Honest UX Talks Anfisa Bogomolova & Ioana Teleanu
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Honest weekly conversations about UX design career, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things UX. Ioana and Anfisa together have 20 years of experience in the UX field and trying to share their main lessons to help anyone transitioning to design overcome the fears.
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#101 Am I good enough?
In this episode:
• What to do if you feel you are not good enough as a designer in the beginning of your career?
• What are the factors influencing the feeling of being an impostor?
• Tips and advice form Anfi and Ioana on how they dealt with impostor syndrome.
• How does company culture Iinfluence your response to impostor syndrome?
Mentioned in this episode:
"Culture map" book
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll in Ioana's AI course "**AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career"** on Interaction Design Foundation with a 25% discount.
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Links:
🎓 Into UX design online course by Anfisa
🎓 Domestika course Create a Learning Strategy by Ioana
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#100 Sustainable UX Design w/Jonas Thorsten
April 22 is Earth day, which is great timing for this episode 🌎 🌿
In this episode:
What does sustainability mean in digital design?
• How can sustainability principles be applied to digital design? What is carbon-friendly design?
• Is there a difference between life-centered design and sustainable design?
• How can we introduce sustainability to our stakeholders and position it as a value?
• What are the current sustainability regulations? Who would be the quick early adopters in the industry? How can we expect this to become a narrative in smaller companies?
• How can sustainability evolve into a global movement, where everybody prioritises sustainability in their design process?
Resources:
Jonas Thorsten's Linkedn
Jonas Thorsten's website
Sustainable UX Network
Upcoming Course "Become a Sustainable UX Designer"
SUX Podcast
Jonas Thorsten's talks
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll in Ioana's AI course "**AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career"** on Interaction Design Foundation with a 25% discount.
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Links:
🎓 Into UX design online course by Anfisa
🎓 Domestika course Create a Learning Strategy by Ioana
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#99 Being too easy vs too hard to work with as a designer
Apologies for the strange noises when Anfisa talks. That’s baby Greg participating in the talk.
In this episode:
How to articulate strong opinion and stand your ground in collaboration?
When as a designer you try to get your point across, should you go for a soft strategy or should you be more pushy?
How to become an effective communicator?
Why building relationships with your teammates is important?
Why designers should be facilitators for good decisions?
Resources:
"Articulating Design Decisions" book
Check out these courses:
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Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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Links:
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#98 Is it the time to quit UX and move on?
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In this episode:
• What to do if you consider quitting design industry and feel less motivated as a designer? How do you know it is time for something new?
• What to do if you feel burned out from your design role?
• What are alternative career paths for designers?
Resources:
Episode with Hang Xu on "How to negotiate salaries in UX design"
Reddit thread mentioned in the episode
Matej Latin's article "Why designers quit"
Check out these courses:
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Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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Links:
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#97 Being an intern and pursuing a full-time role
This Episode's sponsor:
Mobbin is the world's largest mobile & web design reference library where you can find practical design inspiration from real apps that solve real design problems. Don't forget to mention Honest UX Talks, if you register at Mobbin.
In this episode:
• How to showcase your value as UX designer when you are just starting out?
• How to approach interviews with potential companies as an intern? What questions to ask during the the interviewing process with potential companies?
• What are the strategies or ways how to identify opportunities for yourself as an intern in the company? What are the steps you should take as an intern to make the best our of your internship?
• How to overcome impostor syndrome and build your confidence as a designer?
Resources:
"The first 90 days" book
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
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Links:
🎓 Into UX design online course by Anfisa
🎓 Domestika course Create a Learning Strategy by Ioana
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#96 Designing for accessibility w/ Anna Cook
This Episode's sponsor:
Mobbin is the world's largest mobile & web design reference library where you can find practical design inspiration from real apps that solve real design problems. Don't forget to mention Honest UX Talks, if you register at Mobbin.
In this episode:
• Why accessibility is sometimes overlooked when designing?
• What companies are mature in terms of accessibility?
• How to build the business case for accessibility?
• What is the future of AI and its effect on accessibility?
This episode's guest:
Anna Cook
Anna's Auditing Design Systems for Accessibility course
People in the accessibility field to follow:
Stef Walter, Christina Mallon (She/her), Alexis Lucio (They/Them), Soren Hamby (They/Them), Shell Little (She/Her) Jennifer Zhang (She/Her), Crystal Preston Watson (She/Her), Yue Ou, Deepika Raj, Eric Bailey, Doug Kim, Matt May
Resources:
Microsoft joins Be My Eyes app
Be my Eyes
Building an accessibility program course
Check out these courses:
Join Anfi’s Job Search community:
Enroll on Ioana's AI course "AI-Powered UX Design: How to Elevate Your UX Career" on Interaction Design Foundation with 25% discount.
❓Next topic ideas:
Submit your questions or feedback anonymously here
Links:
🎓 Into UX design online course by Anfisa
🎓 Domestika course Create a Learning Strategy by Ioana
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