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Same here, I lived where there is no snow / seasons. Two years ago, I learned snowboarding and I eventually became decent at it. After a trip to Colorado and experiencing the powder, I felt in love with the sport. This became my favorite sport, it's more efficient than meditation, I'm at peace when going down the slopes. I'm trying to move to Colorado (or California) to be able to practice more.

That's been on my TODO for a long time... How do you figure out the condidate rejection rate?

The basic rules should be documented in the style guide, design system, and/or libraries. What would be interesting is to bridge the gap between the Invision Specs and what you expect.

Indeed, I ran a survey on 8 devs, and I've been monitoring how they typically use it over the years (Invision, Zeplin, basic screenshot hosting...). Some Devs won't use the specs at all, sometimes delivering something off. Others, love it since it will reduce the back and forth during audits.

You're right, specs will only be usefull to provide the dimensions and colors. However, this part is automated on the UX side, it prevents us from writing it down, which would be a waste of time: Mockups always change, we'd have to manually update the said specs so many times... This wouldn't scale well.

There are two aspects, the tools and the knowledge. What people recommend above will just teach UI (How to build), but not UX (why to build it this way and how to approach the problem).

For the tools, it's like in software engineering, you need pick the your "stack" (which wil depends on the goals and deliverable). Do NOT use Paint / Photoshop to build mockups, you will waste your time and hate your job. Get a Sketch License, find a good tutorial online (Udemy and co).

To master the field, study the fundamentals: cognitive sciences, human factors, cognitive ergonomics and design patterns, the goal is to understand how the brain works, perception, memory, decision making, limits...

Basic computer science is going to give an edge.

Basic knowledge in experiment design will be necessary to test your design with rigor (UX Researcher).

From UX perspective, it's one of the best tools for managing the design process. 1-click to update / push mockups from Sketch. Ability to do light interactive mockups, commenting, and CSS specs.

We've been testing most of the tools on the market (Zeplin, UX Pin, Avocode...). InvisionApp beat all of them.

Location: CT / NY Area

Remote: Yes

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Actively looking for a UX/Product Designer position. I have a broad tech experience (Building Design systems, research, eye tracking, tactile feedbacks...). Over 12 years of experience in Software (Java, web, mobile) and Cognitive engineering (Human Factor, User centered design).

Startup, corporate and research experience.

I think that planes refuel at each trip. They wouldn’t have the choice.

The economy in France has been anemic and never really recovered since the last crash (high unemployment). Lots of hard working french people are struggling. They feel that they are not being listen to.

Source? I don’t think you are correct. I’m French living in the US. Median net income is around 1,700 euro. Most people I know make around 1300-1900. And many retired are bellow 1k euro... People are pissed because they are struggling, and have nothing left at the end of the month. Politicians keep rising taxes, while cutting it for the rich.

You can get a simple prescription at the first consultation. For what I remember 10yrs ago, to see a specialist, you need to go to you general practitioner first. Then he will decide if you need a referral.

Edit: you can go directly to a specialist or not follow the « health path », you will just get less reimbursed. Some specialist can be seen without referral (gyn, psy...)

This is the MSRP, you can usually find way lower than that. I start with Auto trader, with a search radius of 200 miles + filters.

https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/New+Cars/cars+under...

Did you take into account that the Mustangs can be negociated at a good 20% off if done at a proper time? E.g. previous year model, mid-year cycle / during the winter. Seems like it would put it on par with the Tesla. I heard that the Tesla's are not negociable (I may be wrong).

There are brand new Ford Mustangs for 19.5K (2018, manual, v4 Turbo). The v8 can be found at 28K. I'd imagine that it may go a bit lower with negociations.

The process to get there takes time. A clever simple solution always look easy to come up with.

Creating Intuitive interfaces has been solved, you need a design centered culture, a good design system, and implementing user centered methodologies (look into human factors, cognitive engineering...)

It takes more investment upfront, but it’s worth it in the long run.

Indeed, not a lot of people know the difference between UI and UX designer, even in tech. To add to the confusion, the profession title is now shifting to “Product Designer”.

