Junior ux designer jobs
Luis Mendoza, Creative Director at KrossoverĪs a hiring manager, I'm not always looking to hire someone who's got years and years of experience. Junior UX designers don’t tend to know all the points I mentioned above, but if they are able to tell me how they got a project from point A to point Z and what problems were presented and solved along the way, that definitely appeals to my point of view.
How does the person applying to the position begin and end a project? What are the first steps they take to build out the user experience? Do they create a mood board for any visuals, do they create a clickable prototype in InVision, and are they familiar with the process of getting a static design into a functional website?
If the interviewee’s experience isn’t up to par with what we’re looking for, the next thing I focus on is project process. When we start the hiring process for a UX designer at Krossover, the first thing that catches my eye is their work history. Stephanie Finken, Senior UI Designer at VISANOW Global Immigration If you have a hard time communicating with those around you, you will likely have a hard time communicating with your designs as well. It could be a task we'd like them to do or an emotion or experience we want them to leave with.
As designers we want our designs, whether web application or print designs, to communicate something to our audience. I also believe that design is centered around communication. Being curious is important so you can understand why something was done a certain way while also being open to try new ideas. We don't necessarily want to design and build something one way just because we've always done it that way. Curiosity can make you a good learner and it often means you question the status quo, which I think can be really valuable when building online experiences. I look for people who are naturally curious and good communicators. Giles Phillips, Product/Design Lead at Tamr Also, I love to see creative work from other fields and interests! I like to hire for instinct and motivation and enable junior talent to develop their tool skills on the job. In terms of portfolio, one good mobile project is all I need to get excited about a junior candidate. Great candidates have curiosity about and passion for what motivates users, and they're motivated to learn and improve they have good work ethic.Ĭonversely, I'm less concerned about specific tool skills or ability to code. I've never built a UX team of purely "design school" grads -I'm a big fan of career-changers who are junior at design but can map in their prior experiences to help support their design activities. A great candidate brings a unique background or set of experiences into the team, because that improves our creative diversity. I assess their level of talent: how easily they can generate design solutions, and how they choose the "best" solution. If I'm interviewing a candidate, something that matters a lot to me is instinct for design as a mode for solving problems. Of course, there is no singular "junior UX designer skill set," but a few characteristics stood out, such as stellar communication skills, a knack for solving problems with design, and a hunger to understand what makes users "tick." Read on to hear from these hiring managers on how they identify great potential in new designers: UX design is an emerging discipline, and candidates for junior roles are often unsure of what technical skills/ how much design experience they'll need to land their first UX design job. We asked seven instructors in our web design course who have interviewed, hired, and trained UX designers about what they like to see in candidates for junior roles. Design must also align with business goals, which is why UX designers need to constantly balance empathy for the end user with cognizance of the overarching business strategy. Design is about solving problems for people, not making things look pretty. Craigslist is the epitome of a hugely popular product, despite unappealing aesthetics.