Meet Olivia, a Richmond, Virginia-based internet designer with over six years {of professional} expertise within the inventive business. Learn extra about Olivia and the way she makes use of UX design to indicate off her inventive abilities for her purchasers.
I’ve efficiently accomplished three programs: Foundations of Consumer 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 function as an online designer for a collegiate advertising and marketing firm, I’ve honed my empathetic abilities by creating personas, person tales, person journey maps, and drawback statements. These abilities have helped me prioritize the person’s wants and preferences, leading to designs which can be user-friendly and accessible to all.
Moreover, my ideation abilities have strengthened, significantly by means of conducting aggressive audits and interesting in inventive workout routines like “Loopy 8’s.” These practices have inspired me to assume innovatively and observe profitable and unsuccessful methods employed by different companies within the business.
Furthermore, I’ve gained proficiency in wireframing and prototyping by utilizing 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 amazing 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 overall seven, and I’m eagerly trying ahead to reaching this milestone.
To these embarking on their studying journey, please take your time and never rush by means of the programs. It’s important to let the data sink in and grasp the ideas completely earlier than transferring ahead. Bear in mind, studying ought to be pleasant, so have enjoyable with it! And don’t neglect that Google’s certification program permits you to reset deadlines and be taught at a snug tempo.
