1. Be curious 🧠
When you work as a UX Designer, you tackle various problems, from design challenges to collaboration struggles. You kick-off a new project and then what? No one is telling you what to do and you feel lost. To feel more confident, start asking questions, listen, observe, ask others their opinions. Be humble and don’t think about being an expert here.
2. Try things & iterate ✏️
UX Design is an iterative process. You don’t draw one frame in Figma and that’s it. You start with shitty first sketches, you create prototypes after prototypes. You make mistakes, learn and then eventually find what works.
3. Reframe problems 💥
UX Design is all about reframing. You iterate on your drawings, problem statements, ideas etc. to look at them from different perspective. If you feel stuck, try to reframe the problem. If we start solving the first problem we find, we might solve not the right problem.
Reframing techniques that might help you: Six Thinking Hats, Issues Tree, How might we questions, Investigative Stories, Lightning Decision Jam
4. Remember it’s a process 🚗
The product or a service is never done and a UX Design is no different in all of this. Many of the designs in my UX career have never been implemented, drawings have been thrown out and research findings have never been used. It’s good to let it go and continue smashing new problems and ideating.
5. Ask for help & feedback 👩🏻🚀
UX Design is a team work so in order to create the best possible solutions, you need to collaborate with others. Ask for feedback, set up workshops, call someone on 1–1 to gather feedback, join design critique sessions, meet with the project team.
