Career-Building Advice for UX Designers

•  Design Community has Grown & is Accessible

Look around you. There are so many webinars, design meet-ups and virtual interactions. Grab these opportunities to learn from experts in different domains and industries. Look out for mentors at your own workplace too. Both kinds of mentoring can help to speed the learning process and provide moral support. 

Always seek feedback from mentors. Do not be afraid to ask basic questions like a ux designer job description, how to become a UX designer, UX interview questions, product design vs UX design, how long does it take to become a UI designer and so on. 

You can also learn from books, online resources, case studies shared by other designers. If you wish to be a product designer you can take a second look at all the apps that are around, see how you can improve on them or you can take up a project on the side. Design assignments and challenges posed by hiring organizations are other instruments of learning.

• ‘Do and Learn’ Should be Your Mantra

“Start doing side projects. There are so many problem statements, something that we encounter daily. Start working on them, get feedback from people, iterate on the solution, look up Google, go through what other designers have done, where they have done better than you…” stresses Vasudha.

An important part of career-planning includes the building of a design portfolio. Make sure your design portfolio is complete, with sketches, wireframes, screenshots, photos of the finished product, and why not? … a picture of the team too. If there are portfolio information sessions held by design schools, participate actively to improve your understanding of what hiring managers look for.