I'm here with Heather from Artisan Talent.
We're going to talk about UX Design.
What does UX even stands for?
User Experience.
Say you are out on a web, or you're on your phone and you click on an app or a website
your experience in going through that application is what User Experience is.
Okay cool.
So what is the difference between UX Architect and UX Design?
The design is more on the front-end.
The architecture is behind the scene.
It's like how you are clicking through those wireframes and such to get to the design.
It all connects together.
So, user design is front-end.
User architect is back-end.
Roughly in my mind here.
What are some of the fundamentals that you look for when you're placing someone as a
UX Architect?
Architect, I would say it's nice if they've done something similar in the past.
Maybe they've gone to school that's brought them there or they've just had life experience
to move them into that direction which we see a lot of people maybe our designers and
then move in to architecture or maybe they're developers and then move to this space.
But really understanding wire framing really understanding the architecture behind the
scenes for a website or application that someone is going to use.
There are software that are really common Axure, Balsamiq, OmniGraffle to name a few.
Hang on, let's go slower there.
So can you just give me those again?
What are some of the common big systems?
I mean I'm thinking WorPress but you're obviously not.
What's big here?
Axure would be one.
And these are bigger corporate ones that you would see.
There are smaller ones now and some places don't mind if you use maybe like an Illustrator
or InDesign to do your wire framing.
But when you get into more corporate or larger firms and such, they might have bought the
software and would encourage others to use those.
So Axure, OmniGraffle, Balsamiq would be some of the bigger ones.
(Balsamic like the vinegar) Exactly.
But it's actually a program.
Okay good.
And what kind of experience level do you think if someone wants to become a UX Architect
whether they're fulltime positions or freelance.
What kind of experience are you going for here?
You know some of our clients, they've looked to us to people that have been seasoned than
not so I would say if they've had 3 years of that would be really amazing.
Whether it's high level internship that's been like long period of time with a great
company or someone that just has rolled off of something touched more of an assistant,
more of a coordinator role, and wants to get heavily involved, all the way through experienced
like 10 to 15 year person who's done wire framing, you name it we've seen it.
But as long as they're from there and comfortable, and maybe learning a new program.
There are Artisan clients that are like you've used Axure in the past.
We don't care what you use, maybe you use UXPin, maybe you use Illustrator, I don't
care I just want to see how you do your wire framing, how you put your mapping and prototyping
together to get to the designers and developers to make this happen.
Okay, and so if I want to be a UX Architect, what kind of portfolio am I building up here?
Wow, that is going to include wireframes.
It's going to include prototyping.
I would say some of our clients want to see that top process too.
It could be bubbles, it could be a bunch of post-it notes.
You know how you are taking a concept and idea of how somebody is going to actually
visually see something and make someone click on something and go through that experience.
Starting there, putting it together and mapping it out.
And how will you even have connected to working with the developer or designer.
And if you can show too that but not taking credit for it.
If you can show the end-product, even better.
So a whole nice presentation of that is what we're going to want to see.
Okay cool.
So again, if I want to be a UX Architect and I've built that kind of experience that kind
of portfolio.
What kind of projects are we talking about?
Are we talking about Websites?
Intranet type stuff?
Apps?
I haven't heard of with another name like Balsamiq.
All those three.
All of those.
Any sort of App, websites for sure, intranets.
And this is with corporations.
Large Fortune 500 companies down to smaller organizations, to ad agency - those are all
big players on this.
So everybody in the market is seeking this type of individuals.
(This is like a hot demand) This is very important because everything is digital now.
Everybody is on their mobile devices, whether it's a tablet or a phone or what not.
And these people are really important for that.
Okay, so with that in mind and bearing in mind that UX architect is in demand right
now.
What kind of money can you expect by the hour, by the week, by the month depending on your
experience?
What's kind of a really broad range?
Wow, you put me on the spot on that one.
I would say we're going to go with someone that's more entry level through experienced.
I mean the lowest we've seen is in that 35 to 45 an hour.
Up Infinity.
There's people that can match 60 to 75 mark.
For sure worth every penny.
So somewhere between 25 and 60, 75 dollars per hour depending on your experience.
Right.
Exactly.
Okay, cool.
And obviously we're here, you work for Artisan Talent.
And we want to sort of give people information they can work anywhere.
But what would be the advantage if they actually kind of want to sign up with you guys?
What do you guys do that would make it worth my while to sort of go through you rather
than just, I don't know, reaching out on my own.
You know not all the jobs are posted.
So working with agency like Artisan that is connected for years and decades with some
of the same clients.
We have those relationships.
And we have connections to jobs that you won't find on the internet.
And we're going to be your advocate.
We're going to make you are being presented in the way the clients want to see you.
They're going to want 2 to 5 resumes and portfolios of talents for a certain role and we're going
to show them exactly what they're looking for.
So that gives you a shot.
And if you are turned down, what happens?
We try to get feedback so that I can help you in preparing yourself for another opportunity
that may came through Artisan and we can work on that together.
I would say that gives you an advantage in getting kind of top of the pile and working
with the client that maybe you may have come across, a job you may have not seen.
And we're going to try to get feedback, try to ask questions, try to get your foot in
the door there walk you through that process.
In any other place, you're kind of just on your own.
Whereas here you have somebody helping you along the way.
It does sound like having family, or big brother, or sister who kind of help you through those
parts of process that honestly I think a lot of people do find tricky.
Finding a client, presenting yourself in the right way.
From working in a vacuum to working with the people who really know these stuff.
Yes.
Ask in the hard questions.
And getting ready for it, like I'm not going to hit submit to a client until we have all
these pieces in place.
You know your application, you want to put your best foot forward where they cannot say
no, where they have to talk to you.
That's kind of our goal.
Alright cool, thanks very much.
Thank you.
Let's move on to some of the other different freelance things we can look into.
Great, thanks.