Become a Senior User Experience (UX) Design Strategist

In this lecture, you'll learn about what this User Experience course has for you.

Here I give some basic clues on how to study in general. These are very important foundations for you as a UX student.

The one tool that changed my life as a student, but also as a creative person.

If you are new to Udemy, you need to check this lecture (has little to deal with User Experience though).

What are the things that a UX strategist / consultant have to have in mind before starting to work in any project.

User experience, when addressed appropriately, is an holistic endeavor. The emerging conversation of “cross-channel user experience” is redundant, because if you're weren't thinking cross-channel (and cross-platform, cross-device, etc. etc.), you were doing “user experience” wrong.

This is the fundamental thing to have for a succesful User Experience strategist practice.

A great example to understand why is so important to segment your time as a UX Designer.

A master hack to improve your workday.

How to measure your performance effectively.

A lean guide to keep you tidy when starting a new project.

A UX Consultant have to have the ability to extract the information from clients, users and teammates. These are the strategies that I use.

Non-verbal indicators and other important NPL concepts to know where to look to understand people.

All people is interested in your project from a different perspective. Help them understand what you do and make them your allies.

How a typical consultancy works.

A lean template to start a business relationship with someone quickly and without hassle.

A secret to avoid falling too late.

Mike Monteiro is the main speaker of this, the most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time.

This is one of the best advice that you can have on how to 'get' professional, and the attitudeand wording that the seniors have.

The Design Thinking Process as a way to create a solution for any problem.

Design thinking is a powerful tool to tackle the unknown.

It's a means of going on an expedition, without a map, without even knowing the destination, but with the confidence that you'll end up somewhere great.

About the GV Design Sprint.

This is a brief introduction to why design methods can be useful when developing services.

If you're new to service design: You can use it to familiarise yourself with a typical process that designers use when developing products and services. It will give you an idea of what to expect from working with a designer.

If you're a designer: You may be familiar with all of this already, but you may find this document useful when explaining common service design methods to others that are new to them.

A system to start a project before things get too complicated.

Service blueprinting helps you see the experience a customer has with your service from a holistic viewpoint.

It gives you not just the end-to-end view of the experience, but also exposes the “behind-the-scenes” work that goes into creating and delivering that particular experience.

This surface-to-core information—the underlying actors, systems, touchpoints, policies—is critical to understanding and improving our services.

A simple template for creating a a User Experience project deliverable.

A way to get the project started without having to depend on the project manager to do it.

Steve Blank says a minimum viable product, or MVP, can help you test your hypotheses about the market, and your customers, before you spend too much time creating and shipping the product.

How to have a 'personal assistant' without having to pay extra.

A straightforward way of organizing yourself and the whole team under the same system.

A lean approach to meetings, with the 'Getting Things Done' approach as framework

Know about the process of interviewing users.

Interviewing users is undeniably one of the most valuable and commonly used user research tools. Yet sometimes we forget that it's a skill we need to learn...

This video is the second one from Steve Portigal, now talking about the method and the findings of the user research process.

Here you can find the consulting guides that Steve himself used for his work in the project "Reading Ahead".

This is a special section with additional resources to help you with User Experience Consultant practice.

Some final words for this UX course...