The truth about UX designer salaries in tech
Find out if you’re getting paid fairly and start your salary negotiation right. In 2019, my starting salary as a new grad UX designer living in Toronto was $76,500.
Find out if you’re getting paid fairly and start your salary negotiation right. In 2019, my starting salary as a new grad UX designer living in Toronto was $76,500.
Behance and Adobe Portfolio are the two main ways that Adobe has helped creatives share their work elsewhere. While both look quite similar on paper, they have a fair number of differences that you need to keep in mind.
If design teams had a ceremonial initiation process, watching a stakeholder trash something that you’ve spent countless hours building would be it. But rejection is inescapable when we’re making multiple variants for every module of every single project, perpetually.
Ah yes, the perennial question (or argument depending on your point of view) that provides endless nourishment for the design Twitterati and design influencers. It’s a moot discussion, of course, because—surprise—logos matter, maybe now more so than ever. Now that I’m on my soapbox, I’d like to argue that case, and explain through my own creative process how a successful logo is created, from the initial sketch right through to…
Out of the 138 portfolios submitted, 125 was screened. If you’re part of the 13 that I didn’t review, it’s because you’re a UX writer, UX engineer or a UX consultancy business. I do not have the expertise to review portfolios for writers and engineers, and reviewing UX businesses is something I would not do for free (sorry).
Empowering non-researchers to collect client feedback can pave the way to better products and customer retention.
It’s natural to feel like you don’t belong or that others may know more than you do. But that’s not true. This is what’s known as imposter syndrome and it can affect anyone, regardless of their skill level or experience.
I got my first job at 25. I was fresh out of college and really glad to have landed a job at a bank that had its headquarters in my hometown. They later told me that there were more than 150 candidates lined up for it. The salary was very good for the living standards in Slovenia back at the time but I left only 18 months later. I realised…
Mozilla, publishers of Firefox, acquired the team behind AI-based workplace collaboration product Pulse, announcing that they will work on Mozilla’s growing portfolio of products.
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