How I got a design job at Uber (Take Home Assignment)
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
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A look into how approached the take home assignment given to me by Uber. I ultimately got the job so I wanted to share my approach and process in case it helps you in a future job application :)
If you're new here, hi! I'm Femke and I'm a product designer at a large tech company, making videos about design and research. On the side I co-host a podcast, travel and enjoy cooking.
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this has been THE MOST helpful video in building my portfolio. No one on youtube goes in depth of how they actually go through a project and talk about their thoughts behind each decision. Thank you so much!!!
I couldnt agree more with Haejin - very real world and so helpful.
Absolutely agreed! I have watched it many times and paused the video just to read all the texts. Hopefully, there are more of these in the future!
Totally agree!
I absolutely loved this! Not common these days to see designers explaining the whole process!
This is exactly the type of content i love, I'm a UX designer and i find this presentation really awesome, thats how you present a project!
Hey Femke,
Just wanted to tell you that I got my first UX Designer job at a product-based company. I applied all of the methods you told me in this video and It was bang on. They loved everything. This is a heartfelt thank you from a person who changed his career from QA to Designing in his early 30's. I was applying for most of the companies but there were always some flaws. But this time I worked on those & it went smooth like butter. Keep making such contents and keep growing.
Thank you for the guidance
Hey Anurag - congratulations!! That is amazing I'm so happy for you. Well done putting in the hard work and all the best!
Only if more designers were willing to show their actual raw process. This was the best UI/UX video ever
This is really useful! Love how you focused on the process rather than getting caught up in making a fancy UI
That "Trade Offs" section is brilliant! I'm taking notes to include that in future project write ups.
That was awesome to see your whole process! Thanks for sharing so much. I'm really excited about your UA-cam channel!!! Congrats on launching it.
GREAT VIDEO ! I truly loved how you walked us through your whole process, super well structured and informative. I am totally inspired to get my own design challenge assignment done now :)
This was super helpful, it's rare to see these videos on the whole process when it comes to design tasks and it was very informative on what is expected when it comes to a take home design assignment!
Oh wow, I love this, thank you for sharing!
Writing down notes and I'll definitely come back to this video in the future.
This is a brilliant and super helpful video!! Like the minimal but clear way you present the main design thoughts behind the idea. That's easily overlooked but essential. Thanks for sharing your experience generously!!
I loved how focused you have been while working on the whole flow and process. The user flow you made up sums up your strong hold on the UX
Thank you, Femke! I have a design assignment tomorrow and I can't thank you enough for helping me gain some ideas on presenting the solution.
This is great. I was clearly able to see some mistakes that I make while thinking through the whole process. I especially love the part where you draw how the user feels, like really empathising with the user. Great work!
Amazing! Im an aspiring UX designer about to finish my undergrad degree and Im stoked to have stumbled upon your channel! Really interesting and practical content and simply presented :) Thanks
Thank you for posting this. I was extremely helpful since at the moment I am working on my home assignment. Thanks again!
thanks. I am a post-PM designer. seeing a lot of amateur design process videos. yours is really clear and practical.
Wow. This is great. One of the most useful ux related videos I have seen lately. I am junior in the field trying to get more real world experience and that absolutely helped me. Thanks for sharing!
that was a very useful video and one of the best i watched about ux projects atm. thank u alot. not many youtubers designers explain every detail of their project like that and i liked how you really focused on the problem instead of just making a beautiful interface.
I found this extremely useful Femke, thank you. I found it very interesting that Uber responded well to your presentation being focussed on empathy and a deep focus on the user's perspective rather than the UI. It encourages me to believe that I could also get into the industry in a company as prestigious as Uber with a skillset devoted to UX rather than UI and expert software skills. (:
I love Femke's content because she gets right down into the good stuff without click baiting people. This could've easily become a 10-minute life lesson with a bit of design thinking lecturing, but she made it actually about the assignment and only that. Keep up the good work!
This channel is genuinely a gem 🙏 shoutout to charli for introducing such an awesome design channel
Thank you so much Femke for this video! Very inspiring and provides so many great tips on the process. I rarely see such substantive and deep share of the UX process. And it helped me so much to understand what is the strategy and how much must be well thought through, before any shiny UIs are made. Thanks again, it is very helpful in learning about UX!
