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Alec McGuffey

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Alec McGuffey is the co-founder of RookieUp, a design education platform that offers short-term bootcamps and UX portfolio-building tools to give aspiring designers everything they need to build an amazing design portfolio and launch their design career.

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🦄 Happy Unicorn Day to you!⠀ Our friends at Interaction Design Foundation - IXDF are sprinkling magic dust today—you can now get 25% off its annual membership, which gives you free access to over 30 UX design courses. Whether you want to get your first job in UX or upskill yourself in a specific subject area, the IxDF membership can help you embrace your inner unicorn!⠀ 👋 To join and activate the 25% discount, click the link in our bio.
One way to hold yourself accountable for your resolutions is to write them down. Here’s a template to help you plan your #designresolutions2021. You can download a printable pdf version of this template via the link in our bio.⠀ ⠀ Want to dig deeper with us? How about sharing your #designresolutions2021 in the comments and/or on Slack and the forum? If you are writing down your resolutions on paper, why not take a photo and share them with us using the hashtag #designresolutions2021? We'd love to share your vision and goals with the community.
⏰ What are your resolutions going into 2021?⠀ Get back to basics with pen and paper, or go futuristic and dive head-first into the latest tech? Practice making sales pitches or explore new design tools? Work from home, or go back to physical offices with a vengeance? Shift gears towards causes that matter to you, or just take a break from our chaotic world? ⠀ ⠀ 🤗 If you’ve not made up your mind, we've prepared prompts to guide your resolutions. Go to the link in our bio to access them.⠀ ⠀ 🤔 Hey, want to dig deeper with us? How about sharing your #designresolutions2021 in the comments and/or on Slack and the forum? If you are writing down your resolutions on paper, why not take a photo and share them with us using the hashtag #designresolutions2021? We'd love to share your vision and goals with the community.
⏰ The countdown to 2021 has begun!⠀ No matter how 2020 has been to us (and it hasn’t been kind for the most part), let’s take the last few days of this year to be more hopeful.⠀ 🤔 Have you made any New Year #resolutions yet? Let us know in the comments and/or on Slack and the Forum.⠀ 🚀 If you’d like some ideas for your design resolutions, check out this list of prompts.
"One problem I see in new UX’ers is that they fail to realise they are designing for people other than themselves" - David Travis⠀ ⠀ Link in bio for full article.⠀ ⠀ #design #designer #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #designers #webdesign⠀ #ui #designlife #designthinking #ux #webdesigner #uidesign #userexperience #userinterface #uiux #uitrends #onlinelearning #uidesigner #interactiondesign #webdesigners #uxui #uxdesigning #designstudent #userexperiencedesign #designportfolio #designeducation #uxinspiration #userinterfacedesigner
The most important decisions made about any product often take place between iterations. You could argue that the timeframe between identifying key research findings and understanding what the next iteration will be is the most crucial to the future success of the product. Link in bio for a detailed explanation. ⠀ ⠀ #design #designer #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #designers #webdesign⠀ #ui #designlife #designthinking #ux #webdesigner #uidesign #userexperience #userinterface #uiux #uitrends #onlinelearning #uidesigner #interactiondesign #webdesigners #uxui #uxdesigning #designstudent #userexperiencedesign #designportfolio #designeducation #uxinspiration #userinterfacedesigner
It’s exciting to see more professionals wanting to research customers to make their services and products fit better. But there’s a lot of confusion about how to choose the most appropriate research methods to suit your goals. In this article, Indi Young offers practical tips to help you make that decision. Link in bio.⠀ ⠀ #design #designer #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #designers #webdesign⠀ #ui #designlife #designthinking #ux #webdesigner #uidesign #userexperience #userinterface #uiux #uitrends #onlinelearning #uidesigner #interactiondesign #webdesigners #uxui #uxdesigning #designstudent #userexperiencedesign #designportfolio #designeducation #uxinspiration #userinterfacedesigner
For UXers just starting out, this feeling is practically a prerequisite. What other group of people are meant to have extensive skills in research, design, strategic thinking, data and psychology? Oh and to add to this list, user experience designers are meant to have EXPERIENCE.⠀ ⠀ But we all have to start somewhere. Here’s how the experts cope when imposter syndrome rears its ugly head. Link in bio for more.⠀ ⠀ #design #designer #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #designers #webdesign⠀ #ui #designlife #designthinking #ux #webdesigner #uidesign #userexperience #userinterface #uiux #uitrends #onlinelearning #uidesigner #interactiondesign #webdesigners #uxui #uxdesigning #designstudent #userexperiencedesign #designportfolio #designeducation #uxinspiration #userinterfacedesigner
Representing your users from the presentation through the next design iteration is one key to your product’s success. Link in bio for a detailed explanation. ⠀ ⠀ #design #designer #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #designers #webdesign⠀ #ui #designlife #designthinking #ux #webdesigner #uidesign #userexperience #userinterface #uiux #uitrends #onlinelearning #uidesigner #interactiondesign #webdesigners #uxui #uxdesigning #designstudent #userexperiencedesign #designportfolio #designeducation #uxinspiration #userinterfacedesigner