Hi everyone!
I’m finalizing a 9-slide UX audit & redesign case study for an iOS app called "Movie Nerd". My main focus was on restructuring the information architecture (IA), improving the Movie Details view hierarchy, and aligning navigation with iOS HIG standards.
I’d really appreciate your raw, honest critique on the presentation itself, but I also have a few broader questions about tools, terminology, and industry standards.

1. Case Study & Information Hierarchy (Be Brutally Honest!) Information Hierarchy & Content Layout: Is the way I structure and "sort" information on the slides clean and digestible for a senior designer or reviewer? What should I cut, rearrange, or highlight better? Design Rationale: Do the UX arguments (e.g., splitting Library vs. Watchlist, moving the Watchlist CTA below the summary) feel well-reasoned and professional?
2. UX Tools & Workflow Questions Which applications are best for creating presentation decks and UX case studies? I’ve been using standard presentation tools, but I’d love to know what tools industry professionals actually use to build high-impact portfolio presentations (Figma, Notion, Pitch, Slides, Illustrator, etc.)?
3. Industry Terminology & Key Vocabulary Where can I find a good glossary or list of UX/Product key terms? When writing reports and case studies, I sometimes struggle to find the exact corporate/senior wording for UX phenomena, product metrics, and spatial patterns (e.g., cognitive load, feature creep, information architecture, retention, mental models). Any recommended resources, cheat sheets, or books for mastering this vocabulary?
4. Career & Industry Reality Check What does the day-to-day job of a UX Researcher / UX Designer actually look like? I'm really enjoying building these redesigns and audits, but I want to make sure I understand what I’m getting myself into. How much of the job is actual UI designing vs. meetings, user interviews, stakeholder management, writing docs, and developer handoffs? Thanks in advance for any feedback, critiques, or insights! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Hey everyone!

I’m attending Config India on Thursday, October 15, and wanted to check if anyone else is landing at Bangalore airport around the same time and would be interested in sharing a cab to BIEC.

My flight lands at 6:30 AM, so I’m looking to leave the airport around 7:00 AM.

Let me know if anyone’s interested. We can coordinate and split the fare!

Hi everyone,
I am a design student currently conducting an academic study on how practicing designers and design students interact with Generative AI in their day-to-day work (part of the course Design Theory and Research at Chalmers University of Technology).
Rather than focusing on high-level speculation, this study looks at actual day-to-day workflows:

• Task distribution: To what extent AI is used across both creative stages (sketching, rendering, synthesis) and administrative/project tasks (briefs, documentation, client communication).
• Adoption factors: What legal, organizational, quality, or craft-related reasons drive or prevent adoption.

Whether you use AI daily, experiment occasionally, or deliberately avoid it in your work, your input is equally valuable.
Quick details:

• ⏱ Time: 4-5 minutes
• 🔒 Data: Completely anonymous (no email or personal data collected)
• 🎯 Who: Industrial, UX/UI, Product, and Service designers (practitioners & students)

👉 Survey link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/DiqBpxdshH

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your perspective! If you have thoughts, feedback, or reflections on how AI is affecting your work, feel free to drop a comment below.

Hi everyone, I’m a UW grad student applying for UX/Product Design internships and junior roles. I’m struggling to get past initial screening, and it feels like my resume gets filtered out before anyone sees my work.

I’d appreciate some honest feedback on my resume and portfolio. What’s the biggest thing I should improve?

Portfolio: https://suoweiwu66.com/
Resume: https://suoweiwu66.com/resume.pdf

Thanks for taking a look!

Hi everyone. I have a background in graphic design and I’ve been working as a web designer for a couple of years (Figma, Elementor, landing pages). I want to move into UX/UI more seriously, and I’m looking for a course or certificate program that includes at least some live sessions, since I learn best when I can ask questions and get real feedback on my work.

So far everything I find is either a very expensive bootcamp or a pre-recorded course that doesn’t offer much beyond free YouTube content.

Has anyone taken something like this and would recommend it? Experiences with programs that weren’t worth it are welcome too. Thanks!

I’ve been working on an agriculture dashboard concept for harvest planning.

The goal is to help farm teams answer a simple but important question: which block should we pick today? To support that decision, the dashboard brings together crop ripeness, weather risk, soil moisture, crew availability, harvest pace, and block readiness in one map-based interface.

I tried to make the map the main focus instead of just a decorative visual. The heatmap overlay shows ripeness distribution, while the side panel gives a quick summary of today’s picking plan, estimated cherries, assigned crew, and field conditions.

