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New to UX Design? Feeling Overwhelmed?

Here’s some help

Guy Ligertwood

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UX Planet

5 min readJul 2, 2017

Did you read that Sidebar article about UX Writing?

Did you see the new augmented reality software that Apple created?

Have you seen Android’s new design pattern?

Did you see the latest Google I/O talks?

Have you read ‘Hooked’ ?

You been on Dribbble lately?

Did you complete that online UI course with Design Labs?

Did you see the latest intercom podcast with Julie Zhuo?

Have you joined The Designership’s Slack room, it’s such a great resource for designers?

Did you see the latest interview article with Interface Lovers?

How is your side project going?

Are you going to the meet up tonight?

Have you finished your portfolio?

Did you write that Medium article you were talking about doing?

Did you see that new prototyping tool that just came out?

arghhh…

…there’s a lot to keep up with isn’t there?

Feels a bit overwhelming?

You’re not alone 🤓

Feeling overwhelmed is normal

This was great Guy. Thanks for addressing this very relevant topic.

This in fact was one of the main reasons I started User Defenders podcast. Not to add more noise, but to hopefully help distill and funnel the required learning this field takes to…

Thank you for sharing!

I’ve been really trying to dive into UX Design the last couple of months and recently started feeling overwhelmed by everything I keep adding to my list of To Do’s. Sometimes we just need a reminder to take a deep breath, step back and focus on what’s important.

Accept you won’t ever be good at everything and get yourself in a good team. You’ll learn enough as you go along and they will support you when you don’t know things. I would suggest just focussing on what really interests you and aim to be T-shaped.