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How Junior UX designers can get a real project experience for their portfolio with Glide

Eric Chung
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9 min readJun 7, 2023

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UX design is a very demanding job in today’s market. The demand is so high that we see many new boot camps opening and providing education with the basic UX skills for new UX professionals.

New user experience designers often face difficulties in finding a job, as most companies prefer to hire a senior UX designer rather than a junior UX designer. On Facebook and LinkedIn pages, it is quite common to find people asking “Where can I find a job as a UX designer with no prior experience?”

Image og fast wireframes sketching from design process
Fast wireframes sketching from a design process

My personal belief is that it is possible to begin as a junior designer but most companies don’t want to hire junior designers without experience because:

  1. They don’t have the time to invest in a junior designer and study them.
  2. They want to get value from the employees as quickly as possible..

If you want to get a job as a UX designer you must understand that it is possible but you need to improve your ux design skill and show it in your portfolio. Now the question is, how can I be a professional…

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