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UX Challenges — For UX designers to learn and practice crucial skills
Stop reading about UX and actually try it out!
💪 Practice with real-world exercises.
🛠 Train yourself in crucial skills and tools.
💼 Take away portfolio-worthy deliverables.
👩🏻💻 Useful for beginners and experts alike.
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@thisissubhendu That's awesome Subhendu, glad you'll find it useful. Totally agree that design skills can be great for a developer to learn (and vice versa 😉).
@thisissubhendu I really love the idea of developers using this to practice. Thanks!
Congrats on the launch @_taylorpalmer & @jrdnbwmn — this is excellent.
As a former UX teacher, this would have made my life so much easier, great job!
@_taylorpalmer @widawskij Thanks so much Jonathan! Glad you like it, we agree that this is something design teachers could make use of!
@jrdnbwmn @widawskij Great to see you here Jonathan! And using this as a UX mentor/teacher is a perfect use case.
Hey Product Hunt friends! 👋🏼
We made these UX Challenges so that designers can learn and practice crucial UX skills. There are too many clichéd UI exercises out there. These challenges are different:
👩🏻💻 Based in the real world. This isn't another fake redesign or "create an ATM for a centaur." Every exercise looks like a project you'd get in real life.
🛠 Practice important skills. UX is more than just UI. Each challenge helps you understand and train a specific UX skill like card sorting or usability testing.
💪 Stop reading: try UX. Nothing improves design skills faster than doing design work. Practice solving problems and see what real UX work is like.
💼 Get tangible takeaways. Have fun with mini projects, then walk away with a deliverable to put in your portfolio or use as a talking point in interviews.
Each challenge has a real-world scenario, a task aimed at helping you practice a specific skill, hand-picked references if you need help, and recommended tools.
Follow along on 🐦 Twitter: we'll be re-sharing and posting feedback for people who share their completed challenges there.
Let us know what you think!
Will you take on one of the challenges?
Cheers,
Jordan & Taylor
It is a really useful and unbelievable resource for people who want to improve their design skills. Congrats!!
I just love project based approach to learning, what you get is far mor valuable than practical skills, cause you get real portfolio. Do you have to know Figma or any toole to start learning?
@mateusz_zarod1 We love project based learning as well Mateusz. You don't have to know Figma (or Sketch, Adobe XD) to do many of these challenges. You can use an easier-to-learn tool like Miro for lots of them!
Actually, it's even super useful for non-designers. I like your hand-picked tutorial recommendations. Nice work!
@michel_gagnon1 Thanks Michael! Who else do you see working these? Maybe product managers?
@jrdnbwmn Product Manager definitely, but also for marketing/growth team members and customer success reps.
This is really amazing tool to improve your UX design skills. Actually very useful for UX Designers looking for practical exercises. Congrats!
@aman_gupta9 Thank you Aman! Our aim was to make it as useful as possible.
A big shoutout to Jordan Bowman and Taylor Palmer who created this awesome platform. Thank you guys. <3
This looks amazing. Definitely, something that I could use with my mentees and less experienced junior designer on my team to help them level up
Really useful ideas for beginners like myself. They give you everything you need to go and do the projects. Very well thought through. When you don't have a lot of experience, it's easy to get really lost, by giving you the task and the educational resources to complete the task, it's like a complete package.
@ayberkbozkus Great Ayberk, let us know what you think when you try it out!
@ayberkbozkus That one of the reasons we made it—you don't have to be a designer to want to get better at design!
Incredible community initiative as always! Love the work you both are doing!
@designsingh Thanks Preet! Your feedback before the launch was really valuable 😄
@designsingh Have appreciated what you've built as well! Thanks for stopping by!
@thalion_pb Thank you Thalion, appreciate you taking an early look and giving us feedback 😉
@zedandwhite "Actually useful" is my new favorite way to describe this 😄
Daku (Alpha)