

Honest UX Talks by Wix Studio
Anfisa Bogomolova & Ioana Teleanu
Honest weekly conversations about UX design career, challenges, portfolios, mental health, and all things UX. Ioana and Anfisa together have 20 years of experience in the UX field and trying to share their main lessons to help anyone transitioning to design overcome the fears.
Our weekly conversations are supported by Wix Studio, the web platform built for agencies and enterprises, and an amazing supporter of the design space.
https://www.wix.com/studio
To request the next topic DM us on IG:
🗂 instagram.com/honest_ux_talks
👩💻 instagram.com/anfisign
👩🏻💻 instagram.com/uxgoodies
Our weekly conversations are supported by Wix Studio, the web platform built for agencies and enterprises, and an amazing supporter of the design space.
https://www.wix.com/studio
To request the next topic DM us on IG:
🗂 instagram.com/honest_ux_talks
👩💻 instagram.com/anfisign
👩🏻💻 instagram.com/uxgoodies
Episodes
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Jan 26, 2021 • 52min
#5 Mental health. Burnout. Bare minimun | w/Gabriel Kirmaier as UXbites
2020 is FINALLY behind! But after such a rollercoaster year, we've all left feeling a little burnout or et least mentally drained. In this episode, we've invited our friend Gabriel Kirmaier (@uxbites) to discuss why he took the whole 2020 year OFFline and how it impacted his productivity.
👨🏻💻Gabriels' Instagram account instagram.com/uxbites
➡️Gabriel's' story of a social media disappear
➡️Why are we allowing ourselves to overwork?
➡️Super-productivity vs Bare-minimum
➡️Does strategy lead to burnout?
➡️Our burnout stories
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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Jan 19, 2021 • 57min
#4 Do you need an online presence?
Seems like during 2019-20 EVERY designer in the world started their social media pages, but not every designer stuck around.
In this episode let's discuss if it's worth creating your SM presence and if yes, then why?
➡️ Why starting your own SM presence?
➡️Our social media blogs stories
➡️ Does it make sense to start your social media in 2021?
➡️Does SM help you to land new freelance clients?
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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Jan 5, 2021 • 43min
#3 UX design processes
If you google UX design processes, you’ll receive about 481,000,000 search results.
So what design processes do we usually follow and what is their actual value?
➡️ Design thinking and Double diamond
➡️ UX process stages
➡️ How UX processes differ from a small to big companies
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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Jan 4, 2021 • 47min
#2 Defining UX design
UX design sounds very broad and even ambiguous.
In this episode let's try to understand why is it so and what does UX really mean?
➡️ Our UX design definitions and how we explain it to our Moms
➡️ UX designer vs UX design industry
➡️ What is good UX?
➡️ Examples of good UX for us
➡️ TOP 6 main takeaways
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Jan 4, 2021 • 38min
#1 How to transition to UX Design
Are you getting started in the UX design field too?
In this episode, we're:
➡️ Sharing our transition to UX stories.
➡️ Discussing what was common in our journeys.
➡️ Discussing the main fears when it comes to a transition.
➡️ Impostor syndrome and self-doubt
➡️ TOP 6 main tips and takeaways to help you transition to UX too
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