Honest Design Talks

By Anfisa Bogomolova and Ioana TeleanuArts Design

Honest Design Talks episodes

March 09, 2021 #11 Impostor syndrome for UX designers
Let's be honest, we've all experienced it to a certain extent. In this episode, we'd like to open up on our impostor stories and how they've actually made us better designers.
Here are the bullet points:

➡️ What is impostor syndrome?
➡️ Where impostor syndrome is coming from?
➡️ What are the common impostor symptoms?
➡️ Opening up about our impostor stories
➡️ Is impostor syndrome actually good for us?
➡️ Top 6 takeaways
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49 min
March 03, 2021 #10 UX design ladder. Career levels, stages & titles
UX industry didn’t reach a maturity level yet.
Thus, the design career ladder might look quite confusing and messed up for anyone who embarked themselves on it.
Let’s try to break down design career levels, stages & titles.
➡️ Our personal UX careers & what’s next for us?
➡️ Typical UX career journey and its stages
➡️ How can you define your level, stage, and title?
➡️ Can you measure your level in years?
➡️ Top 6 key takeaways
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Check this great resource to get inspired by some great designers who chose not a managerial career development track.
➡️staff.design
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42 min
February 23, 2021 #9 UX design education
⬇️Let's talk education

➡️Do you need formal education?
➡️How did we learn UX design?
➡️3+1 main learning components
➡️Do you need a mentor?
➡️Learning persona exercise
➡️TOP 6 main takeaways
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Our programs:
🎓Online course and mentorship by Anfisa
www.uxforfreelancers.com
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Mentoring program by Ioana
Coming soon!
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🗂Design brief generators:
1️⃣sharpen.design
2️⃣ uplabs.com/challenges
3️⃣ www.uxchallenge.co
4️⃣designercize.com
5️⃣productdesigninterview.com
6️⃣goodbrief.io
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47 min
February 16, 2021 #8 UX design portfolio
🔥Portfolio...maybe the only project that is never complete.
Let's talk about how we've approached the building portfolio and what we've learned from not having an official website portfolio.

➡️Our portfolio stories
➡️ When you should build a portfolio
➡️ What format it should be
➡️What content should be in it
➡️Top 6 takeaways
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48 min
February 09, 2021 #7 Reflection on 2020 and plans for 2021
This is the last episode about 2020, we promise! Even though it's a little belated discussion, we've recorded it at the end of December and really wanted to share with you the honest behind-the-scenes ups&downs we went through and how those lessons shaped our 2021 goals!

➡️Ioana shares bits about life after the childbirth
➡️Our TOP3 achievements in 2020
➡️Our TOP3 failures in 2020
➡️Our TOP3 goals for 2021
➡️Sharing our fears coming into 2021
💡Let us know what are your goals for 2021 on our Instagram page @honest_ux_talks.

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47 min
February 02, 2021 #6 Starting a new job in 2020
In this episode, I wanted to share how did it felt to start a new job in 2020 in the product company being fully remote.
⚠️ Spoiler alert: It was definitely not easy for an offline extroverted person.
Also, it's the first experimental episode alone.
➡️Pre-history and why I started a new job
➡️The choice: Product company vs Toptal
➡️️Connecting with the team online
➡️️Struggles of an extrovert working online
➡️️Understanding a complex product
➡️️What I've learned

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26 min
January 26, 2021 #5 Mental health. Burnout. Bare minimun | w/Gabriel Kirmaier as UXbites
2020 is FINALLY behind! But after such a rollercoaster year, we've all left feeling a little burnout or et least mentally drained. In this episode, we've invited our friend Gabriel Kirmaier (@uxbites) to discuss why he took the whole 2020 year OFFline and how it impacted his productivity.
👨🏻‍💻Gabriels' Instagram account instagram.com/uxbites
➡️Gabriel's' story of a social media disappear
➡️Why are we allowing ourselves to overwork?
➡️Super-productivity vs Bare-minimum
➡️Does strategy lead to burnout?
➡️Our burnout stories
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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53 min
January 19, 2021 #4 Do you need an online presence?
Seems like during 2019-20 EVERY designer in the world started their social media pages, but not every designer stuck around.
In this episode let's discuss if it's worth creating your SM presence and if yes, then why?
➡️ Why starting your own SM presence?
➡️Our social media blogs stories
➡️ Does it make sense to start your social media in 2021?
➡️Does SM help you to land new freelance clients?
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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57 min
January 05, 2021 #3 UX design processes
If you google UX design processes, you’ll receive about 481,000,000 search results.
So what design processes do we usually follow and what is their actual value?
➡️ Design thinking and Double diamond
➡️ UX process stages
➡️ How UX processes differ from a small to big companies
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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44 min
January 04, 2021 #2 Defining UX design
UX design sounds very broad and even ambiguous.
In this episode let's try to understand why is it so and what does UX really mean?
➡️ Our UX design definitions and how we explain it to our Moms
➡️ UX designer vs UX design industry
➡️ What is good UX?
➡️ Examples of good UX for us
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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48 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.