Referral Request (Product Design New Grad 1yoe)
Hello friends, I’m a recent Product Design grad from a top design uni with about a year of internship + contractor experience (Fortune 500, unicorn startup, etc) hoping to ask for a referral. I offer user research, UX, UI, graphic, and motion design experience and HTML & CSS skills. I’ve been told that I’m extremely hardworking and that I have a great eye for design. Please let me know if you’d be interested and I can DM you my portfolio link and resume to help you guage if I’m a good fit at your company. :) Thank you for your time! I appreciate any help.
Message me your resume
Messaged! :)
DM me your resume if you'd like to work at VMware
Super interested in cloud computing. DM'd! :)
Question for you - you claim to be great at research and UI design as well. Those are two wildly different ends of the design spectrum (in my opinion). Do you actually lean one way or do you really feel strong in all areas? Also where are you located I may be hiring in the near future :)
I feel ux designer has to perform both of the responsibilities, so they can have conversation in the same language with researchers. I interned at a startup in New york where I had to do research, design (UI) and take management decisions as well.now I am graduating in 10 days from University of Maryland Baltimore county with HCI master's degree.
Great question and you're probably right. Product designers may not research as deeply and rigorously as user research specialists do, but some of the best product designers that I've met can conduct enough user research (user interviews, usability tests, etc.) to discover areas for improvement and quickly design and prototype solutions. It also allows them to empathize with other specialists in product development. I also feel that my ability and desire to talk to people first-hand and understand their needs, desires, and experiences with the product helps me design solutions with more nuance and clarity, but there are probably gaps in my technique and research toolbox. I'd say that I'm a T-shaped designer who's done user research and UI with positive results and is very interested in user research, but whose expertise lies in designing interactions/user flows/UI. I'd love to hear more thoughts on T-shaped designers and generalists. It's a very interesting question- hoping to learn more about other designers' experiences. Also, I'm in LA at the moment :)
Would love to connect with you. I’m moving back to LA after almost 2 years working as a product designer in a unicorn fintech startup and a SAP partner that builds B2B ecommerce sites - both based out here in Asia Pacific.
Hey I am in the same boat , want to connect?
DM'd! :)