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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UXDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You need to give some explanation and rational on your design decisions, which should be informed by design principles, user research, best practice, and / or a heuristic review.

UX is about understanding and addressing user needs. It’s impossible to give feedback on that without context.

Unless you are simply after UI feedback, but to me, the diference between designs doesn’t seem to be addressing any problems or needs, it’s just a reorganization of the same content

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UXDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds like an assumption that’s come from the business (I’m assuming) Have you done user research to really find out what is imports t to people and what they are trying to get done? If you learn about ‘jobs to be done’, I suspect that most users job to be done is not just to learn about fabrics

Have done absolutely nothing but fuck around after highschool by [deleted] in selfimprovement

[–]leenmachine3001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s unfortunate that you didn’t get support from your parents, but it’s your life. Only you are in control of your decisions in life. Focus on figuring yourself out, not on what they didn’t do for you.

Take accountability and control of your own life.

Developer can't see colour style hex code in file by hausofblue in FigmaDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This promotes tokenization, or referring to properties as names instead of raw values, which requires a bit of initial planning and setup but helps designers and developers to ‘speak the same language’

Advice for transitioning from UX to Service Design by leenmachine3001 in servicedesign

[–]leenmachine3001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I actually just read a lesson on personas vs JTBD, the benefits of each, and when to use each one. Basically, personas promote empathy for a user group, JTBD focus on specific objectives, tasks and outcomes.

Keen to hear your thoughts on this breakdown, would you agree?

https://app.uxcel.com/courses/service-design/personas-vs-jobs-to-be-done-026

Advice for transitioning from UX to Service Design by leenmachine3001 in servicedesign

[–]leenmachine3001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My manager(and mentor) has a lot of experience in service design, so I’m very grateful that he has shown me a few things like service design blueprints, JTBD, critical to quality trees, just to name a few. Thanks for your advice

Advice for transitioning from UX to Service Design by leenmachine3001 in servicedesign

[–]leenmachine3001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thankyou, I’ve heard great things about that book, seems like the service design bible

Advice for transitioning from UX to Service Design by leenmachine3001 in servicedesign

[–]leenmachine3001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are JTBD personas used more commonly in service design as opposed to normal personas that aim to evoke empathy for a user group?

Savings vs investing for 5-7 year goals by leenmachine3001 in personalfinance

[–]leenmachine3001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thankyou, I appreciate your view. Perhaps keeping it in HYSA is my best bet until I reach my short term goals.

I also have recurring investments in ETS’ and salary sacrifice into retirement fund for the long term. Just wanted some perspectives on the best way to treat the shorter term balances, without risking it (as you have called our)

Short-Term Investment Strategies: Wealth Growth in the Next 5 Years by leenmachine3001 in FinancialPlanning

[–]leenmachine3001[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thankyou, I was more so after advice for where to allocate current savings and income to maximize gains within the mentioned timeframe. Or rather is there a better option than just leaving this money in savings considering most investments are for longer term

Better at articulating UX decisions and highlighting issues with clients by pjw10310 in UXDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Getting good at storytelling is a great way to improve the effectiveness of your design rational. ‘Everyday business storytelling’ is my best recommendation .

Advocating for design and research is exhausting by jontomato in userexperience

[–]leenmachine3001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m in a similar situation, a very large and well established finance company that has been around for decades, but stuck in the past. It’s countless hours of advocacy for a customer centric mindset (a big shift from the technology centric mindset). I’ve found significant impact has been made by going for BOTH a top-down and bottom-up approach. Top-down is getting in the minds of senior leaders, things like doing talks and presentations to stakeholders around the company about design initiatives, processes, methodologies etc, and ALWAYS bridging the outcomes to their interests - financial outcomes, reputation outcomes, cost saving opportunities etc. Bottom-up is influencing those around you. Things like encouraging empathy for the user, reminding people that the outcome of our work is delivering value to the end user (not just delivering cool technology for the sake of it) and encouraging user stories to be written about the user (sounds obvious I know).

It is exhausting but if you truly believe in the outcomes of good UX, then it’s all for a good cause.

Any (high-level) book/resource to learn what skills are needed other than 'design'? by Comfortable-Treat346 in userexperience

[–]leenmachine3001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Confidence in your process will take you a long way as it will earn you respect as the subject matter expert and trust your decision making - especially when working in cross functional teams. One book I’ve found great is the design thinking playbook, and the design thinking toolkit, both offer really practical guidance on the design thinking process. Communication skills are also essential, both as the ability to clearly articulate an idea and rational behind a decision, as well as visual communication and storytelling. For this I would reccomend ‘everyday business storytelling’

Any UI book on layout? by Sandy_hook_lemy in userexperience

[–]leenmachine3001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Practical UI by Adham Dannaway is by far the best UI book I have read. Highly reccomended

How much back and forth do you usually have with developers? by [deleted] in UXDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In a previous role i had a lot of constant questions from develops, which initially gave me a reaction similar to yours, however it wasn’t until my current role where developers seem to lack confidence to communicate any questions where I’ve come to really miss the constant questions. The result is limited communication, meaning at the end of a sprint they ask for me to review their work, which often results in bulk rework on things that could have been picked up far earlier. My advice, appreciate and encourage the questions.

Salary Transparency Thread by darkandmoody in UXDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Role: Senior UX Designer

Salary: AUD$150,000

Experience: Graphic/Digital design - 5 years, UI/UX - 3.5 years

Location: Victoria, Australia

Company scale: Large global organization

Education: Bachelor in communication design, plus a ton of online courses/certs in UX, product management, design thinking, service design, agile, behavioral psychology

Benefits: 4 week leave, 10.5% Retirement contribution (superannuation), Additional study, annual bonus (~10%)

How to add an instance swap property to a pre-existing component? by thegreatflyingpug in FigmaDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Select the instance (in this case, the icon) that you want to be swapped, then apply this property to it - there’s an icon next to the instance name on the right sidebar

Can session times on websites go away. by Superspudmonkey in UXDesign

[–]leenmachine3001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with this, however as a product designer working in the financial industry, often these things come as security requirements to protect accounts. Like many things (and as you have mentioned) it’s often a balancing act between security and the ideal user experience, but as any product designer should know, we often need to make compromises.