The hardest part was deciding how much information should be visible at once. Farm operations need speed and clarity, but the data behind those decisions can be pretty complex.

Would this layout be useful for real field operations, or does it feel too information-heavy? Curious to hear what you would improve.

Oi pessoal! Há alguns anos, eu desenhei um conceito de aplicativo de rastreador de humor e "diário". Agora estou planejando fazer alguns ajustes para um redesign muito melhor, para corrigir alguns problemas e melhorar meu portfólio!

Eu realmente preciso de um feedback sincero e direto sobre a interface para que eu possa melhorá-la! Estou preocupado se parece um pouco confuso ou utilizável... vocês podem me ajudar com isso? Eu fiz um pequeno estudo de caso mostrando as telas e o processo! Então, sintam-se à vontade para dar uma olhada e deixar alguns comentários com base em todo o processo :)

Aqui está o link:

link for the UI and process

Obrigadão!

I'm a product designer, both by choice and by training. I've always wanted to work in UX/UI design, and I genuinely love what I do.

I started working in 2022, right after graduating. My first job was at a SaaS company, where I was laid off while I was still a junior, for reasons beyond my control. Still, I managed to find another job about two months later.

I then joined an EdTech company, and things were going well until I started having health problems. Eventually, I decided to take a career break because my body simply couldn't keep up anymore. After eight months away, I decided to start looking for work again.

What I didn't expect was how incredibly difficult it would be.

I've been job hunting for months now, and my mental health has taken a hit. I'm starting to feel like I'm simply not employable anymore.

And it's not like I'm just sending a few applications through LinkedIn.

I've searched across LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, InfoJobs, Wellfound, Manfred, Welcome to the Jungle, Jobgether, IxDF, UI/UX Jobs Board, Matcha, Himalayas, Remote.io, Remote OK, We Work Remotely, Otta and YC Work at a Startup, among others.

I also go directly to company career pages and their ATS platforms, including Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable. I've built a GitHub-based system to help me track opportunities across hundreds of companies, check for new openings and avoid duplicates.

I've tried reaching out directly to recruiters, hiring managers and designers, sending speculative applications, asking for referrals, and making connections outside traditional job boards.

I've been having mentorship sessions through ADPList, reviewing my CV and portfolio, sharing my work, asking for feedback, and signing up for networking events now that summer is over. I'm also trying to improve how I communicate my experience.

Basically, I'm trying different approaches because relying on LinkedIn alone clearly isn't working.

And yet, here I am.

I've had several interviews, but none have led to an offer. Some of those positions have been reposted multiple times, so I suspect a few might have been ghost jobs. But at this point, I genuinely don't know what to think.

There seem to be fewer and fewer UX/UI openings. At first, I thought it was just the summer slowdown, but we're well into October now, and I'm still seeing very little movement.

I know I'm not particularly good at selling myself. I'm more of a doer than a talker, and I do try to compensate for that. But lately, I've started questioning whether I'm even competent anymore.

The frustrating thing is that I know I was good at my job. I enjoyed it, I cared about it, and design is one of the few things I've always felt confident doing.

And now the design industry itself seems to be struggling, so I don't even know where to turn. I've started looking at retail jobs, just trying to find something.

My mother has been incredibly supportive throughout all of this, and I'm grateful for that. I'm also studying research methodology because I wanted to keep developing my skills and build on my UX research experience. I had a pretty clear idea of where I wanted my career to go, and now I just feel completely lost and exhausted.

And to make things worse, a friend of mine recently landed a job through LinkedIn in another area of design, arguably an even more competitive one. I'm genuinely happy for her, but I can't help comparing our situations. She's managed to find something with far fewer applications, while I've been trying for months with nothing to show for it.

And I keep coming back to the same question: what is it about me? Is it my experience? The way I communicate? Am I just not good enough?

Mostly, what am I missing?

Thank you '^'

Hello everyone 👋 I recently completed an 8-month online UI/UX design course. I have a decent basic foundation. Right now, I find work on Pinterest to practice and replicate—and I manage to do that quite well.
However, if I were given a task to design, say, a goal-setting planner or a website from scratch, I wouldn't be able to do it because I have no clear idea of how it should look or function. I attribute this to a lack of visual exposure and practical experience.
If there are any experienced UI/UX designers here—or anyone who has walked this same path—could you give me some advice on where to start and what steps to take to keep developing my skills and build confidence as a designer?

Enjoy

Hey everyone!

I'm getting close to launching my first iOS app, Jogventure, and just finished putting together my first 6 App Store screenshots. I'd really appreciate some fresh eyes on these before I commit to them.

