Sell yourselves better: What a UX employer looks for
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A presentation I pulled together for General Assembly's UX Design Immersive course in London. I pulled the presentation together in a morning from some old and emerging thinking. Hoping to progress soon, so any feedback greatly received.
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Sell yourselves better: What a UX employer looks for
- 1. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive Understanding yourself and what employers look for when hiring UX talent 2 April 2014 Jason Mesut Head of User Experience Plan Sell yourselves better
- 2. ! My background What I look for Profiling Portfolio ! Sell yourselves better
- 3. Sell yourselves better Head of User Experience at Plan ! ! @jasonmesut slideshare.com/jasonmesut slideshare.com/planstrategic plan.bz betteruxportfolios.com Jason Mesut
- 4. Sell yourselves better Industrial Design Brunel ! ! In-house Yell.com (Yellow Pages) ! Management/IT consultancy PA Consulting ! User-centred design / research consultancy Flow (now Foolproof) ! Digital design marketing consultancy / agency LBi The Team RMA Consulting Previously
- 5. Sell yourselves better Some of my clients
- 7. ! My background What I look for Profiling Portfolio ! Sell yourselves better
- 8. What I’ve always looked for* Empathy Critical thinking Self awareness Professionalism UnderstandingCuriosity Design skillsPassion
- 10. ! Curiosity Divergent ideation Convergent concepting Making tangible Iteration Graft of craft ! ! Design skills
- 13. ! Ever widening domain Ability to reassure Ability to flip perspective Build confidence ! ! ! ! Understanding
- 14. ! Recognition of others Respect of value Respect in conflict Balanced empathy ! ! ! ! Empathy
- 15. ! Ever widening domain Ability to flip perspective Hold on to some constants ! ! ! ! ! Self awareness
- 16. ! Cynical optimism Probing popular rhetoric Seeing possibilities Foreseeing challenges ! ! ! Critical thinking
- 18. ! My background What I look for Profiling Portfolio ! Sell yourselves better
- 19. ! Soft skills determine how you think, make and interact with others ! Profiling
- 20. Sell yourselves better Perfect EA poster Created in 2005 for Euro IA so needs an update
- 21. Sell yourselves better Soft skills
- 22. Sell yourselves better Body metaphor
- 24. Sell yourselves better Profile wheels
- 25. ! User Experience is made up of a mix of disciplines, practices and titles. ! Profiling
- 26. ! Understanding your shape and how you want to develop is really useful throughout your career ! Profiling
- 27. Sell yourselves better UX quadrants: 2005 - 2013 ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture Evolved from an Adaptive Path model and in use at LBi, The Team, and RMA
- 28. Sell yourselves better UX quadrants ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture Insight and big picture
- 29. Sell yourselves better UX quadrants ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture User Interface craft
- 30. Sell yourselves better UX quadrants ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture Conceptual, design, feel
- 31. Sell yourselves better UX quadrants ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture Analysis, rigour, logic
- 32. Sell yourselves better Provenance ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture Industrial design Business consulting, Marketing HCI Psychology Software design Web design Business strategy Market research Design research Library science Design strategy Device interface design
- 33. Models as drawn by team members at RMA
- 34. Models as drawn by team members at RMA
- 35. Models as drawn by team members at RMA
- 36. Sell yourselves better Have a go Understand your shape Map yourself against the different dimensions Your name Date UR User Research ExS Experience Strategy IA Information Architecture IxD Interaction Design www.plan.bz Name and date Draw a shape Fill out the wheel UR User Research ExS Experience Strategy IA Information Architecture IxD Interaction Design Jason 7 Jan 2014
- 37. Sell yourselves better UX double diamond ExS Experience Strategy IxD Interaction Design UR User Research IA Information Architecture VL Visual Language MG Motion Graphics ID Information Design A work in progress Developed at RMA, currently being evolved at Plan
- 38. Sell yourselves better UX layers RMA’s disciplines of User Experience Visual Language Motion Graphics Information Design Interaction Design Experience Strategy User Research Information Architecture What user perceives Big D Little d UX UI
- 39. ! My background What I look for Profiling Portfolio ! Sell yourselves better
- 40. Sell yourselves better See more at: betteruxportfolios.com ! 1. Portfolio rant 2. Portfolio tips handout 3. Sell yourself better presentation ! ! @jasonmesut slideshare.com/jasonmesut plan.bz Portfolio
- 41. Come together - bridging the physical-digital divide We join the dots www.plan.bz