The Truth About Junior UI/UX Designer Career Journey

Perjalanan karier sebagai Junior UI/UX Designer seringkali penuh tantangan dan pembelajaran. Sebagai seorang pemula, Anda akan menemukan diri Anda terlibat dalam proses desain yang kompleks dan seorang Junior UI/UX Designer dapat mengembangkan diri menjadi profesional yang sukses dalam industri desain digital.

1. Junior UI/UX Designer
Career Journey
Rayandra Valera
Product Designer
The Truth About

2. this is
Rayandra
Jul 2023 - now : Designer at Farmio
Nov 2022 - now: Building an Agency
Aug 2021 - Feb 2022: UX Design Intern at tiket.com
May 2021 - Aug 2021: Graphic Design Intern at Instellar Indonesia
Travel, cook, eat, explore, drink coffee, experiment
Current & Previous Work
What I do besides work...
Hello There!

3. Product Designer,
UI/UX Designer
(they’re all the same, probably)

5. Someone who leads or is part of the team
that creates a new product or makes an
existing one better. They take care of the
entire design process. This professional
works in cross-functional teams to address
technical constraints and ensure usability
from ideation to production.
The users' advocates. They place the user at
the center of the design process to ensure
their needs and expectations are met.
Product Designer UX (UI/UX) Designer
The Never Ending Debate

6. =:Information Architecture (IA)

Define how the whole product is
structure
&:Interaction Design

Craft how the product behave and
interact with the use
:User Interface Design

Understand brand’s visual identity, use
and create design system?
:User Experience Design

Understand and translate user’s needs
into achievable plan?
:Business-Design Connection

Finding midway between user needs and
company’s business. Double agent.
=:Information Architecture (IA)

Define how the whole product is
structure
&:
:User Interface Design

Understand brand’s visual identity, use
and create design system?
:User Experience Design

Understand and translate user’s needs
into achievable plan?
:
Interaction Design

Craft how the product behave and
interact with the use
Business-Design Connection

Finding midway between user needs and
company’s business. Double agent.
Product Designer UX (UI/UX) Designer

8. Day to Day Job
Design
Crafting
Visual Design
Information Architecture
User Journey
User Interface Design
etc
Planning
Sprint Planning
UI Planning
Project Planning
Thinking
Pain Points
Product Requirements
Usability Issue
Design Audit
Edge Cases
Out-of-Screen Scenario
Conducting
Feedback Session
Workshop
Usability Testing
Meeting, meeting,
meeting
Brainstorming Define User Problem Collaborate with Dev, PM, BizRetrospective & Feedback and more...

9. product

10. Figm
Photosho
Magi
Done!
Heuristic Evaluatio$
Competitive Researc
Demographic'
Technical Requirement'
Fight with PM and devWhat We Actually DoWhat People Think We Do

11. The Actual Struggle
Team
Company
Manager
Culture

12. ... and tech winter
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/tech-layoffs-2023-list/

13. Workplace
Startup
Agency
Corporate
Freelance

14. Startup

15. Startup

16. Workplace
The product, what they sell? Not all startups are fun and
not all big companies are
rigid. Design process of the team,
culture, teammates
Business Model Size Check On

17. Design isn’t just what it looks like and
feels like —  design is how it works.
“

18. Thank You!
Rayandra Valera
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