Love this, I've been in design now for around 9 years and right now UX seems so bloated with nonsense I'm starting to resent it. We design digital products, let's keep it simple. Also side rant, UX designers who can't do UI, whats that about? Interested to hear your thoughts? :)
Amen. Outcome (e.g. Why? Who? How?) is needed to produce the right output (What?). :) I spoke with a few fellow designers about templates the other day. What I understood from the fellow designers, was that they didn't need templates because 1) they feel the template limits them and 2) they feel they forget to think when they use the template. When designing a product, they felt it was more useful to have examples & inspiration, and possibly a checklist of some questions to consider when prototyping/designing. But no templates were needed... Templates were mainly conceived valuable if something was to be standardized, e.g. a common UI pattern all designers must adhere to.Think "Rulebook" (Template) vs "Playbook" (Examples). Personally, I think we can apply the user-centered design process to many things in life. Understanding who are the users, what are their goals, motivations and fears, and in what context. It's also important to remember that the ones deciding may not be the users, so it's important to try to understand things from the users' mindset (and apply critical thinking as you said :) ). Thanks a lot for yet another great video Mike, and a great channel. Keep doing your awesome work :)
I came across your videos a couple weeks ago and love them. I've been a Visual Interaction Designer for 20 years and you remind me of two UX designers I got to work with from 2007-2010. They didn't treat UX like some complex process. They explained things simply and smartly. Really helped me understand the values of UX and created a comfortable, open atmosphere for us to collaborate within. I've been on some interviews lately where I experienced the opposite.
I'm finding that a lot of employers these days want you to be good at everything. UX design, UI design and ALSO know AngularJs and React. Are there really these amazing hybrid unicorns out there?
I see that on most jobs I'm applying for. It's frustrating. Recruiters tell me when applying for jobs not to worry if I see an item or two on the requirements/qualifications that I'm not versed in. Unfortunately I've had some experiences where that's what hiring managers focus on.
I do UI and UX for mobile games. I also do 2D illustration and animation. In addition to that I can also build some basic responsive UI on Unity (a game engine) and do some basic tasks on Android Studio. I use Photoshop and other Adobe programs like a pro and I can also use Sketch. But is this enough? NO, of course not! I'm missing programming/scripting languages, or advanced 3D skills, or speaking skills, or something else! Speaking skills is always missing for me because obviously being an good artist/designer is no excuse for being an introvert or shy. I gotta be the social butterfly they want to complete their perfect startup. When will people start looking at the damn portfolio and just forget everything else?...
I found it interesting that in one of his videos Mike said something along the lines of he could teach someone how to be a good UX designer over a weekend. But not a visual designer. That takes more time. Which would lead me to believe a visual designer with an understanding and appreciation for UX would be in more demand. However I've found it to be the opposite so far. Most places want people with a UX/UI background that have some visual experience. I know the two senior UX designers I used to work with have had to learn prototyping tools like Axure and InVision in recent positions. Which is not a bad thing by any means. It just seemed skewed to me.
hey, mike thanks for the video just wanted to ask what your thoughts are about the guidelines for UI design from companies such as apple and google. These can be considered the laws for good UI design, UX may not have laws but UI definitely has guidelines. So the whole UX process may not have guidelines but the individual components of the UX process could have guidelines.
This is super helpful, just the clarity I needed, thank you!
I came into this video thinking I'll get less out of it, but gosh this is so me right now, waiting to start. Thanks for the positive nudge Mike
Love this, I've been in design now for around 9 years and right now UX seems so bloated with nonsense I'm starting to resent it. We design digital products, let's keep it simple. Also side rant, UX designers who can't do UI, whats that about? Interested to hear your thoughts? :)
Amen. Outcome (e.g. Why? Who? How?) is needed to produce the right output (What?). :)
I spoke with a few fellow designers about templates the other day. What I understood from the fellow designers, was that they didn't need templates because 1) they feel the template limits them and 2) they feel they forget to think when they use the template. When designing a product, they felt it was more useful to have examples & inspiration, and possibly a checklist of some questions to consider when prototyping/designing. But no templates were needed... Templates were mainly conceived valuable if something was to be standardized, e.g. a common UI pattern all designers must adhere to.Think "Rulebook" (Template) vs "Playbook" (Examples).
Personally, I think we can apply the user-centered design process to many things in life. Understanding who are the users, what are their goals, motivations and fears, and in what context. It's also important to remember that the ones deciding may not be the users, so it's important to try to understand things from the users' mindset (and apply critical thinking as you said :) ).
Thanks a lot for yet another great video Mike, and a great channel. Keep doing your awesome work :)
I came across your videos a couple weeks ago and love them. I've been a Visual Interaction Designer for 20 years and you remind me of two UX designers I got to work with from 2007-2010. They didn't treat UX like some complex process. They explained things simply and smartly. Really helped me understand the values of UX and created a comfortable, open atmosphere for us to collaborate within. I've been on some interviews lately where I experienced the opposite.
I'm finding that a lot of employers these days want you to be good at everything. UX design, UI design and ALSO know AngularJs and React. Are there really these amazing hybrid unicorns out there?
Jairo Cuadra yes. They either get paid a shit ton at big companies or run their own product.
I see that on most jobs I'm applying for. It's frustrating. Recruiters tell me when applying for jobs not to worry if I see an item or two on the requirements/qualifications that I'm not versed in. Unfortunately I've had some experiences where that's what hiring managers focus on.
I do UI and UX for mobile games. I also do 2D illustration and animation. In addition to that I can also build some basic responsive UI on Unity (a game engine) and do some basic tasks on Android Studio. I use Photoshop and other Adobe programs like a pro and I can also use Sketch. But is this enough? NO, of course not! I'm missing programming/scripting languages, or advanced 3D skills, or speaking skills, or something else! Speaking skills is always missing for me because obviously being an good artist/designer is no excuse for being an introvert or shy. I gotta be the social butterfly they want to complete their perfect startup.
When will people start looking at the damn portfolio and just forget everything else?...
I found it interesting that in one of his videos Mike said something along the lines of he could teach someone how to be a good UX designer over a weekend. But not a visual designer. That takes more time. Which would lead me to believe a visual designer with an understanding and appreciation for UX would be in more demand. However I've found it to be the opposite so far. Most places want people with a UX/UI background that have some visual experience. I know the two senior UX designers I used to work with have had to learn prototyping tools like Axure and InVision in recent positions. Which is not a bad thing by any means. It just seemed skewed to me.
hey, mike thanks for the video just wanted to ask what your thoughts are about the guidelines for UI design from companies such as apple and google. These can be considered the laws for good UI design, UX may not have laws but UI definitely has guidelines. So the whole UX process may not have guidelines but the individual components of the UX process could have guidelines.
This is so accurate! Thank you.
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