Interviews/ interviewing
Preparation
Script
- extra questions
- give yourself 3 key points you want to focus on
Observers
- someone listening in taking notes
The kit
- eye contact
Your manner
- put people at ease, making yourself seem trustworthy → appear neutral to the key parts of the interview
4 a day max
- each interview tends to be an hour
After the interviews
- write up, assess, talk to observer, 100k at transcript, think about back up
Discovery workshop
- aperson in ux starts off the project → show what you knau →
- have a set of interactives on miro → drag the answer
they want into the answer box
Advice
- Uses: figma, figma mirror, figjam, miro, keynote, slides, powerpoint
- data: excel, google sheets
- meetings: typically 8-12 hours of meehngs per week
- Ux follows a process – businesses want to move faster.
- educate people en the value of what you do and why it’s
- Important →
- “lets test when we go live” X
- “ask what people want… a faster horse” X
- “I know what users want, i’m the…” X
- practice giving and recieving feedback
- justifying your desgns to indifferent /bored people
- you are not your idea
- seek out people who are willing to level with you.
- Here’s what the solution should be rather than the problem to be solved
Money
- reasons for your value
- research the standard rate
- shows your past experiences
Top 10 tips
- Be nice (but not a pushover) → who you know is really important
- work with talented people –
- work with people smarter better than you
- ask to sit in on a client presentation
- Challenge people → respectfully
- be open to people challenging you
- you’re an expert
- you have advantages → young, new, up for it, grown up with apps → Go for it → It’s a marathon, not a sprint
- Be reliable – What does your manager value?
- you will mess up → it doesn’t matter
- ask why → don’t just be receptive, be perspective and proactive
- empathy
- introvert & extrovert
- inward & outward
- facing team & solo
- what you will never know, is what people are like under pressure