A good animation should be barely perceptible. If it’s too slow, the application feels sluggish. Too fast, you may not know what happened. It reminds a UX talk from Airbnb, where they have this one guy that focus only on animations. It’s a good idea to provide the ability to skip the transition with the press of a button. It’s reminds me how one can skip the dialogues in video games.

I keep it easy by using mint (also good to track your net worth), set different alerts on each category. I have automatic transfers to savings accounts (investments, IRA, HSA, safety net...).

For sharing expenses with my other half, we are using Vermo for large items (rent...), we're not tracking minor things. We discussed about a shared credit card for common expenses (groceries...).

Guerilla testing is a great starting point. Do you usualy give one or multiple scenarios to complete? Be aware that you are not controlling the environment and the users may be distracted by outside factors. Which may affect some of your metrics (time to perform tasks, success rate...)

An agency or proper usability testing should provide you insights and ways to correct the usability issues based on the results. What you describe may work to get feedbacks and new feature requests. But you won't know why a user is not using a feature, where they are struggling, what they don't understand or see.

The goal is to detect usability issues. Your features should have user stories associated to them, come up with few scenarios around these (e.g. book a flight, cancel your flight from the landing page...). Then test your scenarios with multiple users/personas. This will allow you to detect UX/usabilities issues, and prioritize update based on how critical the issue is.

All of these alt coins are tied to just few pairs (mostly BTC or ETH). When I was looking at the relationships in different instances (just eye balling, no statistical analysis), it seems that some the coins are just more or less volatile.

The article isn’t drawing a clear line between visual design and design patterns. Many people confuse UI and UX design. One is artistic (UI), the other one is based on cognitive science (UX). UI will define the looks, the interface may be pretty or bold, but not necessarily usable and intuitive. UX design will reduce the gap between human and machine by efficiently implementing design patterns, and user centered methodologies (human factors).

It’s expensive and challengjng to build a culture around design (Airbnb, Apple...) and build new patterns. It’s probably cheaper to just go Wild on the UI, not sure if that would stick though.

That’s great, I’ve been looking for a Sketch 3 plugin that was doing that for a while (it doesn’t exist yet) It could potentially be wrapped in a plugin.

When presenting designs, in some situations you may want to show rough sketches and not high fidelity (or people focus on details rather than the big picture). Something like that would allow me to easily toggle between high fidelity to rough state.

In your case, there would be an overlap. A digital interface is UI. UX is multi disciplinary, it would focus more on the human centered process of building an application that fits the user needs. Ergonomic specialists would take into account the job (task), physical environment, user need, equipement (does the worker wear gloves...). Some are trained to be able to work on both fields (Human factor, cognitive engineer...)

UX could also be called cognitive ergonomics.

Dark Matter: A Novel (Fiction) - One of my favorite SF story so far. https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Matter-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/110...

Principle: Life and Work, Ray Dalio (Business & Decision- Making) - Very interesting and thoughtful book around building a meritocracy. https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Life-Work-Ray-Dalio/dp/150...

I moved from SE to UX because I needed a change from coding 8 hours a day. That's one of the field where I could easily transfer my skills.

The interview process usually requires a portfolio, 2 phone interviews and one onsite interview. I had to talk about previous projects and what was my problem solving process, followed by a case to solve. This was refreshing and way less stressful, a walk in the park compared to the white board interview.

I understand the challenges that hiring managers face, but who has time to spend a day at 5-10 companies to switch job... A lot of companies still offer only 10-15 days vacation a year...

At the end of the day UX is the product, that’s what the customer sees. Maybe you could get away with it with early adopters. A good UX team will help focusing on core features instead of useless ones and optimum experience. For a startups, a good UX designer could validate a MVP in few days without a line of code.

It depends on the use case but loading time is very important. People will engage more with a site where they can move freely and focus on the content rather than a loading page. The longer the loading time the more likely users will click away.

Yes, I travelled a bit, I'm French living in the US.

Let's say that they prohibit it (some establishments do), without proper security screening, it would be easy to sneak anything in if you want to. The cost to implement this type of security seems too high (hardware + employees). The public may also reject that, the TSA is quite infamous in the US.

Have you been in any country that has this type of security in their hotels?

Do you mean that we would need metal detectors at every single hotels? And get your luggages inspected? This is not feasible.