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A presentation I pulled together for General Assembly's UX Design Immersive course in London. I pulled the presentation together in a morning from some old and emerging thinking. Hoping to progress soon, so any feedback greatly received.
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Understanding yourself and what employers look
for when hiring UX talent 2 April 2014
Jason MesutHead of User ExperiencePlan
Sell yourselves better
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My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
!
Sell yourselves better
Sell yourselves better
Head of User Experience
at Plan
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@jasonmesut
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plan.bz
betteruxportfolios.com
Jason Mesut
Sell yourselves better
Industrial Design
Brunel !!
In-house Yell.com (Yellow Pages)
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Management/IT consultancy PA Consulting
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User-centred design / research consultancy
Flow (now Foolproof)
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Digital design marketing consultancy / agency LBi
The Team
RMA Consulting
Previously
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Some of my clients
Sell yourselves better
Plan
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My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
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Sell yourselves better
What I’ve always looked for*
Empathy
Critical thinking
Self awareness
Professionalism
UnderstandingCuriosity
Design skillsPassion
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Interest
Vocation
Opinion
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Passion
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Curiosity
Divergent ideation
Convergent concepting
Making tangible
Iteration
Graft of craft
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Design skills
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Interest
Discovery
Exploration
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Curiosity
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Ever widening domain
Ability to reassure
Ability to flip perspective
Build confidence
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Understanding
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Recognition of others
Respect of value
Respect in conflict
Balanced empathy
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Empathy
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Ever widening domain
Ability to flip perspective
Hold on to some constants
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Self awareness
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Cynical optimism
Probing popular rhetoric
Seeing possibilities
Foreseeing challenges
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Critical thinking
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Service provider
Honesty
Organisation
Diligence
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Professionalism
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My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
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Sell yourselves better
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Soft skills determine
how you think, make and
interact with others
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Profiling
Sell yourselves better
Perfect EA poster
Created in 2005 for Euro IA so needs an update
Sell yourselves better
Soft skills
Sell yourselves better
Body metaphor
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Sell yourselves better
Profile wheels
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User Experience is made
up of a mix of disciplines,
practices and titles.
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Profiling
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Understanding your
shape and how you want
to develop is really useful
throughout your career
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Profiling
Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants: 2005 - 2013
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
Evolved from an Adaptive Path model and in use at LBi, The Team, and RMA
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UX quadrants
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
Insight and big picture
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UX quadrants
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
User Interface craft
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UX quadrants
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
Conceptual, design, feel
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UX quadrants
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
Analysis, rigour, logic
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Provenance
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
Industrial design
Business consulting, Marketing HCI
Psychology
Software design
Web design
Business strategy
Market research
Design research
Library science
Design strategy
Device interface design
Models as drawn by team members at RMA
Models as drawn by team members at RMA
Models as drawn by team members at RMA
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Have a go
Understand your shapeMap yourself against the different dimensions
Your name Date
URUser Research
ExSExperienceStrategy
IAInformationArchitecture
IxDInteraction Design
www.plan.bz
Name and date
Draw a shape Fill out the wheel
URUser Research
ExSExperienceStrategy
IAInformationArchitecture
IxDInteraction Design
Jason 7 Jan 2014
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UX double diamond
ExS Experience
Strategy
IxD Interaction
Design
UR User
Research
IA Information Architecture
VL Visual
Language
MG Motion
Graphics
ID Information
Design
A work in progress
Developed at RMA, currently being evolved at Plan
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UX layers
RMA’s disciplines of User Experience
Visual Language
Motion Graphics
Information Design
Interaction Design
Experience Strategy
User Research
Information Architecture
What user perceives
Big D
Little d
UX
UI
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My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
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Sell yourselves better
Sell yourselves better
See more at: betteruxportfolios.com
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1. Portfolio rant
2. Portfolio tips handout
3. Sell yourself better presentation
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@jasonmesut
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plan.bz
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