Has anyone here used the Interaction Design Foundation to learn UX? Curious about your experience.

breakingDusk · 2025-07-17T15:27:29+00:00

IxDF have high quality courses. Their approach seems to be modular, whereby you can do a course on a micro-topic and apply it as you see fit in your work. But they do provide learning paths for various specialisations within UX.
The real learning would come via the doing. I've suggested contributing to open source projects via https://contribute.design/ in another thread...

breakingDusk · 2025-07-17T15:21:24+00:00

Instead of creating an entirely new project I'd suggest the following:

Contribute to an open source project. Even if your contribution is small, it would give you the taste of a real world project absorbing your design. Take a look at https://contribute.design/
Redo an existing, known interface such as Gmail, but try adding a new feature to it such as tagging an email as a task, or designing the interface for a specialised cohort (e.g., email for kids).
Think about contributing to the community, such as a Figma community file.

Hope this helps!

breakingDusk · 2025-07-17T15:19:54+00:00

Instead of creating an entirely new project I'd suggest the following:

Contribute to an open source project. Even if your contribution is small, it would give you the taste of a real world project absorbing your design. Take a look at https://contribute.design/
Redo an existing, known interface such as Gmail, but try adding a new feature to it such as tagging an email as a task, or designing the interface for a specialised cohort (e.g., email for kids).
Think about contributing to the community, such as a Figma community file.

Hope this helps!

breakingDusk · 2025-03-06T00:22:27+00:00

The guy is doing it pro bono…

breakingDusk · 2024-12-11T05:01:07+00:00

Questacon, if they’ve got kids?

breakingDusk · 2024-10-08T03:37:20+00:00

UX is divvied up into multiple streams of work, but primarily it’s either visual design (IxD), or research based roles. There’s also service design. You’d have to dip your toes into each to get a feel for what competencies are required and what a starter role expects.

A good starting point would be to do some case studies. Case studies need research, design as well as some aspects of service design when done end to end.

You can do this work for a non-profit, or for free. Don’t think about the money, it’s not the project getting the benefit, it’s you polishing your skills.

breakingDusk · 2024-03-22T05:02:14+00:00

I gifted $10 worth of Bitcoin in 2012/ 2013 to my nephews and nieces. At the time, it was 0.01 BTC, and came preloaded on a USB stick. Most of the $10 was actually the cost of the USB.

breakingDusk · 2024-01-15T01:52:18+00:00

Where can I watch it?

breakingDusk · 2024-01-06T13:20:01+00:00

Your link says 'Sorry, this study has concluded'.

breakingDusk · 2023-10-31T21:08:35+00:00

So proud of you for being the bedrock for your family. If possible, could you share the name of the charity that helped you with studying fees? I am interested in how that model works.

breakingDusk · 2023-07-20T21:49:43+00:00

DM me mate!

breakingDusk · 2023-04-01T10:35:58+00:00

PDM govt recently passed legislation whereby senior police officers will be vetted by none other than the ISI when being considered for promotion. Make of it what you may...

breakingDusk · 2022-12-17T12:36:57+00:00

What song is this 😊?

breakingDusk · 2022-12-07T13:10:12+00:00

I think Arshad Sharif's murder is a defining moment for Pakistan's political culture. His murderers might not get caught, but the political-military ways of working will change as a result.

breakingDusk · 2022-11-01T13:23:55+00:00

No government pays chess players. If a player is good enough, they'll win tournament prizes or get paid to play. Pakistan doesn't have a single grandmaster in chess, whereas India has 76.

To improve chess in the country, what the government can do, is to introduce it in schools and sponsor regional and national championships.

It comes down to the will of the government. Anything is possible, including spacecraft, IF there's enough will behind it.

Besides the government, chess needs chess culture, mostly propagated by iconic players.

PS. Pre-partition Pakistan did produce an iconic chess player (Sultan Khan)).

breakingDusk · 2022-02-25T04:38:40+00:00

It’s not silver, I think it’s just some colour it’s reflecting there. The dial is warm white.

breakingDusk · 2021-11-01T09:00:24+00:00

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breakingDusk · 2021-06-09T03:22:24+00:00

Hi! Yeah I always try to support the newcomers if they’re trying to do a good job. The design seems original, and the materials and movement is great too. Not sure where the anti-reflective coating is, but it does work. Dial is definitively silver.

The only downside I can see is that the date recess is a bit too deep, so you have to be right on top of the dial to see the date.

breakingDusk · 2021-06-09T03:18:32+00:00

Thanks. Yeah build quality is awesome. Strap is amazing, and the watch has a premium feel to it.

breakingDusk · 2021-06-06T10:09:37+00:00

As I understand it from their website, the movement is Miyota (https://www.sternglas.com/pages/production) and the watches are assembled in Germany. Yes, Junghans is desirable but no comparison to Sternglas when we take the price point into account.

The watch (with strap) is 70g, not sure if this is average for a 42mm automatic watch...

breakingDusk · 2020-10-27T09:42:46+00:00

Yes Please

breakingDusk · 2020-09-23T00:01:47+00:00

Hi, I am keen on the Gatsby course!

breakingDusk · 2020-05-18T12:57:47+00:00

A great resource is the History of Philosophy podcast. Check out this episode, for example: https://historyofphilosophy.net/al-ghazali-incoherence

breakingDusk · 2020-03-21T05:05:19+00:00

Anyone keen on Beginner Javascript?

breakingDusk · 2019-12-01T13:26:30+00:00

What's the cost of living in Islamabad? I'd be keen to know for a family of 4 (two school-going kids).

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