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90 Day Plan For Your New Design Job

90 day plan for your new design job

  • June 24, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Career, Starting out, Tips
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You made it. You survived the gauntlet of portfolio reviews, interviews, design challenges, and landed a new design job. Now is the time to really get to work. How should you approach the first 90 days? I have gone through…

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John Challis On Growing As A Designer

John Challis on Growing as a Designer

  • May 30, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Career, Interviews, Tips, UX
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John Challis is a Product Designer for IBM Bluemix and founder of the fashion and art blog, Hastyville. He currently lives in Austin,TX. In this interview, we discuss getting started in the industry, working for IBM Design, and growing as…

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4 Things To Do Before Every UX Design Job Interview

4 Things to do before every UX Design Job Interview

  • May 9, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Career, Tips, UX
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For most of this semester, I have been preparing my portfolio students to practice pitching their work and their skills for the impending UX design job interview. This week will be the last class for the semester. After they do…

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4 Job Interview Myths Designers Should Ignore

4 Job Interview Myths Designers Should Ignore

  • April 11, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Career, Portfolio, Starting out, Tips
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Job Interview Myth #1: No Experience = No Chance Truth: Internships and Entry Level positions Of all the job interview myths, this one frustrates most of my students. However, just remember that companies are often looking to grow the talent…

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Importance Of Visual Aesthetics In UX Design

Importance of Visual Aesthetics in UX Design

  • March 14, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Career, Tips, UX Design
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A few years into my career, I started to notice designers self-identifying themselves by a specialty. As we started to better define UX, we realized that no one designer can own the entire process. So, we categorized ourselves as visual…

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Challenges With Enterprise UX Design

Challenges with Enterprise UX Design

  • March 7, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Career, Organization, Tips, UX Design
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I came to enterprise software recently joining IBM design. Before this move I worked on mostly consumer facing applications at two startups and two agencies. A lot of my peers questioned my move. Their experiences with enterprise software companies were…

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How To Get More Actionable Design Feedback

How to get more actionable design feedback

  • February 28, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Tips, UX, UX Design, UX Process
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Designers need feedback to check with the team, stakeholders, and clients if they are on the right path. Too often we tend to show screens with little direction, and the design feedback is unfocused. As a result, it is not…

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Why Journaling Matters For Designers

Why journaling matters for designers

  • February 21, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Challenges, Inspiration, Organization, Tips
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Journaling is one of the hot new productivity trends. The lesson from every podcast I listen to each morning is that productive people journal to get their ideas out of their heads. In my case, I have a pile of…

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5 Ways To Make Your Design Portfolio Stand Out

5 Ways to Make Your Design Portfolio Stand Out

  • February 6, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Portfolio, Starting out, Tips
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The number one question my students ask me is be how to make their design portfolio stand out. After reviewing graduating students’ work as well as applicants at IBM, I often see a hodgepodge of what seems like everything they…

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5 Interview Tips For New Designers

5 Interview Tips for New Designers

  • January 23, 2017
  • Matt Eng
  • Starting out, Tips
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**Editor’s notes. This is a repost from an earlier article. Over the past year, I have talked with former students to hear about their stories interviewing for their first UX designer role. Their lessons combined with my interview experiences have…

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