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Lego designer software5/12/2023 ![]() I had spent a lot of time wrangling the tools to bend to my will and while doing that, sucking up my time for letting my imagination run wild, to play, explore, and make new and in the end, I didn’t find the “me” in any of them. Despite all my effort, they ended up looking templated with little new or interesting thinking. In fact, all the projects I had done in those tools I didn’t particularly like. Just as my lovely professors has said, knowing how to wireframe or mockup in a particular tool 100% did not matter. Instead, I began to prepare myself for my job hunt by developing a few scrappy ways of making wireframes and mockups with Powerpoint, the early version of Balsamiq, hobbling along in Illustrator, doing my best to study up on the newest tools.Īs predictable as sunrise, my little panic streak was all for nought. Being an anxious person by nature, I listened, but I didn’t really hear them. That my foundational education was going to be the thing that mattered to landing a great job. ![]() My professors assured me that it wasn’t going to matter. UX designer roles (at least in name) were newer to the industry and few and far between. What I hadn’t learned was a thing about visual design or engineering, which at the time seemed like truly marketable skills. I had big dreams, great process, strong collaboration skills, and an academic basis for how to think about and communicate design. After 2 awesome years of learning about HCI and doing engaging student projects I had totally fallen head over heels in love with design (and my now husband). I was a bit panicked about getting a job out of school.
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