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Mentorship and coaching provide a structured way to bridge the gap between where professionals are and where they want to be.
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Why Mentoring and Coaching Matter in Tech and Design
The tech and design industries are built on innovation, creativity, and problem-solving. However, navigating these fields can be daunting, especially for professionals seeking to grow their careers or adapt to new challenges.
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Asking why immediately puts them on the defensive, while asking how invites exploration of the concept’s origin without the need for justification."
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(Image: Jonathan Simcoe) (View large version) “HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT SOLUTION?” # A great place to start any critique or conversation is to ask the designer how — not why — they did something.
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Here are a few questions that I have found open dialogue for exploring designs in a collaborative, rather than combative, way, which you can suggest to your team. The key is to ask the right questions.
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Ask More Questions. | How To Run A UI Design Critique — Smashing Magazine | https://archive.smashing.media/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629/4aac6155-f7c6-4b73-ad6b-ca5f4bec7a94/questions-500-opt.jpeg
How To Run A UI Design Critique
"Asking The Right Questions # Plenty of questions and statements work against strong cooperation in a design critique.
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in an email. "It's a shift that raises important questions for the industry — including whether AI will be implemented in ways that reinforce user control, or in ways that reduce it."
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🔥 Microsoft's Copilot strategy is just more user abuse from Redmond, says Mozilla
"What we're seeing right now is a broader transition: Tried and tested tactics are degrading user choice and experiences on the web and now translating to AI," Griffin further explained to The Register
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Instead, introducing a certain amount of disfluency into the design — making the text less legible — may actually increase the reader’s ability to remember and process the information.
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Surprising, though, transparency may actually work against understanding the authors message if it becomes too easy to read or fluent.
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The goal of readability is to allow the reader to move through text as effortlessly and quickly as possible, with the typography becoming transparent to the author’s underlying message.
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Readability is the quality of text that makes it easy to follow for sustained periods with minimal strain to the reader. Traditionally, readability is achieved through the use of highly legible typefaces, highly contrasted colors, and well proportioned line lengths and spacing.
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Typography style guide showcasing different font styles, including "Open Sans" with examples of letters and numbers.
Typography Is About Understanding, Not Readability
When legibility and readability are a problem
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Most likely clients will not know the efforts or cost involved.
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For clients, the mission of your portfolio is to delight them with the possibilities of what you can give them. But be careful not to over-promise: It's easy to lead clients to believe that they can get a Maserati website, which can be a huge problem if they only have a Yugo budget.
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We live in an increasingly competitive industry, where websites are being designed by AI or cobbled from a template more cost effectively than hiring a real human designer. Your job is to show them why the human touch will give them the biggest bang for their buck.
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So, your portfolio will need to do more than sell the quality of your work, but also the value of the services you can provide.
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Like hiring managers, clients are going to be more interested in seeing what you offer, but unlike a hiring manager, clients will often have little or no design training themselves.
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5 people you need to worry about seeing your portfolio
02. Clients
If you are looking to pick up freelance work, you need to target potential clients.
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In an agile environment, you will often have coders, project managers, product managers and people from other disciplines sitting in to give feedback, and you need to know how to quickly get them up to speed on the expectations if you want to get anywhere fast."
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If done well, design critiques allow everyone on the team to feel as if they have been heard and allow clients to give valuable feedback.
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Ask More Questions. | How To Run A UI Design Critique — Smashing Magazine | https://archive.smashing.media/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42bb-adb4-46f01eedd629/4aac6155-f7c6-4b73-ad6b-ca5f4bec7a94/questions-500-opt.jpeg
How To Run A UI Design Critique
"Design critiques are an important part of any product exploration. A good design critique is meant to explore the design, find where it is working and where it could be improved.
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