How to talk about impact in your design projects (and what to do if you don't have it) 

Thank you! I think the biggest things for me have been: 1. Learning how to say No so that I only focus on the most impactful things 2. Hiring help! I have a couple freelancers I work with who help keep this channel alive. 3. Listening to you, my audience on how I can best help you and use my time effectively to do so

Thank you Karim! It's comments like this that keep me going on this channel so I really appreciate it :) So glad I could help in some way!

Much appreciated!

Thanks for watching!

Yay so glad to hear this was helpful for you :)

You're so welcome!

Thanks Furquan!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Glad you enjoyed it!

So glad!

So glad to hear it!

Aw that's so kind of you! Thanks!

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Thank you so much!!

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Absolutely!

Thanks for the video topic suggestion! Will add it to my list.

Thanks Ola!

Hey! Curious what's holding you back - is it that it hasn't shipped or you're worried about sharing to much info? If the latter, can you elaborate?

@@femkedesign Hello Femke, thanks so much for replying! I’m struggling with selecting the last project of my portfolio. On the one hand I have this project I’ve been working on for like 2,5 months. It’s about exploring the Proof of Concept of an innovative functionality (and technology) into the app of a known customer. As something innovative and not yet shipped nor sure to be shipped, we’re still working on it. I’m on the testing phase of the prototypes I’ve designed to find out wether our initial hypothesis were right or not. I considered telling the whole journey of the project and the impact we expect to have if we finally launch it, but blurring all the labels and references to the brand and sector (they’d still know which it is). Still, I’m afraid I might give away too much information and it could be negative for the company I’m in now and applying for. On the other hand, I have a little project (only 3-4 weeks) where I fixed a small flow that was causing a lot of pain points for the user. The impact is visible, since they can check out the users negative feedback on the app store and I can dive deep into the solution since it’ll be shipped in about a month (I also have data for impacted users). Unfortunately, for this project we didn’t get to test with real users (just some personal guerrilla and the initial research on their feedback on the app store). This project would have even more impact because after the solution, they valued more my job and I became the lead of UX of this app. What would you do? Is it better to tell a smaller project but with maybe a much more provable impact, or risk it and maybe show too much about the huge long-term project? Thank you so much in advance, you’re such an inspiration!

Not sharing at this time but might do in future!

It's always good to have a personal website. For presenting projects I do mine using Figma but honestly anything works!

@@femkedesign Thanks alot 🙂

Probably not, but I'll keep in mind the request to live design more in my videos :)

Thanks

Just sharing my experience of what's worked for me and others I've interviewed! Feel free to just take the nuggets that you need or speak to you, you don't have to do it all :)