Looking to move into UX/UI from a more traditional design background. So happy to get involved for FREE!
Hey all.
So I'm 24 years into a career and COVID bit me in the butt and I find myself unemployed.
I desperately want to refresh my skills and UX/UI is a fascinating formalisiation of core design practices and it's something I'd love to expand my experience of. However with no real credetials in UX/UI (although I have designed eLearning programmes and website front end work and the idea of user flow has been inherent in most of the employee engagement work I've been doing for the last 6 years), it's almost impossible to make the transition into paid UX/UI work.
So I was thinking, if anyone is working in that field and would not find it too onerous, I'd happily volunteer my services for free to gain a little experience. It's an extra pair of eyes with a lot of design experience and curiosity behind them and if it's free and in tandem with your usual work processes then you're not loosing out.
To reitereate, not looking for a promise, not looking for payment just looking for an opportunity to flex a little and see what I can do, and gain some functional experience.
Thanks for your time.
Matt
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- @Lorenzo Verzini Thanks so much for the direction man.Will check that out.
- Hi Matt and nice to meet you. In my opinion first of all you need you understand what type of UI/UX you want to tap in (i.e. xperience, products etc.) then you need to familiarise with patterns, visual language, motion principle and culture - which are evolving rapidly. If you just want to start with something SuperHi have a quite good system - https://www.superhi.com/
- @Jorge Margarido thanks for the input man. I hear you, the principles are essentially everything that is at the heart of good traditional design disciplines. Problem is, proving that to a potential employer. I’m planning to start running my own self initiated project but I feel that lacks weight so was hoping to shadow a pro and see how it’s done and maybe try working through their project in tandem.... build some experience and credentials that way
- I'm also transitioning from traditional graphic design to UI/UX. Recently I've been collaborating with this international non-profit as an illustrator and got to see first hand how UI/UX work develops and guess what, if you know what a layout is, you know how to work with colors and you're familiar with the internet/navigability - you can easily work as a UI/UX designer. You may even do your work on Adobe Illustrator although Figma and Sketch are more UI/UX friendly.
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