Step by Step UX Product Design Roadmap for Beginners 2024 (100% Free)

I have been designing apps and websites for the last 5 years as a college student I have competed at hack MIT hack Howard and the Microsoft imagine cup as a student of ux design I have interned at swiggy twice as a professional I joined a v combinator backed startup as their first ux designer that eventually raised $13.5 million in their series a funding throughout this process I have been documenting my learnings in thorough detail this master class will give away all of the key L lessons and a proper road mapap that you can use to become a ux designer faster than ever using strategy and of course latest AI tools I gave this master class at the College of Engineering Pune to pun KAS Workshop where we discussed how to use AI for growing faster and making more money you'll find a free download link to my presentation in description watch this video till the end because three of you will end up winning my favorite books so without without further Ado let's get started how many of you have a ux internship or a job how many of you are working okay so less than say 10% people have a job rest of you want a job or want an internship correct interesting so folks this is the agenda for today we have a lot of things in plan sub we'll figure out how do you get your first paying internship or job and I usually prefer internships because it is easier to get The Internship it is way more easier to ask for a 3-month internship and then impress your recruiter and then eventually convert in the second module we'll understand how can you use chat GPT in your day-to-day ux work on your WhatsApp group we had asked that if you want to share your portfolio or work we would love to review it on stage so there are two three portfolios that have shortlisted from the audience and we will use Chad GPT to analyze their work so it's going to be a Life practical and then module three is for a live Q&A let's start at module number one ke how how do you even get your first paying gig folks nobody will pay you unless you really really good at what you do and everyone knows this the issue is there are three popular reasons why you are not getting hired number one you're just not good enough at what you do this is the simplest reason awareness that is your fault but if people are not paying attention to you it's mostly because you're not good enough or or maybe you are good enough but you're not visible which means that your portfolio is not online you don't have a presence on LinkedIn basically the people who want you don't know that you exist yeah at the very end even if you are visible even if you get to the interview rounds you don't know how to sell yourself so you're a terrible Communicator you don't know how to speak you don't know how to write there are many issues with your soft skills so we will understand how do you improve in each of these three sections you need to run an audit of your knowledge of the tool and the subject and I keep saying this again and again no matter what skill you pick the skill has two components one is the tool one is the subject now what do I mean by that before I go ahead with the breakdown there's one very important thing to note and I think we can dim Down the Lights I think otherwise it'll get very illegible for the last student even if it even if I'm not legible on the video that's completely okay but let's make sure that the screen has contrast a lot of students feel that having a design degree is mandatory no it is great if you have a design degree or a certification but it is not mandatory what's mandatory is great work so you need to put all your focus on making sure that you are doing great work a lot of students ask me that I've already enrolled in another degree I'm a civil engineer a graphic designer a fashion designer should I drop out and pursue a masters in ux no please don't take such risks in most cases the downside is more than the upside it is better to have whatever degree that you're having right now even if you have spent one one and a half years it's completely okay please pursue that degree finish it and learn ux side by side people say should I wait for a ux job and stay at my house and work on a few internships and then apply for a job no please it is not rocket science please continue whatever job you're in please keep continuing whatever you're doing and spend one to two hours at the Side Learning ux I'm telling you it is very much possible you don't have to go through that stress and that embarrassment that oh I am sitting at home applying for jobs I'll give you the full list of topics that you need to learn because it would be a waste of time to go through tutorials so I'll tell you what you need to learn and where can you learn it from for free okay even then after getting the list and the resources I can bet that majority of you will not take this advice seriously so if we have 50 people or 100 people in the auditorium only five to six people will actually take this advise and complete it till the very end and only those five or six will make money everybody else will just have a simple dribble and behance profile please make sure you're not one of those and I would be very very happy if all of you do this and break the stats but please take this advice seriously just because I'm giving it for free doesn't mean that it's not valuable should I rely on memory should I just do things on my own not at all please make sure you build a habit of documenting every single day no matter what you're doing I have been documenting my learnings since 2016 I was in my 12th I used to make YouTube videos then in 2021 or 2022 I switched to notion please make sure you're documenting everything otherwise you will forget in fact in the middle of the session I will show you my own notion Pages as well I have never revealed them on YouTube but today I will actually show you how I have documented things since 2019 so this is one of those pages uh this started in 2019 and you can see all the topics that I had kept okay and you would realize that I have picked the smallest of things and I have created a dedicated page for it for example for something as simple as being a first designer at a startup guide or building a good design team or just getting feedback grids and layouts these are individual topics that a designer needs to learn about and I've kept all of those things near L organized so that I can revisit them again and again if someone is struggling with these topics I can open up these pages and share the right Resources with her in fact now when I'm in 2022 and 2023 what I've done is I rename the