Looking for work as a designer can be an emotional process, but during interviews, you are learning as much about companies as they are about you. In this article, Joshua Bullock will present a list of questions from his personal experience to consider leading up to and even during the interview process. Let’s explore some ways you can start to interview like a researcher and use this to your advantage!
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There are internships in every industry imaginable — from HR to investment banking — but what could a UX design internship look like? In this article, Erica talks about her internship at an agency in Granada, what her tasks were, all the challenges she faced, and how she overcame the fear of simply trying something new. This is intended for those who are new to UX design looking to explore the field — read on to learn if a UX design internship is the right thing for you!
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Smashing Book 6 is now shipping worldwide. With everything from design systems to accessible single-page apps, CSS Custom Properties, CSS Grid, service workers, performance patterns, AR/VR/XR, conversational UIs and responsive art direction. Check table of contents and get the book now.Read more…
Today is a very important day for us. We’re incredibly honored to have crossed our first milestone of 1,000 Smashing members today. In fact, with Membership, sometimes it feels like walking around a small town in which everyone knows each other and their friends, and so we know many members by name, and we’ve also met some of them at Smashing Conferences. In this post Vitaly Friedman highlights some of the members, how much money we’ve earned and how we spent it, and a bit of a feel about what Membership is like.
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How do you arrange all the sections in your résumé when applying for a job position? What’s the order that you are supposed to follow? Are all of the sections necessary? This is where understanding résumé layouts and formats becomes important so that you can stand out from the crowd. Aditya Sharma dedicates this guide to all the web developers out there and it will demonstrate how you can create a successful résumé that will get you more shortlists than you can fathom. If it’s a piece of paper that is standing between you and your dream job, it’s time to show who’s the boss.
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The defining characteristic of UX design is its focus on user research and on an iterative, user-centered, approach to creating solutions. But what if we applied the user-centered design process to ourselves, our lives, and our careers? In this article, JD Jordan is going to introduce you to four tools and techniques you can use to get started: Your Life In Weeks, Eisenhower Charts, Affinity Mapping and Prototyping Life.
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SmashingConf is heading back to New York! SmashingConf NYC 2018 will explore how new web technologies, findings and emerging front-end/UX techniques can make us all better designers and developers. Today, Vitaly Friedman invites you to join us for two days full of front-end adventures and UX practices — highly practical techniques and strategies that you can apply to your work right away.
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SmashingConf Toronto is coming! Join us for a conference without slides, and see how experienced designers and developers work live. With lots of time for deep dive-ins. June 26–27. All talks will be live coding and design sessions on stage, showing how speakers, including pattern libraries setup, design workflows and shortcuts, debugging, naming conventions, and everything in between.
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Today, Vitaly Friedman invites you to join us at SmashingConf Freiburg and explore failures as well as lessons learned from real-life web projects. With Aarron Walter, Tammy Everts, Seb Lee-Delisle, Josh Clark, and many others. Happening September 10–11: Mark your calendars!
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The nomadic lifestyle is not right for everyone, but the only way to know for sure is to try. If you can afford to take the risk, go for it. ? It might sound like a dream, but all that glitters is not gold, and it might not be the right choice for you. In this article, Javier Cuello will share some insights from his four years of travel and work that hopefully will be useful for anyone willing to try a nomadic lifestyle, too. Please note, however, that this is not going to be a “how to” guide. Instead, Javier will share some insights from his personal experience.
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