A presentation I pulled together for General Assembly's UX Design Immersive course in London.
I pulled the presentation together in a morning from some old and emerging thinking. Hoping to progress soon, so any feedback greatly received.
Sell yourselves better: What a UX employer looks for
1. General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Understanding yourself and what employers look
for when hiring UX talent
2 April 2014
Jason Mesut
Head of User Experience
Plan
Sell yourselves better
3. Sell yourselves better
Head of User Experience
at Plan
!
!
@jasonmesut
slideshare.com/jasonmesut
slideshare.com/planstrategic
plan.bz
betteruxportfolios.com
Jason Mesut
4. Sell yourselves better
Industrial Design
Brunel
!
!
In-house
Yell.com (Yellow Pages)
!
Management/IT consultancy
PA Consulting
!
User-centred design / research consultancy
Flow (now Foolproof)
!
Digital design marketing consultancy / agency
LBi
The Team
RMA Consulting
Previously
27. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants:
2005 - 2013
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
Evolved from an Adaptive Path model and in use at LBi, The Team, and RMA
28. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
Insight and
big picture
29. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
User
Interface
craft
30. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
Conceptual,
design, feel
31. Sell yourselves better
UX quadrants
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
Analysis,
rigour, logic
36. Sell yourselves better
Have a go
Understand your shape
Map yourself against the different
dimensions
Your name Date
UR
User
Research
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IA
Information
Architecture
IxD
Interaction
Design
www.plan.bz
Name and date
Draw a shape Fill out the wheel
UR
User
Research
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IA
Information
Architecture
IxD
Interaction
Design
Jason 7 Jan 2014
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UX double diamond
ExS
Experience
Strategy
IxD
Interaction
Design
UR
User
Research
IA
Information
Architecture
VL
Visual
Language
MG
Motion
Graphics
ID
Information
Design
A work in
progress
Developed at RMA, currently being evolved at Plan
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UX layers
RMA’s disciplines of User Experience
Visual Language
Motion Graphics
Information Design
Interaction Design
Experience Strategy
User Research
Information Architecture
What user
perceives
Big D
Little d
UX
UI