Honest UX Talks

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Honest UX Talks

Anfisa Bogomolova & Ioana Teleanu•podcasters.spotify.com

Honest weekly conversations about UX design career, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things UX. Ioana and Anfisa together have 20 years of experience in the UX field and trying to share their main lessons to help anyone transitioning to design overcome the fears. Want to support us? Sign up to get access to exclusive locked episodes for $0.99/mo https://anchor.fm/honestuxtalks/subscribe To request the next topic DM us on Instagram: 🗂 instagram.com/honest_ux_talks 👩‍💻 instagram.com/anfisign 👩🏻‍💻 instagram.com/uxgoodies

Episodes

#6 Starting a new job in 2020

In this episode, I wanted to share how did it felt to start a new job in 2020 in the product company being fully remote. ⚠️ Spoiler alert: It was definitely not easy for an offline extroverted person. Also, it's the first experimental episode alone.  ➡️Pre-history and why I started a new job ➡️The choice: Product company vs Toptal  ➡️️Connecting with the team online ➡️️Struggles of an extrovert working online ➡️️Understanding a complex product ➡️️What I've learned ------- Follow us on ...

Feb 02, 2021•25 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

#5 Mental health. Burnout. Bare minimun | w/Gabriel Kirmaier as UXbites

2020 is FINALLY behind! But after such a rollercoaster year, we've all left feeling a little burnout or et least mentally drained. In this episode, we've invited our friend Gabriel Kirmaier (@uxbites) to discuss why he took the whole 2020 year OFFline and how it impacted his productivity. 👨🏻‍💻Gabriels' Instagram account instagram.com/uxbites ➡️Gabriel's' story of a social media disappear ➡️Why are we allowing ourselves to overwork? ➡️Super-productivity vs Bare-minimum ➡️Does strategy lead to ...

Jan 26, 2021•52 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast

#4 Do you need an online presence?

Seems like during 2019-20 EVERY designer in the world started their social media pages, but not every designer stuck around. In this episode let's discuss if it's worth creating your SM presence and if yes, then why? ➡️ Why starting your own SM presence? ➡️Our social media blogs stories  ➡️ Does it make sense to start your social media in 2021? ➡️Does SM help you to land new freelance clients? ➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways ------- Follow us on Instagram to stay tuned for the next episod...

Jan 19, 2021•57 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast

#3 UX design processes

If you google UX design processes, you’ll receive about 481,000,000 search results. So what design processes do we usually follow and what is their actual value? ➡️ Design thinking and Double diamond ➡️ UX process stages ➡️ How UX processes differ from a small to big companies ➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways ------- Follow us on Instagram to stay tuned for the next episodes. Feel free to DM your question if you want us to discuss it. 🗂  instagram.com/honest_ux_talks 👩‍💻  instagram.com/anfis...

Jan 05, 2021•43 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast

#2 Defining UX design

UX design sounds very broad and even ambiguous. In this episode let's try to understand why is it so and what does UX really mean? ➡️ Our UX design definitions and how we explain it to our Moms ➡️ UX designer vs UX design industry ➡️ What is good UX? ➡️ Examples of good UX for us ➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways ------- Follow us on Instagram to stay tuned for the next episodes.  Feel free to DM your question if you want us to discuss it.  🗂 instagram.com/honest_ux_talks 👩‍💻 instagram.com/an...

Jan 04, 2021•47 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

#1 How to transition to UX Design

Are you getting started in the UX design field too? In this episode, we're: ➡️ Sharing our transition to UX stories. ➡️ Discussing what was common in our journeys. ➡️ Discussing the main fears when it comes to a transition. ➡️ Impostor syndrome and self-doubt ➡️ TOP 6 main tips and takeaways to help you transition to UX too ------- Follow us on Instagram to stay tuned for the next episodes. Feel free to DM your question if you want us to discuss it. 🗂 instagram.com/honest_ux_talks 👩‍💻 instagr...

Jan 04, 2021•38 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast