hey everyone i'm aliena and welcome back to my channel today i would like to share three things
that you cannot learn from an online ux design course or a ux design bootcamp for those of you
who are still learning about ux design i hope this video can help you to prepare early and for those
of you who are already working as a ux designer i hope you find this video relatable the first thing
is how to design on the spot what i mean by that it's you going to a zoom meeting and there are
five other people waiting for you and somehow in the middle of the meeting somebody says hey
aliena can you share a screen and then visualize what we just said this happens to me almost every
single day and it's definitely pretty frightening during the first few times well because everyone
is waiting for me and literally looking at my screen wait for me to visualize their design
and you know in a bootcamp or in an online course you won't share your screen while designing
so there's no like social pressure there and my biggest tip for you when you go into this
situation is first don't panic and second don't try to make a perfect design this is not a place
to justify your design skill i just remember this one time where i couldn't find the check icon in
the design system that we have and then somehow in the middle of the meeting i was just like let
me show everyone my perfect ui design skill and how i can design a great check icon from scratch
it was literally just a green circle with a white check icon i don't know why
i just screwed up in the middle so everyone in this meeting room was like waiting for
me for two minutes looking at me trying to shrink down my icon i couldn't make it right
that was so embarrassing yeah so when it comes to sharing your screen in a zoom meeting and try
to visualize all other people and your idea just bring out a wireframe with some placeholder text
that's good enough you can make it perfect after the zone call but not during the zoom calm and
a few other tips for this one first close those wrong tabs and make sure to share the right screen
the second thing happens to me every day if you are using a monitor sharing
a screen from your monitor think about the people who will be you know looking at this
screen and using their phone zoom in and make sure everyone can see the screen
another thing that will definitely happen to you as a ux designer is working within
constraints there are so many constraints and it's absolutely normal to have constraints but the key
is to understand the constraints early on so that you don't waste time designing for nothing
there are a few constraints type that i faced on a daily basis the first one is having no resource
for user testing if your company doesn't provide any resource for user testing then you still need
to have a way to justify your design decisions you can do more research you can see what are other
competitors doing or you can do some internal testings which is pretty much just asking whoever
you know in the company as a mock design interview another type of constraint is engineering
constraint that is an engineer going to you and say that sorry we cannot do that it's absolutely
normal and the best way to do with this constraint is to ask early on don't bring a finished product
after three months of iteration to the engineers and then they say oh sorry i cannot do it
then what have you been working on for the three months make sure you bring them a wireframe or
just an early work and ask them whether they can make it or not it's much better to avoid this kind
of problem early on the third type of constraint is product constraint product constraint is when
leaderships or product owners come to you and say sorry our product has to do this it has to do that
it has to have this button here again it's also always better to know this early on but sometimes
you might be able to argue with them while you are making a design decision now the other
my way to do it is always ask them why we are doing it sometimes we can come up with a better
approach to solve the root problem instead of sticking what they want in their mind
and the fourth one is one that i neglected for a while it is legal constraint i personally don't
know much about laws but apparently if you're designing products for the european market then
there's way stricter laws when it comes to how to design product usually if you are being as
ethical as possible with your design you should be good but there are still few cases where you are
being ethical you think you are doing everything right but there are still few things you need to
twist because of legal reason so just keep that in mind as well the third thing i want to share today
is document your work you won't learn this from a design book camp or from a design course but it's
so important to document your work just imagining you being hired to a design position but the
previous designer left her job so she hand over to you a few design files that are just halfway done
you go into these files everything is everywhere you go to the archive page you just see those
random screens you have no idea what they've tried before and why they did certain design iterations
this has happened to me and i don't want it to happen to you or other people documenting your
work will make your life way easier make other people's life easier level up your career and also
help you so much when it comes to building your design portfolio i actually have a dedicated video
on this topic here so make sure to check it out but in short don't delete everything you've tried
and second don't just put random stuff into the archive page make sure you give a few annotations
on why you tried this approach and why you didn't use this approach again as a ui ux designer
our job is not just on the visual level we are being hired to make design decisions for
our users and our company under design constraints so i hope you find this video helpful if you want
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