pages with the year itself because I realize that every year the titles are going to be the same so now this is how I've named all of my pages 2023 UI design resources 2024 UI design resources so now it has become really really easy for me to sort of go through all of this and don't worry I'll have have the entire presentation uploaded on the WhatsApp group so you'll get all the PDFs so don't worry about that now if I go into a specific page this is how I write okay I will have a heading I'll have a basic subheading and then just write whatever thoughts I would have in my brain there's no structure to this there are no rules to documentation you can write them in a Shabby way you can write them in whatever language you want just make sure that you're capturing the intent behind your thought if you were to read my language You' realize that I'm literally talking as if I'm texting someone and that is how it's supposed to be this is not going on LinkedIn these are your own personal notes and you just need to make sure you document your thoughts now remember I said for any skill there is a tool and a subject let's cover the tool in our case it's most probably the figma that you have to crack figma is the core tool that you need to learn step number one we start with auto layout constraints and creating responsive layouts how many of you are still not well versed with constraints is it is there anyone who has not tried constraints oh I mean even if you embarrassed you will say but yeah if you haven't tried constraints please make sure you get your hands on it super important for like level one components variance and variables I know a lot of you would have tried components and variant variables be honest how many of you have not tried variables quite a few so many of you we've uploaded a 1 hour long video on our YouTube channel breaking down VAR Ables it is the next big thing styles are going to get outdated variables is the next big thing please start learning basics of Design Systems this is why things become slightly tricky but I think in a design system just basics of declaring your color palette typography Styles and components that is more than enough if you understand input Fields absolutely best if you finished your colors typography and input fields that is more than enough and if you know how to create them in multiple themes you are absolutely sorted you'll be the top 5% when it comes to ux please make sure that you're really really good at refining the problem statement and priorities when you're working in a company see when you go for an internship when you go for a job there would be some people who would not understand design but they would understand business okay they will come to you with business requirements and with a sample set of problems for example I was giving this example to somebody else as well let's say you working in a company that sells clothes and you are a UI designer for their mobile app the product manager comes to you and says that Ria you design this app we want to sell our limited edition jacket nobody is buying the jacket there's something wrong with the UI let's do something that will make this jacket more appealing so that people click on the checkout button you got the problem statement but as a designer you did not ask more questions you directly started working on the problem statement turns out that in the real scenario if I come to your app as soon as I click on check out turns out there is no option to pay so there is an issue in the user flow after you click check out turns out there was no problem in the UI but the PM missed this fact because they did not look at the Dropout data there's this metric called Dropout where you check the entire user Journey from the user opening the app till the user paying so you have be very very careful that you refine the right problem you can't just expect that just because this PM is coming to me with this problem this is the real problem because most of your thought process or your problem solving skills start at refining the problem once you have refined the problem next step is about deciding the priorities because when you're a designer you will have 10 things to solve everything will seem wrong to you because you have the I for it so you will be an expert at finding out imperfections but not every imperfection will get you business basically not solving every problem will get you business and for a lot of startups getting business is on top priority functionality is more important than Aesthetics but as a designer we keep getting super excited about animations and colors and making things gorgeous and just making things more appealing but your topmost priority in is to make sure that your design drives business so you will set the priorities with the PM that forget about all of these nine other problems this one problem will help us get more Revenue so deciding the priorities second basics of information architecture basics of Design Systems and basics of user Journeys these are mandatory what is an information architecture you don't need me for that just go to Google and figure it out it is literally you deciding a map of your entire app how many pages are there how many subpages are there and of course you can Google this you don't need me to explain then of course basics of systems I've already covered this I had made a video a long time back it was titled 10 ux design resources as good as a ux design degree and I have mentioned some supremely important resources that you need to check out once you go back home I'm mentioning this video because I thought this video would be viewed by a lot of people but it wasn't and you're missing out on a lot of important free resources in this one there's a new website called library. score. and this website has done an amazing job at curating some of the most crazy free tools out there free resources out there a really good repository I thought I'll share it with you so yes uh oh yeah this is the slide I think the slide got mixed up but these are the remaining points that I wanted you to explore you know when it comes to design in general number four understanding of UI guidelines so many of you start designing on F Sigma without reading the interface guidelines first of all as a beginner UI designer please narrow down the niche that you're trying to sell yourself in web or mobile let's say mobile because mobile has limited real estate it is easier to crack within mobile you decide Android or iOS go for iOS because the clientele for iOS is high ticket a lot of businesses are trying to launch iOS apps first if you pick iOS pick just two to three domains I would