Practical UX Weekly: Season One

Course details

Ever wondered how other UX designers troubleshoot problems and juggle conflicting priorities? In this series, Drew Bridewell—a lead user experience designer at LinkedIn—shares his hard-earned knowledge about how to apply basic UX design principles to real-world projects. Drew discusses his daily workflow, shares tips and tricks for presenting your work and collaborating with others, and walks you through a day in the life of a product designer. Tune in and start looking at your own design projects in a new light.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Connecting with Drew

1. UX Skills

03 - What skills do people really need for UX
04 - Sharing your design perspective within the team and beyond
05 - 5 tips to improve your user experience design skills
06 - A day in the life of a product designer
07 - Interviewing designers - tips, tricks, and things to avoid
08 - Acing your next design interview
09 - How to win when working remote
10 - Behind the role of a user experience designer
11 - Wireframing best practices

2. Product Design

12 - Designing a responsive web product
13 - Responsive web techniques - Creating box studies
14 - Product design at scale - Short- and long-term design thinking
15 - The workflow of a product designer
16 - Pitching your next user experience idea
17 - Designing for context first
18 - Pretty doesn't mean functional
19 - Practical tools for every UX designer
20 - Thinking design systems
21 - Managing expectations

3. Case Studies

22 - Case Study - Course page
23 - Case Study - Reminder feature
24 - Case Study - Signup flow
25 - Case Study - Orientation feature
26 - Case Study - Responsive navigations
27 - Case Study - Member homepage

4. Communication and Collaboration

28 - Investing in relationships with your team and beyond
29 - Working closely with product managers
30 - Working with engineers
31 - Facilitating workshops with your team
32 - Working through change
33 - Design critique fundamentals
34 - Sweating the details in UX
35 - Capture your wins
36 - Capturing your product bugs or new ideas
37 - Storytelling in user experience design
38 - Working with user experience researchers
39 - Redesigning your meetings

5. Cultivating Creativity

40 - Finding your magic creative time at work
41 - Making time to be creative
42 - Sketching in user experience design