Thank you so much for sharing! This not only solidifies that this is what I want to do, but also gives me hope that I can do it too!
This is one of the best explanations of UX process I have ever found! It is because you show everything in detail and explain it very well. I will be very interested in more videos like this :) Thank you!
Big shout-out to you Femke! Thank you for sharing the deets about your Product Design journey. Your approach to thinking is very insightful and gives me hope as a Junior. Keep up the awesome work! :)
I love this! Thank you so much Femke! This is awesome and learned a lot from your take home assignment!
Super valuable to hear what kind of design exercise was given and more importantly how you approached it as a Product Designer! Good stuff Femke. :)
I used to give s about empathizing process but now I see it as a supplement to the user context and goals. adding a lot of illegible but important details to the thinking.
Awesome video! So great to get such deep insight into your process. Thanks so much! Looking forward to more of your videos.
You are amazing! I was in the last round of interview and received a take home design assignment. As a new grad, I was freaking out about how to present everything and I found this video. It was tremendously helpful and I followed the design process and got the job! They were impressed by my presentation, thank you so much for sharing!
I'm watching this from a strategists point of view and getting new insights into the design process. thank you so much for sharing.
I enjoyed being walked through how you did it. Thank You.
The whole process was awesome. It helped me in approaching a design assignment. Hope you will create more helpful videos like this!
I hate the fact that I didn't find this video much earlier ~ Thanks for your generous sharing!
As a soon-to-be graduate, this was really cool! Thank you so much for sharing your process.
I cannot even start to express the gratitude I feel right now for this video. Thank you so much for taking the time and providing so much detail. This is beyond helpful. Fingers crossed I do well on my take-home-challenge I am currently working in!
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your take home!
i just wanna thank you again for creating such helpful and deep content, you cant imagine how grateful we are and how much you are helping us to make progress in our careers!
I'm so glad to hear that! Thank you so much :)
Thank you this was so good and gave me great insight into the design assignment. So glad I came across your channel!
this was incredible. I can't believe you did all of this within 8 hrs including making the prototype.
Great video! Thanks for sharing! So cool to see all of your process.
this was a perfect video to understand what people hiring might ask for, thank you so much! incredibly helpful :)
Hi Femke, I found this video very helpful. You have shown that user goals, restraints, user journey map require the most time dedication I am working on a project right now and due to time constraint I was rushing through these stages. But because of your video, it made me stop and think about what I am doing wrong. So, Thank you Femke!!
Wow, thank you so much for sharing. Very useful information as I am just learning all about UX! Couldn't be more excited to get these processes going!
This was very very helpful, thank you for sharing your design experience so in depth and detailed.
Thanks for sharing such an insightful video femke!!!
A must watch for people interested(beginners) in UX.
Shout out to make many more videos like this!!!
Great channel! People who share their experience with others are amazing.
Fantastic, loved it, very informative and concise
Thank you very much! The explanation was clear and helpful.
Most detailed video......i love it!! pls upload vids like this.
Hi Femke, Your UX process and approach, Love it! i follow kinda same approach. :)
This was SO helpful! Thank you! Most videos give an overview of how to tackle the process but never give an actual real life example we can follow, which is so much more helpful in understanding the process. If you're able to post more videos like these, that would be awesome. Thank you again!
Yay you're welcome! Glad it was helpful.
Brilliant work Femke!! It's really helpful for my current interview. Thank you❤
Glad it was helpful!
This is super helpful! Thank you, Femke!
This was really helpful. thanks, Femke
Hey Femke,
As promised back on another video, and I'm
Glad I found your channel.
I'm studying with your videos this days, taking notes because it's contains a lot of information, and I don't want to miss it.
Your content is the king, and the way you put it is amazing.
As I comment in the last video about making a video on journey map, please think about it.
Have a awesome day.
Thank you so much!! I just love this!! You got one more fans fem!
I al impressed. Gor to know you yesterday via flux and went over to check your video’s. This one will actually help me a lot in preparing and presenting a UX workshop at a client of me. Thank you for sharing this.
About to start a homework assignment, actually! This is a huge help. Thanks for sharing!
same here!
