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Alpha Inception – Service Design – The Beginner’s guide
Alpha inception is the kick off phase of service design where you start to map out what you want to achieve and understand about your new service. It is a critical time for your project and team. Read this guide to understand how to run it effectively.
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Card Sorting – The Beginner’s Guide
What is card sorting? Card sorting is a user research method for uncovering how people assimilate and classify information in your website allowing you to develop an effective information architecture and sitemap. It is a simple and straightforward process where your participants / customers sort items into a classification. It can be used to label…
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Guerrilla Testing: Tips to Test Your Website or App the Lean and Agile Way
Guerrilla testing is the answer to the phrase “We don’t have the time or budget to user test”. Guerrilla testing is easy way to test a website or app for usability before it goes live. What is Guerrilla testing? Guerrilla testing or guerrilla research is a lean and agile technique for user testing that gives you…
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Product Managers – What do they do?
One of the key roles you will have to work with in your UX projects is a Product Manager or Product Owner. We speak to Josh Harris, Senior Product Manager at LexisNexis UK to find out more about what they do.. How did you get into your current role? Luck? I did Law at university, but realised…
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The Top 40 UX Books of All Time – As recommended by UX Designers
We asked our favourite UX Designers as well as the UXmentor.me mentors for their top UX books of all time. Not all of the books are specifically UX based – some are general design or psychology books but they have all inspired a UX Designer somewhere. We make a small commission if you purchase through any of…
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Meet the mentees – April 2017
We follow the journeys of some of our UX Mentorship Program mentees each month as they learn about UX and work towards getting their first UX jobs. This months mentees Ellen Henderson Twitter: @ellen_henLinkedIn Tara Lee-York Twitter: @taraleeyork1Linkedin Fabiola Borquez Twitter: @fabi_borquez 1. How did you get interested in UX? Ellen Until after university, I didn’t…
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Get your first UX Job – 10 tips to get hired
One of the questions that the mentors on our free UXmentor.me Slack channel frequently get asked is how to get your first UX job and create a UX portfolio. UX is a growing phenomenon – it came fourteenth in CNN’s top 100 jobs list. They said the number of UX roles will rise by 18% over the next…
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Becoming a UX Designer – Cuong Lu’s story
Becoming a UX designer when you have no experience may seem like a lofty goal at first. We chat to Cuong Lu who made the transition from physiotherapist to Junior UX Designer and learn about how he did it. 1. You’ve had quite a varied career so far. Can you tell us a bit about some…
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Discovery Phase – Service Design – The Beginner’s Guide
What is the discovery phase? The discovery phase of any service design project is one of the most important and one of the most intense. You start understanding the service as it currently exists (if it does) and where you want it to end up. Personas, user journeys and other familiar items from your UX…
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User Testing – 5 Tips for conducting your user test
Humans like to assume a lot of things, but assumptions are the mother of all..ah…I think you know the rest. It’s safe to say that you shouldn’t assume anything in life, especially in the world of technology. If you’re thinking about becoming a UX designer making assumptions is pretty much the worst thing you could…
