Become a UX Designer in the Post Covid Age

<p>After working for over 10 years as a graphic and multimedia designer, I moved to a new country without local working experience, let alone UX experience. This was a challenging but stimulating move. I taught myself UX in a few months and landed my first UX job with NZ’s top fitness company. Now, I’m a UX/UI mentor for 2 leading tech boot camps in the world. I designed my UX career and made it happened. You’ll learn all the secrets in this talk/workshop session.In this talk/workshop, the audience will get many useful insights to help them find out the best way to learn UX skills and knowledge, and get a plan of how to land a UX job as well. I’ll share the tested and proved strategies to help the audience creating a personal roadmap to becoming a UX designer in post covid age.Hi,Thank you for signing up for this talk/workshop!I’m super excited to do this session with you as I saw the challenges and struggles I had when I transitioned my career to product/UX design were not alone. As a self-taught designer and a design mentor who’s helping quite a few people in their design career, I understand the blocker on your designer journey, and I want to help.Apology for the late following up – I’m doing this all by myself alone between my work hours and parenting time, and it’s 100% free. I got a lot of help and support during my design journey, and I want to share back; that’s why I started this workshop and talk. It might not, actually, it will not be perfect, but I believe many people will find it helpful, as I “tested” it on other offline events before.Agenda- Offline Workshop (for Aucklanders): Decoding Designer Hiring Process, 9:30AM – 12:00PM, 29 May, Saturday (NZST, UTC+12)- Online Talk(Google Meet): 4 Pillars to Start a UX Designer Career in 2021 – 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM, 29 May, Saturday (NZST, UTC+12)- Link: http://meet.google.com/nxw-gdjk-hkj- Online Workshop: Decoding Designer Hiring Process, 10:00AM – 12:00PM, 6 June, Sunday (NZST, UTC+12)- Link: http://meet.google.com/nxw-gdjk-hkjWhat we will doWorkshop: Decoding Designer Hiring Process – to help you understand how designers get hired, the personas of hiring managers, recruiters, and connecters, what the hiring process is, and how you can tailor your story to match the hiring process. After this workshop, you will create a personal plan to help you get more interviews.As we have many people who can’t join the offline workshop at Roam Digital in Auckland, we will host an online workshop in the upcoming weekend. It would be the same workshop via Google Meet; feel free to join any one of them.Talk: 4 Pillars to Start a UX Designer Career in 2021 – to share how I get started as a self-taught UX Designer and my strategies for building a future-proof career. After this session, you will learn my 4-pillar-strategy to start your designer career in 2021.For the people who have joined the UX Auckland meetup on 20 May, these two talk sessions are pretty similar. It’s alright if you want to skip it, but you might get more insights this time :)RecordingWe’ll share the recordings later after the workshop and talk to those who can’t make it. But you might lose many interactions, so try to join the live ones if you can :)PreparationBefore joining the workshop/talk, I’d like you to do a 1-min survey so that I can better prepare to help you. Please check the link below – literally, just 1 minute!https://forms.gle/QSbicnKAHWBzmUqbAI know you might have other questions, you can join this Slack channel to have a chat with me or other guys:https://join.slack.com/t/slack-tnl9565/shared_invite/zt-qrrod7me-zb0Ub_urEdzIK1EqHc4P6gYou can also send an email to bear@beartalking.com (I might not get back to you immediately, but I’ll try asap)Wrap up (you need to do these):- Complete the survey so that we can know who will come to the offline workshop, who will join online.- Join the Slack channel to keep updated- Enjoy the sessions!Thanks for reading this long post, and look forward to meeting you in person/on screen!Bear Liu</p>