Thank you so much, Femke! such a useful and inspiring video
Thank you so much for sharing this, Femke! I had to do a 24h design challenge and your approach has helped me a lot when solving the challenge! I got accepted for a product design internship this summer and they told me that I've "rocked the challenge"!!! Thank you so much again! I appreciate all the hard work and dedication that you put into your content!
That is amazing news Otilia, congratulations!!!! So happy to hear this, good luck with the internship!
thanks for sharing your experience and approach, very inspiring!
Thanks for sharing your process! Really insightful!!!
Thank you for this. Will follow this type of process. Really useful. ❤️
I really liked your process. It was very clear and up to the point.
Thank you so much for this video! It reminds me of one of the take home assignments that I did, but mine was so open and I didn't make enough constraints and ended up spending waaaay too much time on it. The stakeholders were impressed though, so that's good. :) Other than that, I'm glad to see that I think in a similar way as someone who works at Uber :D I wish there were more videos about UX process like this.
Wow...this is VERY insightful!! I've also been given take-home assignment but they were focused more on the UI side as the UX process goes deeper. But thanks for sharing!!
Great video. Thank you so much! I loved learning about your thought process.
Glad to hear it!
This is amazing..Thanks for sharing such a valuable info..You're the best
Thank you for sharing! It's really interesting to see the process and points to consider when designing something.
It would be great to see a video of UX/UI design books recommendations :)
I just loved the way you presented this video and thanks a ton for posting this informative video and I am very excited to admit the fact that I got a job as UX Designer because of you and without any second thoughts the credit goes to you. Love your smile :) and your content. Please keep making more videos.
@@femkedesign Thanks Femke. Now I started watching all of your videos :)
This is great. I did a more elaborate UI to a design test recently and all I got is a thank you for improving one of their feature and giving them insightful feedback. They chose someone else. This was for a Kickstarter scheme job in the UK which is for 16-24yo.
That's really unfortunate! This is why I think it's super important that the design assignment not be directly related to the company so that they can't actually use it as free work.
A must watch for anyone applying to places like Uber or Shopify
I really really like your video, it shows so much about actual design work!!
Thanks! That's the goal :)
Thank you for the detailed explanation through your design process!!!
You are so welcome!
i stumbled upon this video a year later and i couldnt thank you more! i just graduated as a product designer and i really want to get into ui/ux industry. thanks for the process!
Femke / Design UA-camr thank you!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
thank you for this! not a lot of ux youtubers actually go into the details of their presentations
This is super helpful. I am potentially doing 2 take home challenges for new roles and seeing a worked example has given me confidence to do these. THANK YOU THANK YOU 💙
You got this!
Thanks Femke, really helpful! I'm currently doing a take home assignment. Hopefully it goes well :)
Thanks a lot for this! Helped my finish my design task much quickly.
So glad to hear that!
I have a home assignment before but don't know how to present it. Now I got some idea from this video !!! Thank You!
Glad it was helpful!
This was a great insight to how to design specifically for the user. Could you possibly make a video on how to actually conduct user research and what questions to ask while doing this?
Love the videos and the podcast. :)
It's amazing how you did all that in 8 hours!!! I feel it would take me a week...
Indeed it's a very helpful video as other ones in your channel that together tell your story as a designer. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Femke: "I didn't get too carried away with creating a visual language or UI design..."
wireframe: looks perfect
and that's one of the reasons you got the job, you're really really good! Congrats!
Thank you Femke. This really helped me in my take home assignment.
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for sharing this video!!! It is so hard to find videos where you can see the processes of creating the projects.
I wish i saw this earlier. thanks for this helpful video!
Thank you so much this was super helpful!!
Really awesome video Femke!
after watching this I rlly wanna say love youuuuuu , Thanks for sharing :)
Wow very helpful! Thanks for sharing this.
You're awesome! Thanks for this. It was super useful.
This is gold! Thank you
I loved it, thank you for sharing
bless your calming soul brother
Thank you ❤️, you've been a wonderful help .
You are so welcome :)
THIS was awesome. thank you!!
Wow ! This is super helpful ❤
im a cs student probably going into coding, these design videos are really interesting, befriending your designers sounds like a really smart move lol