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IntoUX.design is a one-stop-shop for everything UX process related.
The program will help you gain confidence applying design thinking in any industry.
Designed for:
👉 Those who only start their transition journey
👉 And those who have experience in UI design but need to structure their UX process knowledge and fill the gaps.

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❇️ Once a year ‘Course Birthday SALE’.
📆 Only this week until the end of Sunday, June 2nd (11.59am CET)
💸 All the courses are on 50% SALE for $125 instead of $250.
🎁 The discount is also applicable on pricing plans (2 & 3 months).

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Here is what you get:
🔹 Comprehensive program with 35h of videos (Self-paced taking).
🔹 All the videos with subtitles (🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇵🇹 🇷🇺 🇮🇩 🇮🇷).
🔹 Friendly communication style (check out free preview classes)
🔹 Lifetime access.
🔹 Access to my personal templates for UX research and testing.
🔹 Hub of links, books, tools, PDF slides, articles, and other structured resources.
🔹 Access to peer students' project examples to reverse engineer any UX process.
🔹 Watch lessons from a mobile with Thinkific app.

Have questions?
Drop it below in the comments.

Much love,
Anfi

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➡️ Want to transition to design or gain confidence in your UX process? This course is a one stop shop for everything you need to know UX related.

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⚠️👇Message to all aspiring UX designers…

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I often notice how aspiring designers prioritize aesthetics over user needs.

❤️While I totally share the same amount of love to aesthetics, minimalism and visual trends, I DO WANT to empathize that being UX designer ≠ being a Visual designer.
It’s one aspect of it.

If you’re a beginner designer, make sure to focus on these 3 parts equally:

🔴 Utility = Understanding and solving real user problems or satisfy needs⁣.

🔴 Usability = Making it is easy, quick and pleasant to use the product/solve their problems.⁣

🔴 Engagement = Creating healthy user habits that improve lifes and sustain businesses⁣.

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🔎And the only way to achieve these, is to engage with your user, stakeholders and business owners...not with Dribbble

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💼 Important PORTFOLIO tip
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Before working on portfolio start by asking yourself:

🔸Who is the user of my portfolio website?
🔸What are they looking for?
🔸What is the goal of my site?
🔸What problem is it trying to solve?

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⛔️ Don’t start by being inspired by someone’s flashy and cool web interactions. It’s cool, but UX managers who understand UX are not looking to be impressed by flashy effects. For your hiring manager it really comes down to:

✅ Can you tell me who you are?
✅ Do you understand the basics of usability, interaction, IA, accessibility, business, heuristics, psychology?
✅How do you solve problems?
✅Are you a strategic thinker?
✅Can you tell me what you learned in your process?

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💫Often happens that your flashy website only distract and do a disservice for you. Especially when you didn’t take time to answer this fundamental questions.

⏳ Hiring managers receive 100s of portfolios. They just don’t have time to do a complete audit of your website. The chances are you are not going to make the cut…

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⤵️So my takeaway is:
💡Know your TA and focus on the storytelling.
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🗂 Your UX case study checklist. Save for a future reference.

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🤩 Only once a year!
📆 Until Monday, June 20th (12.00 AM CET)
🔗 https://www.intoux.design/
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Course includes:

🎥 35h of videos lessons
💼 Examples on my Cases ⁣
⛓ Links to all the resources/tools⁣
❓ UX quizzes to test your knowledge⁣
⁣🛠 Print-out tools and digital UX tools⁣
📑 Templates for interviews and surveys⁣
🗂 Client Proposal Templates⁣
📙 PDF's with all the materials and slides⁣
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🛑 READ CAPTIONS 🛑
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Portfolio project is your strategic investment, anything you put there will be attracting clients or companies who solve similar problems. Fake briefs is an easy option to go for, but here are some better ideas of projects you can work on for your portfolio.

1️⃣ Plan your portfolio

♦️What problems do you want to solve? (landing pages, product design for startups / businesses / corporations etc)
♦️What industries you want to work in? (SaaS, e-commerce, tech, ML, AI, VR, B2C, B2B)
♦️Research on what niche problems can you pick up with this brief (e.g. B2B SaaS Landing pages)
⚠️Make sure you start from the problem area, not “that great idea”.

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2️⃣ Problems to solve around you
Look for Problems / Opportunities in your life or lives of the people around you.
♦️Personal problems. E.g. I hate deciding what to wear in the morning, HMWI solve it?
♦️Friends&familly or local business support.
♦️Volunteer for NGO

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3️⃣ Creative contests for big brands
♦️ en.eyeka.com/creators
♦️ jovoto.com
This could be a chance not only to find an problem, but to:
💡Work for a real client
💡Build a case study for a known brand
💡Chance to win monetary reward

🔎👀 Bulletproof tip to sell user research⁣
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💸 When research sounds expensive, encounter it with something that is more expensive.⁣
In other words, calculate the cost of not doing the research. ⁣
E.g.:⁣
➡️ If you see the company is doing damage control over and over again. ⁣
➡️ If see how teams spend time arguing in the meetings.⁣
➡️ If see how many support tickers are out there.⁣
➡️ If you notice missed opportunities that use can monetize.⁣
Put a price label on the mysterious word “Research’. Show that it’s less expensive than what’s happening today.⁣
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👇PS. Want to learn to run user research? Check out my courses⁣ ⁣
🔗 www.intoux.design | .design

🤯 A few weeks ago I hit 100 000 followers on Instagram, but I’ve never had a chance to post my sincere gratitude and thank you messages to everyone who supported me through this journey.

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A little history:
It started 6 years ago with a book called “Show your work” by Austin Kleon that inspired me to share my design-life bit by bit. It was never my intention to be an ‘influencer’. I haven’t played by the rules, nor have I been consistent. But one thing I did was keep it going. And that’s all thanks to you. Back in 2017 when Adobe plugged me in as a ‘Top 8’ account to follow, my account was mentioned as the last one on the list. 5 years later it’s the only active account from that list. And the secret is simple: community.

❤️So, thank you 100 000 times. I’m blessed to be a part of such a wonderful, smart, kind and open design community

😜 Random UX terms 😜
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We, designers, are great at one thing in particular: Coming up with the new UX terms. Here come fresh terms I’ve recently heard. I’m sure if you start using them today, you’ll look way smarter in your colleague’s eyes.
PS. I’m kidding 😊

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➡️ KEI’s - key experience indicators

➡️ Fake door test - Experiment in which you’re treating if people click on a feature that’s not developed yet (this measuring the interest)

➡️ Machine Ethnography - Basically machine learning (+data mining) for ethnographic studies. Ethnography study n it turns is studying people's cultures, customs, and habits.

➡️ Empathy Gap Analysis - Basically the idea of not being able to relate to the emotions, needs, and feelings of users because we’re naturally experiencing the world around them differently.

➡️ Polyhierararchical IA - an IA structure where an item exists in more than one place (or can be reached with several category paths). Honestly, just forget this term. You’ll most likely never use it anyways.

➡️ Confidence Intervals - a term used in UX statistics. NNG defines it as a likely range for the true score of your entire population.

➡️ MUI - Material Ui. I’ve never heard an acronym, but apparently it’s a thing.

❓What is the most ridiculous UX term you’ve ever heard?