sell yourselves better
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Plans Head of UX, Jason Mesut has also been doing his bit to quell the UX talent drought. His talk to UX newbies at General Assembly on what employers are looking for, has also been a hit online (view on Slideshare). On top of this, Jason has been working with some other leaders in the field to develop a course on digital Experience Design for Hyper Island.TRANSCRIPT
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
Understanding yourself and what employers look
for when hiring UX talent 7 January 2013
Jason Mesut
Head of User Experience
Plan
Sell yourselves better
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
Sell yourselves better
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Sell yourselves better
Head of User Experience
at Plan
1. Front-end innovation
2. Design management
@jasonmesut
slideshare.com/jasonmesut
plan.bz
betteruxportfolios.com
Jason Mesut
Jason MesutHead of User Experience
Jason heads up our Product Service Strategy and User Experience Management team here at Plan.
In addition to his extensive consulting experience he is a renowned industry speaker and UX community leader.
Introducing...
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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
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Some of my clients
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
Sell yourselves better
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
1. Passion
2. Curiosity
3. Design skills
4. Critical thinking
5. Appreciation of other disciplines
6. Understanding of an ever-widening domain
7. Self awareness
8. Professional attitude
* I am on a hiring break after my last two roles (and this was off the top of my head this morning)
** Vision, curiosity, divergent thinking, iteration and sweating the details
What I look for*
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
Sell yourselves better
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Perfect EA poster
Created in 2005 for Euro IA so needs an update
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Soft skills
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Body metaphor
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Profile wheels
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UX quadrants
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
Evolved from an Adaptive Path model and in use at LBi, The Team, and RMA
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UX quadrants
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
Insight and big picture
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UX quadrants
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
User Interface craft
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UX quadrants
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
Conceptual, design, feel
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UX quadrants
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
Analysis, rigour, logic
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Provenance
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
Industrial design
Business consulting, Marketing HCI
Psychology
Software design
Web design
Business strategy
Market research
Design research
Library science
Design strategy
Device interface design
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Models as drawn by team members at RMA
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Models as drawn by team members at RMA
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Models as drawn by team members at RMA
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Have a go
Understand your shapeMap yourself against the different dimensions
Your name Date
URUser Research
ExSExperienceStrategy
IAInformationArchitecture
IxDInteraction Design
www.plan.bz
Name and date
Draw a shape Fill out the wheel
URUser Research
ExSExperienceStrategy
IAInformationArchitecture
IxDInteraction Design
Jason 7 Jan 2014
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UX double diamond
ExSExperience
Strategy
IxDInteraction
Design
URUser
Research
IAInformation Architecture
VLVisual
Language
MGMotion
Graphics
IDInformation
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
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General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive
My background
What I look for
Profiling
Portfolio
Sell yourselves better
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See more at: betteruxportfolios.com
1. Portfolio rant
2. Portfolio tips handout
3. Sell yourself better presentation
@jasonmesut
slideshare.com/jasonmesut
plan.bz
Portfolio
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Come together - bridging the physical-digital divide
We join the dots
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