Meet Olivia, a Richmond, Virginia-based net designer with over six years {of professional} expertise within the artistic trade. Learn extra about Olivia and the way she makes use of UX design to point out off her artistic expertise for her shoppers.
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. Nevertheless, 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 expertise by creating personas, person tales, person journey maps, and downside statements. These expertise have helped me prioritize the person’s wants and preferences, leading to designs which are user-friendly and accessible to all.
Moreover, my ideation expertise have strengthened, significantly by conducting aggressive audits and interesting 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 trade.
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 shoppers. It was an important 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 wanting ahead to reaching this milestone.
To these embarking on their studying journey, please take your time and never rush by the programs. It’s important to let the knowledge sink in and grasp the ideas totally earlier than shifting ahead. Keep in mind, studying needs to be pleasant, so have enjoyable with it! And don’t overlook that Google’s certification program permits you to reset deadlines and study at a cushty tempo.
