Practical UX Weekly: Season One

Get tips that will help you confidently tackle real-world UX design projects. Drew Bridewell shares examples of how UX designers approach their work, collaborate, and solve problems.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Connecting with Drew

1. UX Skills

• What skills do people really need for UX?
• Sharing your design perspective within the team and beyond
• 5 tips to improve your user experience design skills
• A day in the life of a product designer
• Interviewing designers: tips, tricks, and things to avoid
• Acing your next design interview
• How to win when working remote
• Behind the role of a user experience designer
• Wireframing best practices

2. Product Design

• Designing a responsive web product
• Responsive web techniques: Creating box studies
• Product design at scale: Short- and long-term design thinking
• The workflow of a product designer
• Pitching your next user experience idea
• Designing for context first
• Pretty doesn't mean functional
• Practical tools for every UX designer
• Thinking design systems
• Managing expectations

3. Case Studies

• Case Study: Course page
• Case Study: Reminder feature
• Case Study: Signup flow
• Case Study: Orientation feature
• Case Study: Responsive navigations
• Case Study: Member homepage

4. Communication and Collaboration

• Investing in relationships with your team and beyond
• Working closely with product managers
• Working with engineers
• Facilitating workshops with your team
• Working through change
• Design critique fundamentals
• Sweating the details in UX
• Capture your wins
• Capturing your product bugs or new ideas
• Storytelling in user experience design
• Working with user experience researchers
• Redesigning your meetings

5. Cultivating Creativity

• Finding your magic creative time at work
• Making time to be creative
• Sketching in user experience design