Kickstart Your UX Design Career in 2024: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide 🚀

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Looking to become a UX designer in 2022? This is the video for you! In it, we share the seven essential steps and key learnings that you'll need to start your UX journey today!

Hosted by Maureen Herben (UX.Collection), a product designer and CareerFoundry UX graduate, this video will guide you through the timeline and requirements needed to transform you from complete beginner into a job-ready UX designer within a realistic timeframe.

🚨 Quick disclaimer 🚨 This won’t be an “easy” task, and in terms of time allocation, if you follow these steps, you can expect this journey to take up to a year to complete.

Let us know in the comments which steps you’re most excited by! Are there any steps you would add in based on your own career change journey?

In this guide, we’ll cover the following key points:

(00:00) Intro

(01:15) Step 1: Ask Yourself: "Is UX For Me?"

(03:34) Step 2: Learn About UX Design Methods and Processes

(11:06) Step 3: Structure Your Learning With a Credible UX Course

(18:10) Step 4: Practise As Much As You Can

(21:51) Step 5: Learn the Tools of the Trade

(23:21) Step 6: Network With Other Designers

(25:26) Step 7: Generate Some Projects For Your Portfolio

(27:04) Bonus: Three More Tips

(28:25) Outro + Next Steps

Links & resources featured in the video:

🛠 IDEO’s Design Thinking toolkit:
https://designthinking.ideo.com/

✏️ Design Tool - Figma
https://www.figma.com/

📝 Client Brief Generators:
1️⃣ https://fakeclients.com/briefs/ux-design
2️⃣ https://www.uxchallenge.co/
3️⃣ https://challenge.whatdesigncando.com/challenge/briefing-generator/

Want to get a taste of UX design? Start your journey with CareerFoundry’s free UX Design Short Course: https://bit.ly/StartYourUXJourneyToday

For an in-depth read on all of these topics you can find a corresponding article over on CareerFoundry’s blog: https://bit.ly/GetStartedInUXDesignArticle

Thanks so much for watching!

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Become A UX Designer From Scratch - Full Walkthrough (2022)
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