Meet Olivia, a Richmond, Virginia-based net designer with over six years {of professional} expertise within the artistic business. Learn extra about Olivia and the way she makes use of UX design to indicate off her artistic abilities for her purchasers.
I’ve efficiently accomplished three programs: Foundations of Person Expertise (UX) Design, Begin the UX Design Course of: Empathize, Outline, and Ideate, and Construct Wireframes and Low-Constancy Prototypes. Nonetheless, I’m not stopping there; I’m decided to proceed my studying journey.
In my position as an internet designer for a collegiate advertising firm, I’ve honed my empathetic abilities by creating personas, person tales, person journey maps, and downside statements. These abilities have helped me prioritize the person’s wants and preferences, leading to designs which are user-friendly and accessible to all.
Moreover, my ideation abilities have strengthened, notably by way of conducting aggressive audits and fascinating in artistic workouts like “Loopy 8’s.” These practices have inspired me to suppose innovatively and observe profitable and unsuccessful methods employed by different companies within the business.
Furthermore, I’ve gained proficiency in wireframing and prototyping through the use of instruments like Figma, which permits me to create low-fidelity variations of merchandise and current early phases of my work interactively to stakeholders and purchasers. It was an excellent expertise to check Figma to different instruments we use for prototyping at my job.
As I progress towards acquiring a Google certification in UX design, I nonetheless have 4 extra programs to finish out of the whole seven, and I’m eagerly wanting ahead to reaching this milestone.
To these embarking on their studying journey, please take your time and never rush by way of the programs. It’s important to let the knowledge sink in and grasp the ideas totally earlier than transferring ahead. Keep in mind, studying needs to be pleasing, so have enjoyable with it! And don’t overlook that Google’s certification program means that you can reset deadlines and be taught at a cushty tempo.
