Shit You Should Know If You Are New in UX Business!
*This post includes career tips for newbies in UX.
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3 min readMar 16, 2016
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Must Do’s
Always keep a notebook handy, learn UX terminology, read 5 Planes of UX, read Gestalt Principles, read UX myths, create your own website, observe people around you, know the difference between qualitative and quantitative research, know about heuristics, learn how to create a mind map
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Flow These Blogs, Websites, People, and Groups To Learn & Keep Yourself Updated.
Connectedreams, D’source, M. Ranjan’s Blog, Smashing Magazine, Behance, Dribble, Information is Beautiful, UX Magazine, Little Big Details, NN Group, Zurb Blog, Product Hunt, Mobile App Reviews, Dark Patterns Blog, Internet of Things, Interaction IXDA, Difference Between Responsive and Adaptive Design, Gesture Library, Don Norman, Louis Rosenfeld, Steve Krug, Jacob Nielsen, Luke Wroblewski
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Read These Books
Don’t Make Me Think — Steve Krug, Human Centered Design, UXPin’s e-books, The Laws of Simpilicity, This is Service Design Thinking, Rosenfeld Media’s Book, Handbook of Usability Testing, Baymard E-commerce Reports, Customer Experience Reports, “Netnography: Doing Etnographic Research Online”
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Online/Offline Courses That You Can Take:
Human Computer Interaction, Design Thinking Action Lab, Free UX Courses on Udemy, Tools like Flinto / Pixate, HTML 10, Affinity mapping1, Get Agile 101 Course, Get Gamification Course, Google Analytics Certificate, Groupinar — Web Video Seminars
100+ Crowdsourced Learning Resources. ← See The Full List Here
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Create a Network, Find Role Models and Mentors Around Your Skills & Learning.
Expand your network, find peers, seniors with common dreams, career goals at Connectedreams.com
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