature in terms of accessibility?
• How to build the business case for accessibility?
• What is the future of AI and its effect on accessibility?
This episode's guest:
Anna's Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility course
People in the accessibility field to follow:
Stef Walter, Christina Mallon (She/her), Alexis Lucio (They/Them), Soren Hamby (They/Them), Shell Little (She/Her) Jennifer Zhang (She/Her), Crystal Preston Watson (She/Her), Yue Ou, Deepika Raj, Eric Bailey, Doug Kim, Matt May
Resources:
Microsoft joins Be My Eyes app
Building an accessibility program course
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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Links:
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This Episode's sponsor:
Mobbin is the world's largest mobile & web design reference library where you can find practical design inspiration from real apps that solve real design problems.
In this episode:
• Why is it always valuable to negotiate? How being a better negotiator makes you a better designer?
• In what ways salary negotiation determines your career trajectory?
• How to understand company’s negotiation philosophy and leverage it? At which point during the hiring process does negotiation happen?
• Can junior designers negotiate their salary?
• How to know what’s the right salary for your position? What is the best medium for the negotiation? How to compare job offers?
• Are people afraid to negotiate because they are afraid of their offer being rescinded? Does it really happen?
This episode's guest:
Check out these courses:
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Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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In this episode:
• How to handle relationships and team work in ambiguous environment?
• How documentation and workshops can help to deal with ambiguity?
• What learning a foreign language and working in ambiguous environments have in common?
• Why is it so important to identify key stakeholders in your project?
• How to stay sane in ambiguous environments?
Check out these courses:
Anfi's Job Hunting Community
Enroll on Anfisa's "Job hunting strategy course | early sign up"
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
❓Next topic ideas:
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In this episode:
• What was parental leave like?
• What are the biggest fears before going to parental leave? Which of them turned out to be real?
• What does an effective support system look like?
• What to do during the parental leave to continue to stay relevant so when you get back you can still perform. How can you ease that anxiety of coming back?
Check out these courses:
Anfi's Job Hunting Community
Enroll on Anfisa's "Job hunting strategy course | early sign up"
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
❓Next topic ideas:
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Links:
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Jakob Nielsen is joining us for a special discussion about AI!
Questions we are going to delve into in this episode:
• How do you see the state of AI in design right now? Are there any new themes or is history repeating itself? • Will AI eventually replace designers? • Are there any specific parts of design process or design roles that are threatened by AI the most? • What would you advise designers to stay relevant and competitive in design field in the upcoming years? • What we should worry about when it comes to AI? What we should be excited about? • What tool should designers start with, if they never been exposed to AI?
Resources mentioned in this episode:
uxtigers.com - This website is the home for Jakob Nielsen's new articles about UX and usability, often about the intersection of UX and AI.
Check out these courses:
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
Enroll on Anfisa's "Job hunting strategy course | early sign up"
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Links:
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