To succeed in design, embrace generalism over specialization for creative and high-leverage tasks.
Understanding visual design fundamentals is crucial for UX designers to enhance capabilities.
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Becoming a Generalist in Design
To succeed in the evolving design landscape, it is crucial for designers to embrace a more generalist approach. Specialization in silos may no longer suffice due to technological advancements enhancing efficiency. By broadening skill sets, designers can focus on creative and high-leverage tasks.
Value of Visual Fundamentals for UX Designers
Visual design fundamentals are key for UX designers. Understanding visual principles and having solid skills in this area can significantly enhance one's capabilities as a designer, especially when focusing on the UX aspect.
Importance of Building Skills Beyond Design
Designers should expand beyond conventional design roles and think of themselves as builders. Basic front-end coding knowledge can be a valuable asset, providing a deeper understanding of what is possible and enabling designers to contribute directly to production code.
Utilizing Chat GPT for Learning and Accountability
Engaging with AI tools like Chat GPT can serve as a valuable learning aid and accountability partner for designers. By leveraging AI to ask questions, seek feedback, and set objectives, designers can enhance their learning process, receive guidance, and increase productivity.
Michael Riddering AKA Ridd is an experienced designer who recently found huge success teaching online. After strategically providing a ton of free value across multiple networks, he launched his Figma Academy in 2022 earning over $300,000 in the first 4 months. This green-lit and helped boost his next startup Dive, an online learning platform with a world class team to help level up your design career. We rap about what it takes to stand out as a UX designer, how AI could assist online eduction and we get practical with a value-packed case study on how to plan, hype and launch a digital product if you have no audience.
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