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Updated my connecting page I was mentoring for free on ADPList. The first 9 month were great so far. I got many bookings and met amazing people. But during the last weeks I just got no-show booking...
I love working with colors. That's why I wrote a blog post about Colors in UX Design. Happy reading. π https://whitewords.io/blog/colors-in-ux/
Get your next remote UX job - A Playbook Need some help for UX job search? I made my playbook available for you on Gumroad. https://whitewords.gumroad.com/l/ux-job-playbook
Conducted a mini design sprint with our team today. Problem defining, ideation and solution sketches done in one single day. β’ Lightning session β’ Crazy 8's β’ Solution sketches Gained a lot of insi...
Top 1% Mentor Recognition from ADPList Another month passed, and again I had the chance to meet amazing people and help them during some of my mentoring sessions on ADPList.
beanywhere Updates Working together with Falko on some new formates, texts and structures for beanywhere. Thanks for your initiatives! π
Practical UI Patterns for Design Systems β Diana MacDonald Have you ever wondered of the differences between component libraries, design systems, front-end style guides or brand and editorial style...
Recognition as Top 1% ADPList Super Mentor Super surprised by the email from ADPList in my inbox this morning. Thanks for the top 1% recognition. I am looking forward to continue meeting amazing pe...
I am learning how to code and as I started with HTML, CSS and Javascript in 2019 I decided to go for Python right now. For me, learning should be fun and that's why I love to expand some "boring" e...
Hiking in Norway π³π΄ The Norwegian landscape is amazing and sometimes seems to be endless. I wrote an article about a beautiful hike at the lake StorekrΓ¦kkja, stunning photography by Falko Burghause...
Helping junior remote designers!!! ππππ Worked on something for people who are striving for a remote UX/UI position. π Get one of the last free copies of Get your next remote UX job - A Playbook! π
Newsletter ahead I just set up my own newsletter called Grab a Coffee and the first one goes out in the middle of next week. If you sign up you will get weekly insights on UX and UI, breaking into ...
UX Podcast I love podcasts - and I love UX. So what could be more obvious? I started volunteering for UX Podcast to help them with reference search and publishing.
Speaker at Memorisely Today I had the chance to share my UX/UI experience with other motivated UX designers from the Memorisely community. It was so much fun to sit in a Zoom call at Memorisely aga...
Getting hands on some code and learning Python with FreeCodeCamp. Curious! π€©
Started with Coding Art Got Coding Art by Yu Zhang and Mathias Funk for Christmas and started reading and working through this great book. My first approach using Processing Language -> MERRY CHRIS...
Mentoring on ADPList I am happy to hear many stories, share my own and give back to the community and to people from around the world as a mentor on ADPList.
UX design interview challenge I got a few design challenges during interview process and wanted to share some of my deliverables for a challenge I got a few weeks ago. It was not business related a...
beAnywhere.ch Updating information about us. Not ready yet but close to it. π It's worth having a look at it. More to come soon. π€©
Design System It's been two weeks now - and my first impression of the Design System Bootcamp at Memorisely? Just brilliant. β¨ Sure, anyone can design components and variants, and now make the clic...
From sketches to hi-fi prototypes Working on a case study takes some time but finally we turned our sketches into working clickable hi-fi prototypes. π
Final Week π This week is the final week of my UX/UI Bootcamp with Memorisely. π Looking back to the last week, our progress was amazing. We fully concentrated on UI components in Figma and made hu...
Accessibility check Checking my own outdoor blog for accessibility and must say - I am not happy with the results. π So we will improve our color palette in the future to make our stories and image...
Customer Journey Mapping Combining marketing know-how with design skills and mapping out a customer journey map for Unplugged.rest. Just love to work in Figjam π
Information Architecture This week I collaborated with a great designer from San Francisco on the in information architecture and of Unplugged.
The break is over and weβre back in Memorisely's UX/UI Bootcamp. π« Week 6 was all about the application and hiring process in the design industry. First-round we talked about jobs in the industry, ...
First half of the UX/UI bootcamp at Memorisely is over. π What an amazing time I had until now. I learned so much, I got introduced to wonderful people and am working on a case study for Margot Com...
Week no. 4 of the UX/UI bootcamp Memorisely I have learned incredible much this week. β‘οΈ What do I take with me? Last week we were still working with wireframes, whereas this week we are preparing ...
Third week of Memorisely's UX/UI Bootcamp Things really get down to business. What do I take away from this week? User flows are diagrams and show the path that users take to reach their goal. Deci...
Second week of Memorisely UX/UI Bootcamp Topics this week: data synthesis and ideation. What are my takeaways from this week? I can divide the data from my survey into different user segments, whic...
High-fidelity prototyping Working on high-fidelity prototypes for Margot Community during my case study for Memorisely's UX/UI Bootcamp. Full case study will be online soon. β¨
Wireframing Working in wireframes for Margot Community to provide users with a simpler and more intuitive booking process!
Updated my portfolio. Say hello π https://ux.whitewords.io/
Working on a case study for Margot Community. Margot is an inclusive online network helping women and gender-marginalized individuals find mentors and help them to set up virtual chats.
Conducting user research for Margot Community. π§ If you have 3 minutes it would be super helpful if you fill out the short 10 question survey about online mentoring. π https://marinaisasking.typefo...
First week during the Memorisely UX/UI bootcamp. π Learning with a motivated group of designers about UX/UI foundations, UX research and starting a case study for Margot Community!
π₯¦Food Blog Newsletter Designed a landing page for newsletter sign up for a food blog using Figma.
Wrote an article about my experiences at the first women-friendly hackathon in Switzerland -> the Hack'n'Lead organized by women++. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/impressions-my-first-hackathon-mar...
Attended the Hack'n'Lead as my first ever women-friendly hackathon which was organized by "women++" in Switzerland. More than 200 women were coding, experiencing, finding ideas and solving problems...
Attending first day of the July Design Challenge about information architecture, organized by Memorisely and did an IA sample of a music app. Short, simple and colorful. π§
βοΈ Coffee Shop A local coffee shop is opening their doors soon. I created a landing page for the shop's big announcement with a special offer for early adopters.
Doing some design work in Figma for a UI component challenge @ Memorisely.
UX and Brand Design for Steinmanndli A brand strategy to turn great content into amazing experiences and enhance interaction with users. Steinmanndli, these are the experiences of Marina and Falko....
A mobile packing list app for travel preparation When traveling, itβs clear that you want to be well prepared, so that all your important and indispensable things, but also the very personal stuff ...