recommend either fintech or edtech because fintech and edtech companies are on a rise e-commerce apps are on a rise but if you're really really good at artistic apps or like gallery apps for the iOS you will not have enough customers for it but if you become an expert in fintech edtech or web3 or crypto these kind of applications have a huge huge demand for designers so let's revise you first chose between web and iOS sorry web and mobile then with within mobile you choose between Android and iOS within iOS you pick two three domains and then you start reading the Apple human interface guidelines which is hiig you understand what is a sheet what are the different states of the input button what are the different kind of checkboxes apple has because I see so many resumes and portfolios where it is a mockup of an iPhone and in the middle all input fields are absolutely nonsense random input fields random buttons absolute no idea of what iOS requires from you your app will instantly be rejected if you don't follow the guidelines so it's supremely important that you're well worsed with the UI guidelines next basic understanding of visual design hierarchy and accessibility Three core components of how your UI looks visual design is bare Aesthetics but then hierarchy is supremely important you can have a really goodlook UI everything is sorted but the hierarchy is messed up which means that even though everything looks pretty the user is not noticing the most important thing first the user is noticing some random stuff so you need to make sure that the hierarchy is sorted then you have accessibility making sure that the text is big enough contrast is there the colors are right and at the very end pitching using prototypes you need to know how to sell your designs how to sell your story how to create realistic looking prototypes within figma a lot lot of people still don't know about this resource but we have created a website called learn .in which literally has a 9 we free guideline road map like it is a proper proper road map to get to a ux design career and just to summarize in week one we cover all the basics of what is figma what is ux if you go to week three you'll Master everything you need to know about figma everything that I mentioned for the tool once you reach week 10 you will actually reach to a point of Designing for AR and VR which is about spatial design which is the future spatial design is the next big thing for 2024 but the thing is a lot of people are either not aware or they're not trying to follow this up Google recently made this website public it's called pair. with google.com where they've given a couple of AI design guidelines they have actually taught AI patterns that you need to learn when you're designing applications that use AI incredibly awesome resource it'll teach you a lot about creating better interfaces so I think a lot of cohorts give you community they give you a road map but in the end you are the one who has to learn and spend the next one year horning your skills so don't expect Magic from any of these courses or certifications you need to make sure that you plan for the next 6 months and in six months you can only do the basics by the way it takes one proper year and when I say one year I mean at least two hours of every day study which means at least 600 hours you need 600 hours to become decent enough to get your first job should you take a gap year no just get a job pay your own bills because staying at home is going to be more embarrassing for you people will put more pressure on you and then you won't have the peace of mind to learn design on your own should I do cold Outreach doesn't work barely works I would recommend to learn and build in public whatever you're learning write about it on LinkedIn create carousals put yourself on the internet that is the only way to get attention the right way should I be just a designer no if you're interested in no codee try to put your hands on no code get more skills and I would recommend learn writing and persuasion these skills are the fundamentals of being charismatic and Charisma is one subject that very few people talk about I get so many emails I was showing this to the team as well this guy sent me an email saying I have no clue give me a road map and it was in such a bad terrible grammar like I was just amazed that how did this guy even press send knowing what he has written there there was this one guy uh who sent me an email saying that was all like that was the email no subject but I know most of you will not do this but I'm just letting you know that anytime you're sending an email anytime you're doing Outreach that has to be very very well written should I stay indoors hustle all the time no folks most of these people who can give you jobs are actually out there they're in the world so they're in office spaces they go to meetups they go to events and I go to so many of these talks and lectures right and anytime I go to this event I would find some good designer now designer number L and then I would refer that Designer to somebody else and that girl or guy would get hired like that is literally how it works so in all of these events me and every other senior designer they're always on a lookout for good talent it is a myth ke company periods for job openings like there's no job opening they're always hiring good talent if you are getting rejected or if they're not replying to your messages it's only because you're not good enough but every great company is hiring 365 days so be mindful of that you should 100% check out Charisma on command YouTube Charisma on command oh a lot of you it is a game changer I would totally totally recommend every single person even on Instagram please start watching Charisma on command Charisma as a subject is highly underrated and I keep telling designers that people will not only buy the experiences you design but they also buy the experience of working with you you need to be a person who is charming you need to be a person who is good with his or her words you need to be someone who's very smooth and you will attract more opportunities and it is not that difficult I have done it a lot of my friends have done it it is super simple should you always ask for a job no always ask to work as an intern and please don't go less than 10,000 rupees per month I met a student yesterday he was in a college studied ux and he said that I got hired at 6,000 rupees per month of internship stien educated ux designer getting a stien of 6,000 Rupees is absolutely nuts that recruiter is simply exploiting him but he's not aware so if you want to go low please don't ever agree to work