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What Tech Job is Right for Me? A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Your Career Path - Article hero image
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What Tech Job is Right for Me? A Comprehensive Guide to Navigating Your Career Path

Think about which tech career is right for you and you may well find that choosing a career is about getting work that offers fulfilling employment, personal growth opportunities, and—of course—good remuneration. If you’re finding yourself contemplating a change or exploring alternative paths on you

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How to Design Use Cases in UX

Imagine a new mobile app or an e-commerce site gets launched; it looks great, sure, and it should be a hit because it at least looks like it’s got what it takes, but—drumroll—it tanks in the marketplace, all because people find it hard to complete even the simplest tasks. That’s rough, but—behind th

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How to Become a Product Manager: Best Career Advice

Pick any product and you’ll find that product management is vital to how successful it is—and product managers are who make sure that a product’s life cycle runs smoothly, and it means they know how to align strategy, vision, and user needs. Product managers split into multiple roles that have got u

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The Use of Story and Emotions in Gamification

Gamification projects can benefit from storytelling features; these features can help arouse emotional connections with players. They can enhance the player experience and improve the longevity and fun factor of the gamified features. Let’s take a closer look at how that might work, even if you don’

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Bad UX Exposed: A Comprehensive Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls

In today’s vibrant digital design landscape, creating meaningful connections with users goes beyond offering innovative products or services. It leads us into the world of user experience design (or UX design). This critical factor shapes our interaction with the users and plays a big role in making

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Understand the Various Types of Creativity

When you want to be more creative, you’ll want to learn the techniques for creative thinking and understand the various forms of creativity and creative processes. This video will give you an overview of some of the different forms of creativity. For example, you’ll learn that there are two types of

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Design Podcasts to Learn UX on the Go

As digital designers, we know the bulk of our day is spent looking at screens. Give your eyes some rest, and tune into podcasts instead. They are a great way to stay updated, gain insights, be inspired or experience “A-ha” moments. The best part about podcasts is that unlike reading or watching vide

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User Experience (UX) Surveys: The Ultimate Guide

Imagine you’re a business owner who wants to know what’s working and what’s not on your website—and, oh yes, where you need improvements. Sure, there are a bunch of research methods you can try—like user interviews, usability tests, and A/B testing, but read on and see how a user experience (UX) sur

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Preparing for a Design Job Interview

There are few things in life as critical to us as getting it right at interview. The design job of your dreams might as well be on top of Everest in a blizzard if you can’t deliver what the interviewer wants. We can’t guarantee success but there are some simple tips to follow to improve your chances

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Don Norman: How You Can Rapidly Move Up by Thinking in Systems (Not Features)

How can you move up in a company? Learn the fundamentals of business such as statistics, finance, accounting, marketing, supply chain and administration. How do you do that? One way to do this is to get a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. But Don says you can also learn them without go

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How to Find Your Voice: Speak with Confidence and Clarity

You’ve heard it before “It’s not what you said—it’s how you said it.” Your voice can change how people feel—even if your message doesn’t. If you vary your tone and pacing, you can make your ideas sound more trustworthy, exciting, or urgent. Harness this neuroscience-backed communication power and yo

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Avoid Death by PowerPoint: Structure Your Slides for Maximum Impact

Your message is ready, your delivery honed. Now, how do you put that brilliance on slides? Discover how to structure your slide deck strategically so that it supports your message, whether you present live or share it for independent review.Whether you're pitching to stakeholders, leading a team mee

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Use Feedback as Your Superpower: Learn, Improve, Shine

Feedback: the word alone can inspire apprehension. Yet, it’s the lifeblood of great design. Whether it’s subtle critique or blunt rejection, how you respond to feedback matters more than you think. You can defend your design—or you can use that moment to learn, improve, and show you're the kind of p

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Overcome the Self-Doubt That Stops You from Being an Excellent Presenter

Do you doubt your ability to speak up, thinking you’re not the public speaking type? Many people do. But the truth is, most beliefs about presentation skills are simply wrong. Let’s break down these myths and boost your confidence—you’ve got far more potential than you think.In the next video, Morga

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Present Like a Pro: Become a Designer Who Leads

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to communicate them. You can design the perfect solution ... but if nobody understands it, cares about it, or champions it? It goes nowhere. If you can master presentation skills, you’ll open new doors in your design career, access new opportunities, a

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Presentation Pitfalls and How You Avoid Them

You’ve worked hard on your ideas—don’t let simple messaging missteps keep them from landing. Make your brilliant ideas shine in every presentation by deftly sidestepping common messaging missteps, and give your hard work the influence it deserves every time.Morgane Peng, Head of Product Design & AI

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How to Change Your Career from Software Development to UX Design

Most people believe that an aesthetic sense or a formal education in visual design is necessary to become a user experience (UX) designer. This perception unfortunately becomes an obstacle for software developers who want to switch their career to UX design.If you’re a software developer who wants t

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If You Don’t Fail, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough

In some cultures, people never recover from failure, and Don Norman says this is wrong. In other cultures, failure is seen as a way to learn. David Kelley, the founder of design firm IDEO, once said, “Fail faster, succeed sooner.” Don says this is good, but encourages us to take it one step further,

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AR Heuristics to Avoid Common UX Pitfalls

User testing may be the final word in usability, but usability guidelines, or "heuristics," are rubrics designers use to evaluate their designs. These guidelines are the product of decades of research and experience. They have traditionally been applied to mobile or desktop interfaces but were updat

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15 Inspiring UX Quotes for Innovation and Design

In design—and anywhere else that innovation is involved—words can often paint a picture far more vividly than strokes on a canvas ever could, and that’s true in UX design (user experience design), where inspiration often comes from straightforward phrases. These brief quotes are way more than just w

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