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Craft an Outstanding UX Portfolio With These Recruiter Tips
Many UX portfolios are poorly formatted and lack crucial information. Leverage these portfolio design tips from a UX recruiter to stand out and get hired.
Ignasi Boza
Ignasi is a product designer and UX recruiter who has spent more than a decade working with tech companies, design consultancies, and outsourcing services. He specializes in developing research frameworks, creating wireframes, producing vibrant digital products, and building customer experience teams by recruiting talent from around the world.
What’s Below the Surface: A Look at UX in the Beauty Industry
Innovations in tech and shifts in consumer behavior are changing the cosmetics and skin care business. Here’s how designers in beauty UI and UX are adapting to the new trends.
Abigail Beshkin
Abigail is a veteran of Pratt Institute and Columbia Business School, where she oversaw the design and production team for Columbia Business magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and been heard on NPR.
4 Steps to Mastering the MVP Development Process
In the world of startup products, design resources are scarce. This four-step MVP process helps designers build and launch user-friendly products on time without blowing their budgets.
Calin Balea
Calin is a product designer, lean UX practitioner, and branding specialist with experience at both startups and large companies. He’s worked on end-to-end product design from concept and strategy to usability testing to visual design. Calin works well with small teams and startup founders to iterate quickly, test early, and deliver on time.
Don’t Always Champion the User: How to Balance Business Priorities and UX
Designers who advocate for the user without showing an awareness of business objectives are at risk of being ignored. These strategies will help you communicate the value of UX to stakeholders.
Damir Kotorić
Damir is a digital designer who has created payments systems at Booking.com, open-data portals for Australian state governments, and the search experience at Envato Market. He has also facilitated design sprint workshops at Harvard University, been a lead UX instructor at General Assembly, and led AR/VR design at Archimedes Digital.
Medical Billing Reimagined: A UI/UX Case Study
Toptal designer Beatriz Garcia de Prado explains how she built a digital product to replace the outdated paper forms doctors were sending to insurance companies.
Beatriz Garcia de Prado
Beatriz Garcia de Prado is a UI/UX designer and branding expert who has worked for clients such as ABN AMRO, Ahold Delhaize, Dutch transport company Broshuis, and aperitif maker Haus. She is the former creative director of EMN & OLLA The Agency, and former managing director and art director of EMN in Bahrain. She is also the co-founder and art director of the luxury table linen brand Prado y Barrio.
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How to Conduct User Research as a Team of One
User research is essential to product design, but it can be challenging to do alone. Explore how a solo designer can optimize time and resources to uncover important user insights.
Anna Vasyukova
Anna is a data-driven product designer who specializes in user research, analytics, and usability testing. She holds an MBA, a Certificate in User Experience Design from the Nielsen Norman Group, and a Professional Diploma in UX Design from UX Design Institute.
Less Trust, More Truth: Web3 Design Best Practices and Patterns
Developers want Web3, a decentralized model of the internet, to become mainstream. To achieve that, designers need to make Web3 apps more consistent and intuitive.
Mayank Sharma
Mayank is a product designer who specializes in fintech and building Web3 apps and platforms. He has extensive knowledge of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and financial exchanges.
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