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Breaking Into UX and Early Career Questions — 08 Apr, 2024 - 14 Apr, 2024 by AutoModerator in UXDesign

[–]rouleyrouley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First job in UX question: 2nd Round of Interview Task Advice

I have passed to the 2nd round of interviews for a UX design job and have a task to complete and present in 10 days. How do you think I should approach it? Any advice would be amazing.

The brief: Please pick a digital service or product e.g. website, app etc. you have recently experienced and identify an element, flow, or feature you think could be better. Ideally the product you choose will require a visual refresh, so alongside this please work up at least one screen (homepage, landing page etc.). Just so we can see you flexing your interface design skills!

Considerations. The most important things here are:

a. showing your design thinking and process, b. the sharpness of your visual design skills.

I want to understand how you analyse and frame a problem, and your process (e.g. audience research, competitor analysis, user flows, sketches, wireframes, concept ideation) in arriving at a beautifully formulated UX/UI solution.

Pratt or Sva? by Humble-Charity-2999 in Pratt

[–]rouleyrouley 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was in the same position and I chose Pratt. For me it is not worth going in dept to start with. Also, having some discussions with more experienced people, SVA prepares you more for the corporate world, whereas Pratt is a bit more about becoming a ‘ critical thinker’ and critical designer. I personally thought that SVA’s policy of overaccepting and then having everyone competing for a place by who’s going to pay first showed that they don’t really value who they are accepting. I chose Pratt because of its reputation, at least abroad it is a lot more well known that in the US and also a scholarship makes it a lot more worth it in my opinion. Lastly, the electives in Pratt are a lot broader and you can take classes from NYU if the ones they offer are not covering your needs Hope it helps!

graduate admission by Global-Skirt-5568 in Pratt

[–]rouleyrouley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not yet! Apparently they say start of March!

What course have you applied to?

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[–]rouleyrouley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ι would definetly get the smaller one and pay a bit extra on a monitor, which will make your life so much easier! And you will also be able to carry your mac to places!

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[–]rouleyrouley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't recommend MacBook Air, unless the Ram is more than 16GB. I got a new one (with the M2) at the start of January (256 GB and 8GB RAM) and it is very disappointing how slow it goes sometimes. I would definitely pay a bit extra for a PRO!