Honest Design Talks

By Anfisa Bogomolova and Ioana TeleanuArts Design

Honest Design Talks episodes

October 12, 2022 #60 Surviving in a very technical company
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Discussed in this episode:
How to survive without fully grasping what’s the product is about?
How to work in a complex technical environment?
What are the strategies that can improve your workflow on projects that are very technical? How to facilitate a new way of thinking?
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42 min
October 04, 2022 #59 UX design conferences
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Discussed in this episode:
How to find and choose the right type of design events for you?
What is the criteria for choosing conferences?
What are the pros and cons of design conferences?

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35 min
September 28, 2022 #58 Should designers learn how to code?
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Discussed in this episode:
Do designers need to know how to code in order to succeed in today’s marketplace compared to the time when UX was establishing as a field?
How coding can come in handy for the designer and enhance your capabilities? In what aspect of design work, coding knowledge can be very useful? What are design specialisations that might require coding?
Anfi and Ioanna’s stories of how coding can be complimentary when building design systems
Will classic design tools evolve into web design tools?

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35 min
September 20, 2022 #57 Typical mistakes designers are doing while applying for a job
Discussed in this episode:
In this episode, Denis a founder of figura.digital shares a lot of insights, real stories and advice on how to successfully land a job in design industry.
• How Denis came up and developed the idea of Figure.digital?
• What are the stages of interviewing process to get on the figura.digital platform? What are the interview questions you can expect? You will be quite surprised by some of them...
• What are the most common mistakes designers do during interviews? What things you can prepare before the interview to increase the chances of your success?
• What are the traits of successful designers that you can develop?

Links:
Portfolio and Interview Prep Checklist by Denis
Article on Universally High-Signal Interview Questions
Video on how Ran Segal got rejected 60 times before getting a design internship

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44 min
September 07, 2022 #56 Freelancing as a UX Designer
Discussed in this episode:
What aspects are essential for finding freelance work?
What is the process of getting on Toptal?
What are the platforms for finding freelance work? What are the challenges you might encounter there?
What are the other ways of getting freelance work apart from online platforms?
Anfi's story of how she started her career with freelancing and Ioanna's story of how she got into Toptal.

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31 min
August 30, 2022 #55 Future of UX design. Will robots steal our jobs?
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• What are the trends in the market right now that help us to understand what to expect in 10 years?
• How can we prepare for the future of AI and design?
• How can we still be competitive with robots and stay valuable in the market? What skills might and might not be replaced by AI?

Discussed in this episode:
New Layer Podcast
Mark McElhaw's article ‘Saving the Experience… with a bit of Drama’.

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37 min
June 13, 2022 #54 Retaining joy with side projects w/Design Life
• Who are the hosts of Design Life podcast and their side projects
• How do they retain joy from their side projects

🎙 Listen to Design Life podcast

🗂 Femke's content projects:
Instagram
YouTube
Community
🗂 Charli's content projects:
Instagram
YouTube
Website

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June 08, 2022 #53 UX Writing w/Yuval Keshtcher
• What is UX writing? How UX writing is different from copywriting?
• What is the difference between UX design and UX writing?
• How does collaboration between UX writers and UX designers look like? Do UX writers also propose user flows?
• How does UX writing process look like?
• What are the current UX writing standards or common practices?
• What tools, software and plug-ins UX writers commonly use?
• How to pursue career as a UX writer? What's an ideal background for a UX writer? How to transition from UX design to UX writing?
• How does UX writers portfolio look like?
• What are education program recommendations to become UX writer?
Discussed in this episode:
UX writing Hub
UX writing academy
Microcopy & UX Writing Facebook group
Podcast ‘Writers in Tech’
Funny and ridiculous UX title generator
Useful Figma Plugins for UX Writers:
Writer for Figma
Frontitude
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🎓 Mento academy Bootcamp by Ioana
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38 min
May 24, 2022 #52 Micromanagement at the workplace
• Why micromanagement is a problem? In what way it can impact individual contributors on a daily basis?
• What are the implications of dealing with micro management working style?
• What are the signs of micromanagement you can look out for? Can those signs be spot during the job hunting process?
• Constructive ways of dealing with micromanagement.
• Is skill set of a good designer similar to a skill set of a good manager?
• Top 6 takeaways

This Episode's sponsor:
💻 3D Design tool Spline
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39 min
May 17, 2022 #51 Working with old-school designers
• Does work experience in terms of number of years translates into competence?
• How to deal with senior designers who are defensive or have ego issues?
• What Senior designers can learn from Juniors?
• Top 6 takeaways

This Episode's sponsor:
💻 3D Design tool Spline

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43 min

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Honest weekly conversations about Product Design careers, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things tech + design. Ioana and Anfisa together have 20 years of experience in the Product Design field and trying to share their main lessons to help anyone who's looking for a safe space with sincere and practical career advice.