Winter is coming, and so is our partnership with Adobe, our 1st giveaway, and more!
December Newsletter - Issue 01
Hey there designers, feeling frosty already?
December is right around the corner, which means chilly weather and the holidays are among us! So while you get yourself cozy and in a festive spirit, our Students of UXD newsletters will now be coming to your inbox TWICE a month to give you the rundown on everything you must know—shorter, sweeter, and simpler. What a joy to spread this holiday season! 🎅
✨ Partnership with Adobe Experience Lab
When Students of UXD was first conceptualized and created, we could not have imagined how quickly we would grow in terms of members and recognition, but dreams really can come true 😍
We are so excited to announce our biggest partnership to date: Students of UXD will be partnering with Adobe Experience Lab in our next event! Adobe Experience Lab is a livestream series for students who want to know more about UX, UI, product design, or any other variation of experience design—a perfect combination to our mission and goals✨
Don't forget to also RSVP at http://bit.ly/souxd and join us on December 5, 2020 at 10:30 AM PDT in our partnered event, Dos and Don'ts for UX Portfolios, with Elizé Todd and the Adobe Experience Lab!
✨ Our first giveaway with UXVN Festival 2020
We are so excited to be a community partner of UXVN Community's UXVN Festival 2020.
To celebrate this partnership, Students of UXD is giving 2 lucky winners a ticket to the UXVN Festival 2020. UXVN Festival is a one-day virtual conference with talks, panels, fireside chats to learn and discuss with our amazing line-up of Design Leaders about UX, Product, Design, and their experiences promoting and transforming UX within their organizations.
2 lucky winners will be chosen randomly and will be notified by December 10. Good luck to ya’ll!
📆 Our Upcoming Events
As always, we have some events lined up with awesome speakers, you don’t want to miss them!
☝ Leveraging Your Network as a Designer
Experts say that the most successful people are the most connected people and it will not be wrong to say, your network is your net worth, and this is especially true for designers! If you've been wondering how to best leverage and utilize your network as a designer, join SOUXD at our next event with Victoria Wu, Antonio Song, and Brandon Lal—all are interns turned Associate Product Designers at LinkedIn!
This event will be half presentation and half fireside chat for designers at all levels but will be specifically geared towards new designers who are just getting into the field. There will be opportunities to mingle and ask questions about these designers' journeys into product design as well!
Date: December 1, 2020
Time: 5:00 PM PST
✌ Dos and Don'ts for UX Portfolios
We know you’ve all been prepping up your portfolios and applying to internships for the next season, just like us. And with so many new and young designers, getting your portfolio just right can be daunting. It’s not just about great design work, but also how you organize it and articulate it on your website.
Join us at our next speaker event, with experience designer, educator, and content creator Elizé Todd in Students of UXD's first partnership with Adobe Experience Lab as we understand portfolio Do's and Don’ts together. We'll also be having 3-4 live portfolio reviews during event—so don't miss your chance at getting your own portfolio reviewed live in front of a live Crowdcast audience.
Elizé is an enterprise instructor for Adobe XD, teaches at General Assembly, as well as runs her own consultancy. She has a passion for motivating and inspiring designers through her speaking engagements and content on YouTube and Instagram.
Date: December 5, 2020
Time: 10:30 AM PST
🎥 Missed an event? No worries—we got you!
We all know life can get in the way of a live event, so we make sure to ask our speakers if we can record their presentations to share with you all. Whether you're viewing it for the first time or re-watching it again, you can find all available past event recordings on our website.
Cool—now go knock yourself out with amazing new UXD knowledge.
👑 Student Stories
Our UXD Student spotlight for this month is Ashish Durgude.
During my CS undergrad, I was into front-end development. I was good at HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, etc. but when I reached 4th year of my bachelor's program, I realized that it's not the coding that I am passionate about, it's the design…
🔥 Resources
Podcast with Darren Hood, our Bubble Busting #1 event speaker: The World of UX with Darren Hood
Article by Mei Ke, our LGBTQ + UX event speaker: How to make an LGBTQ+ inclusive survey
UX article: Designing for Voice at Spotify
Internship opportunities:
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