Plans Head of UX, Jason Mesut has also been doing his bit to quell the UX talent drought. His talk to UX newbies at General Assembly on what employers are looking for, has also been a hit online (view on Slideshare). On top of this, Jason has been working with some other leaders in the field to develop a course on digital Experience Design for Hyper Island.

1. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Sell yourselves better
Understanding yourself and what employers look
for when hiring UX talent
7 January 2013
Jason Mesut
Head of User Experience
Plan

2. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Sell yourselves better
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio

3. Introducing...
Sell yourselves better
Jason Mesut
Jason Mesut
Head of User Experience
Head of User Experience
at Plan heads up our Product Service
Jason
Strategy and User Experience
Management team here at Plan.
1. Front-end innovation
In addition to his extensive consulting
2. Design management
experience he is a renowned industry
speaker and UX community leader.
@jasonmesut
slideshare.com/jasonmesut
plan.bz
betteruxportfolios.com

4. Sell yourselves better
Previously
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

5. Sell yourselves better
Some of my clients

6. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Sell yourselves better
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio

7. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
What I look for*
1. Passion
2. Curiosity
3. Design skills
4. Critical thinking
5. Appreciation of other disciplines
6. Understanding of an ever-widening domain
7. Self awareness
8. Professional attitude
* I am on a hiring break after my last two roles (and this was off the top of my head this morning)
** Vision, curiosity, divergent thinking, iteration and sweating the details

8. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Sell yourselves better
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio

9. Sell yourselves better
Perfect EA poster
Created in 2005 for Euro IA so needs an update

10. Sell yourselves better
Soft skills

11. Sell yourselves better
Body metaphor

12. Sell yourselves better
Profile wheels

13. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
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

14. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
Insight and
big picture
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture

15. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
User
Interface
craft
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture

16. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
Conceptual,
design, feel
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture

17. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
Analysis,
rigour, logic
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture

18. Sell yourselves better
Provenance
Industrial design
Design Device interface
strategy design
ExS
Experience
Strategy
Business
consulting,
Marketing
IxD
Interaction
Design
Business
strategy
Software
design
Market
research
Web
design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
Design Library
research science
Psychology
HCI

19. Models as drawn by team members at RMA

20. Models as drawn by team members at RMA

21. Models as drawn by team members at RMA

22. Sell yourselves better
Have a go
Name and date
Jason
Your name
7 Jan 2014
Date
Understand your shape
Map yourself against the different
dimensions
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
Draw a shape
Fill out the wheel
UR
User
Research
www.plan.bz
IA
Information
Architecture

23. Sell yourselves better
UX double diamond
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IA
Information
Architecture
VL
Visual
Language
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
Developed at RMA, currently being evolved at Plan
ID
Information
Design
MG
Motion
Graphics
A work in
progress

24. Sell yourselves better
UX layers
What user
perceives
Visual Language
Little d
UI
Motion Graphics
Information Design
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
User Research
Experience Strategy
RMA’s disciplines of User Experience
Big D
UX

25. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Sell yourselves better
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio

26. Sell yourselves better
Portfolio
See more at: betteruxportfolios.com
1. Portfolio rant
2. Portfolio tips handout
3. Sell yourself better presentation
@jasonmesut
slideshare.com/jasonmesut
plan.bz

27. Come together - bridging the physical-digital divide
We join the dots
www.plan.bz