Designers🎤alk #17 with Tony Daussat(Lead Experience Design Strategist, Podcast Host, Mentor) | PHASE 2

Date: November 15, 2020

Tony is an Experience Designer and a host of a ‘Liftoff” podcast. He’s a UX coach of “Hired UX” wherein he helps UX people to get hired. Apart from this, he brings lot of interesting stuffs through his social media posts and podcast.

Q1. How’s your “Inspirational” transition from Actor to Designer? How you did this?

When I was in NYC I started taking headshot photos of my actor friends, then turned into websites for actors, and branding and websites for family and friends with business.

I doubled down and the path became clear after those years.

Q2: What’s your role as a Design Strategist?

I traded pixels and prototypes for whiteboards and facilitation.

The strategy is all about research, identifying business goals and user needs, information architecture, and driving home the process to create the best in class experiences.

Q3: What’s the most important step for you in the Design Thinking process and why?

Although all are paramount. The first, of course, is the most important. Empathy. “Seek to understand before being understood.”

Q4: What are your criteria before rejecting as well as accepting any UX Designer’s portfolio?

I want to see how you think. If I never saw another final product on a portfolio ever again, that’d be fine by me.

(Side note: typically people will still want to see the final product, but personally, I don’t care.)

Q5: If I don’t have the portfolio then how you’ll judge me as a UX Designer?

Well, you definitely need a portfolio. I need at least something to look at that represents your process and thinking.

That being said, live brainstorming and problem-solving in the room is extremely telling.

Q6: What is better, freelance, or Job or agency?

Depends on what type of work and lifestyle you want.

I’ve done all three, and for me, the pace and diversity of work the agency/firm trajectory feels like the best fit.

Q7: Please put some light on “Good UX is a good business”.

Simply put — If you don’t have a good user experience with the product, people won’t use the product.

When people happily use the product, the business gets applauded by users — not by clapping, but with their money.

Q8: How we can design an accessible product. What’re the few things we have to keep in mind while doing this?

There are many different plug-ins, websites, and resources for checking WCAG guidelines and requirements.

Designers should be as familiar with accessibility standards as they are the design principles.

Thank you 🙏 Tony💚⁣⁣⁣ for giving your precious time
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