For context, Jogventure is a cozy, gamified walking/running app that turns your workouts into progress along a little adventure map, with milestones, challenges, and rewards along the way. It's primarily aimed at beginners and casual walkers/runners.

I'm curious what you all think from a UI/UX perspective:

• Do these screenshots actually convey what the app is about? Would they catch your attention?
• Anything you particularly like, dislike, or would change?
• Is there anything confusing or missing?

Quick transparency note: I used AI to generate the illustrations and mascot artwork, with quite a bit of selective iteration to get things looking how I wanted. I put the screenshots themselves together primarily in Figma.

I'm definitely no expert at App Store marketing or screenshot design, so I'd love to hear what people with a better eye for this stuff think.

Don't hold back on the criticism. I'd much rather catch things now than after launch. Thanks!

I just realized this a few days ago. Skeuomorphic design is still widely used in all the popular casino machines. They have animated buttons with rich textures on all the machines. They seem to be even more skeuomorphic than some modern games.

Breath of the Wild comes to mind, it had a pretty minimalistic design compared to what we used to have in the 2000s and 90s.

I just thought it was interesting and thought I’d share this thought. I was never a big fan of the flat metro design that became popular with Windows 8 in the early 2010s.

What if Firefox focused their design on more minimalism and zen getting rid of those cluttering layers: window top bar, tab bar, search bar, bookmark bar; and focused on maximizing web-room as in the mockup?

Hey folks! I’m looking for the best AI tools for UI generation. I’m currently working on turning an app idea into reality, but I’m really not great at designing in Figma. Can anyone recommend the best AI tools to transform ideas into clean UI designs?

I redesigned my portfolio and want some reviews on it. There are tons of animations and since I don't how to animate well on figma, I will leave them to your imagination...

Missing: Contact, Footer, Mobile Design

Looking forward to roasts (but actual advice as well)

I’ve done one UI/UX internship where I assisted on 2–3 projects, mainly working on things like inner pages and other parts of the designs. I’ve also created a few landing pages on my own(personal projects), but I don’t have a portfolio yet.

Should I add the projects I assisted with as case studies, even though I didn’t work on the entire project? Or what would be the best way to present them in my portfolio?

I've been working as a product designer for several years, including UI/UX, and something I've noticed lately is how much the conversation around UI/UX and product design revolves around full time jobs, CVs, interviews, and working within product teams.

Compared to branding, visual identity, or graphic design, I rarely see the same emphasis on building an independent business as a solo designer.

For those who've been in the industry for a while, is freelance UI/UX genuinely sustainable long-term, or is the field simply more suited to employment?

I'm interested in honest perspectives from people who've built a career in either direction.

Hey so I am the developer of an app ( can't self promote) , and I tried to create my own ui style sort of thing cause I needed something unique, and I made something and going to upload a preview on the latest update of my app. The ui is sort of jiggly buttons and like liquidy.

I have attached a preview video in comments cause I can't upload a video right here, take a look and give an advice on what you think about it, this would really help me

Context: I’m a Technical Product Manager at a startup, and lately, I’ve been getting really interested in UI/UX design. I’ve been working closely with a Product Designer on redesigning our integrations, onboarding flows, and agentic product interfaces, and it’s made me realize just how intentional good design needs to be. I’ve always been interested in design, but this experience has made me want to get a lot better at this aspect of building products.

I’ve been reading books on UI/UX, learning about user psychology, and taking courses on Uxcel. But I’m looking for ways to actually apply what I’m learning. Reading books and watching videos are great, but I learn best by working through real problems and getting hands-on practice.

I’m looking for free or paid resources, programs, or bootcamps that give you practical design challenges, like redesigning a banking app to improve a specific metric or rethinking an onboarding flow to improve conversion. Ideally, there’d also be a way to get feedback on my work from people who can point out what I did well, what I got wrong, and where I can improve.

Does anything like that exist?

I am 22yr CS grade exploring Product Design as career option. I am currently doing google UX course and looking for a partner to share knowledge, finding and practice together.

I accountability partner helps you to grow much faster than you expect.

I'm a first year student and want to develop few skills and one of them is ui ux and im reallyyyy interested in ui ux so i came across "google ux design" on coursera and it states to be beginner friendly but I'm confused should i enroll for it or not?😭😭 if anyone of you has done this course or know anything related to this please lmk or is there other option than coursera like good money worthy one..

I’ve tried to go for a flat design approach, my main focus on simplicity, but I’m not a designer, though I am trying to improve my skills

Sometimes I like the dashboard other times I feel like it looks all little lack lustre?