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Honest UX Talks

Honest weekly conversations about UX design career, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all t

Episodes

Total: 140

Discussed in this episode: Why you don’t get any feedback to your design portfolio after applying? H

We are sorry for problems with the sound in this episode. Discussed in this episode: How to survive

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Discussed in this episode: In this episode, Denis a founder of figura.digital shares a lot of insigh

Discussed in this episode: What aspects are essential for finding freelance work? What is the proces

To skip the intro, go directly to 09:49 • What are the trends in the market right now that help us

• Who are the hosts of Design Life podcast and their side projects • How do they retain joy from the

• What is UX writing? How UX writing is different from copywriting?  • What is the differe

• Why micromanagement is a problem? In what way it can impact individual contributors on a dail

• Does work experience in terms of number of years translates into competence? • How to deal wi

• What are the signs you are not a junior designer anymore and can move to a new level?  • How

• Practical advice on how to build UI skill set. • Relationship between UI and UX. • UI related

• Difference between working at fast-growing PRE-IPO companies, enterprise companies and early stage

• The structure and purpose of the whiteboard challenge  • How to approach whiteboard challenge

Good and bad moments about being a design team of one How to survive and thrive as a design team

• Salary expectations you should have for your first job.  • Strategies to approach salary nego

If you would like to skip intro, episode starts at 9:20 How does UX hiring process look like? 

Strategies on how to get hired for a UX position without applying to hundreds of roles How to mak

Importance of good research and dangers of sloppy research.  Most common reasons why clients