What are some intentional ways you guys use to improve your UX skills? : r/UXDesign
When I say UX, more specifically the skill to be able to design great user flows, not so much UI or micro animations! I believe a part of it develops with experience as a designers’ intuition but wondering if any professionals employ certain ways to intentionally develop this skillset/intuition? Critique is a great one - finding unique things to raise about other's work rather than leaning on things you've raised in the past. Documenting complex flows like strategy video game logic for fun or document a service design flow for a cafe you're sitting in observing everyone employees and customers or for a subway watching people sit down, when they look around, when they pull out their phones. It is helpful to just bring your practice into your day to day. Meditate and get to know how brains work, where the intentionality happens and where the habit happens, observe what you look and feel like when you're truly being intentional vs just following a routine. Look for it in other people. (If
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