General Assembly User Experience Design Immersive

Understanding yourself and what employers look

for when hiring UX talent 2 April 2014

Jason MesutHead of User ExperiencePlan

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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Head of User Experience

at Plan

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@jasonmesut

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Jason Mesut

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Industrial Design

Brunel !!

In-house Yell.com (Yellow Pages)

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Management/IT consultancy PA Consulting

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User-centred design / research consultancy

Flow (now Foolproof)

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Digital design marketing consultancy / agency LBi

The Team

RMA Consulting

Previously

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Some of my clients

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Plan

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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What I’ve always looked for*

Empathy

Critical thinking

Self awareness

Professionalism

UnderstandingCuriosity

Design skillsPassion

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Interest

Vocation

Opinion

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Passion

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Curiosity

Divergent ideation

Convergent concepting

Making tangible

Iteration

Graft of craft

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Design skills

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Interest

Discovery

Exploration

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Curiosity

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Ever widening domain

Ability to reassure

Ability to flip perspective

Build confidence

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Understanding

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Recognition of others

Respect of value

Respect in conflict

Balanced empathy

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Empathy

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Ever widening domain

Ability to flip perspective

Hold on to some constants

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Self awareness

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Cynical optimism

Probing popular rhetoric

Seeing possibilities

Foreseeing challenges

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Critical thinking

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Service provider

Honesty

Organisation

Diligence

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Professionalism

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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Soft skills determine

how you think, make and

interact with others

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Profiling

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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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User Experience is made

up of a mix of disciplines,

practices and titles.

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Profiling

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Understanding your

shape and how you want

to develop is really useful

throughout your career

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Profiling

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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

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UX quadrants

ExS Experience

Strategy

IxD Interaction

Design

UR User

Research

IA Information Architecture

Insight and big picture

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UX quadrants

ExS Experience

Strategy

IxD Interaction

Design

UR User

Research

IA Information Architecture

User Interface craft

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UX quadrants

ExS Experience

Strategy

IxD Interaction

Design

UR User

Research

IA Information Architecture

Conceptual, design, feel

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UX quadrants

ExS Experience

Strategy

IxD Interaction

Design

UR User

Research

IA Information Architecture

Analysis, rigour, logic

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Provenance

ExS Experience

Strategy

IxD Interaction

Design

UR User

Research

IA Information 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

Models as drawn by team members at RMA

Models as drawn by team members at RMA

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

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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

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

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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See more at: betteruxportfolios.com

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1. Portfolio rant

2. Portfolio tips handout

3. Sell yourself better presentation

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@jasonmesut

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