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Understanding yourself and what employers look

for when hiring UX talent 7 January 2013

Jason Mesut

Head of User Experience

Plan

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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Head of User Experience

at Plan

1. Front-end innovation

2. Design management

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Jason Mesut

Jason MesutHead of User Experience

Jason heads up our Product Service Strategy and User Experience Management team here at Plan.

In addition to his extensive consulting experience he is a renowned industry speaker and UX community leader.

Introducing...

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Industrial Design

Brunel

In-house

Yell.com (Yellow Pages)

Management/IT consultancy

PA Consulting

User-centred design / research consultancy

Flow (now Foolproof)

Digital design marketing consultancy / agency

LBi

The Team

RMA Consulting

Previously

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Some of my clients

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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1. Passion

2. Curiosity

3. Design skills

4. Critical thinking

5. Appreciation of other disciplines

6. Understanding of an ever-widening domain

7. Self awareness

8. Professional attitude

* I am on a hiring break after my last two roles (and this was off the top of my head this morning)

** Vision, curiosity, divergent thinking, iteration and sweating the details

What I look for*

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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Perfect EA poster

Created in 2005 for Euro IA so needs an update

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Soft skills

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Body metaphor

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Profile wheels

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UX quadrants

ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

Evolved from an Adaptive Path model and in use at LBi, The Team, and RMA

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UX quadrants

ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

Insight and big picture

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UX quadrants

ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

User Interface craft

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UX quadrants

ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

Conceptual, design, feel

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ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

Analysis, rigour, logic

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Provenance

ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

Industrial design

Business consulting, Marketing HCI

Psychology

Software design

Web design

Business strategy

Market research

Design research

Library science

Design strategy

Device interface design

Models as drawn by team members at RMA

Models as drawn by team members at RMA

Models as drawn by team members at RMA

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Have a go

Understand your shapeMap yourself against the different dimensions

Your name Date

URUser Research

ExSExperienceStrategy

IAInformationArchitecture

IxDInteraction Design

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Name and date

Draw a shape Fill out the wheel

URUser Research

ExSExperienceStrategy

IAInformationArchitecture

IxDInteraction Design

Jason 7 Jan 2014

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UX double diamond

ExSExperience

Strategy

IxDInteraction

Design

URUser

Research

IAInformation Architecture

VLVisual

Language

MGMotion

Graphics

IDInformation

Design

A work in progress

Developed at RMA, currently being evolved at Plan

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UX layers

RMA’s disciplines of User Experience

Visual Language

Motion Graphics

Information Design

Interaction Design

Experience Strategy

User Research

Information Architecture

What user perceives

Big D

Little d

UX

UI

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My background

What I look for

Profiling

Portfolio

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See more at: betteruxportfolios.com

1. Portfolio rant

2. Portfolio tips handout

3. Sell yourself better presentation

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