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3 ways to grow your design career
To gain more experience FAST.
Do this by freelancing outside your day-to-day job. Here’s how:
- Reaching out to your network (friends, family, LinkedIn network, etc.)
- Offer your UX services for cheap or FREE
- Get testimonials after your design work is complete
- Alternatively, start side projects and treat it as a real product
- Experiment with the UX process as much as possible and repeat (this part is critical)
To train your brain and think like a UXer.
There are a million ways to learn or prove you can do the job:
- Show your work and experience in your portfolio
- Document your UX journey and learning on social media
- Info is everywhere podcast, Youtube, Medium, newsletters, socials
Leverage existing opportunities in your organisation.
- Ask for more responsibilities
- Push yourself to friendly compete with your senior design counterparts (it’s super motivating)
- Show up and actively look for problems to solve, even beyond your daily tasks (like improving communication with marketing)
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