at 10,000 per month and I would recommend do 10,000 per month remote this guy was going to office and then getting 6,000 rupees per month that is the state if you don't know how to sell yourself if you're selling to the wrong kind of people should you be calculative a lot of students do this when they start out that uh they ask me to work for just 5 hours but now they're making me hustle for 10 hours what should I do if they are good people if you feel that the product has potential go all in when I got my first job at zle I was working almost 8 to 9 hours a day and I know some people say that it's toxic or whatever but I was driven nobody was telling me to work 9 hours a day this was not mandatory from my boss I did it because I wanted to change my life and if you have a strong desire to change your life you will have to put in the work so always make sure that in the initial parts of your career you give more than what you get and trust me it compounds you build a lot of good relationships so let's have a quick revision of model number one we first understood that you need to be really really good at the tool and the subject both of them everything is available expect except your intent bad spelling every single thing that you want to learn can be learned for free the only thing that is missing right now is your energy levels and your dedication to invest your time be visible to the right kind of people nobody cares if you put stuff on LinkedIn and the right people are not connected with you or the right people are not following you you if your friends are following you on LinkedIn what is the use of LinkedIn so don't send connect requests to your friends this is not Facebook this is a place where you get work please be mindful of that and please stop adding that I got a certificate from this and this University from this and this course what nonsense nobody cares I would also recommend not write stuff that oh I went to this event and this happened no just share your learnings just your learnings nobody cares where you went you have to give value on LinkedIn not on LinkedIn actually in any part of life you will only get attention only if you give value so what are some important call to actions number one start focusing on your writing and speaking skills and exercise at least three times a week please folks it would be like exercise how did like exercise come into this but of course we'll get into that someday later but if you've seen any of my videos you would realize how much emphasis I put on sleep nutrition and exercise it really really matters because your energy levels are directly tied to those three components and your quality of life is directly tied to your energy levels if your energy levels are low none of this tip or none of these techniques will help you at all please make sure you're focusing on that start learning from learn uiux doin if you still haven't and start document all of your learnings and write about what you're learning daily on either LinkedIn or Twitter I would recommend to First write on Twitter make a tweet thread copy paste the same thing put it on link go to chat GP get a fake image and put it on the text post easiest hack don't just take a text thread and put it on LinkedIn put an image generated by AI we covered this yesterday as well takes just 60 seconds but it is such a good hack so yes now that the theory is out of our way let's do some live demos let's check out module number two as to how can you use chat GPT in your design processes and there are three core use cases that we will cover today okay number one is getting UI feedback from chat GPT then getting res resume feedback so we will put your resume we'll take a JD and ask JD is job description basically what the company puts as a job description and then we'll ask chat GPT to tell us where are we lacking and at the very end using AI to learn about mental models and ux laws so is Paras here hi Paras so Paris sent his portfolio and he's made it on framer I'm very very impressed did you code and design all of it no it's a template it's a template but you still learned how to edit the template right so that he's is very smart framer is a no code platform any of you can learn framer in 10 to 15 days and have your portfolio look like this it's a great first impression so let's let's figure out let's assume that parus wants to now use chat GPT have you used chat GPT parus to figure out about design have you ever used that you have yes and what are some use cases that you've tried out like making user personas making user personas okay so number one folks please don't use chat GPD for user person personas uh this is a very very common LinkedIn post I know that people share this advice quite often uh but the thing is user Persona is the most human thing of your entire research and don't use Chad GPT for things that are so human uh it's very very difficult for Chad GP to understand what a user would want only a human being can tell you but I know where you're coming from because that is the most common advice that people give so what I'm going to do is I'm going to copy this go to chat GPT paste it and say review this design portfolio it's mine I am applying for a good Tech UI design job only tell me these three things okay number one any copy or text feedback grammar mistakes I should fix okay number two any topics or content I should add to increase my chances any areas it's getting slightly cobbed I don't know why but let me see if I can hide this is it possible to hide this okay very com very complicated let's just minimize it so that you guys can see everything cool any areas where I can learn and improve okay super basic okay Paris could have literally asked for anything in L than 10 seconds it went through the portfolio and it is now giving me proper feedback so let's check out copy and text it is well structured and professional however it's always beneficial to proof read okay content suggestions to enhance your portfolio consider adding more case studies or examples details about your problem solving approach including testimonials from clients and colleagues and any awards or recognitions so parus now I will ask you is there a reason why you've not added any testimonials because you don't have experience is that the reason and any awards or recognitions no so are you not adding them on purpose or you saying don't have them yet I don't have them interesting and areas for improvement in the realm of UI continue learning okay so in that case I think for UI text proms do terrible okay so now what I'll do is I'll go to his portfolio and let's check out a project okay I'll take take this project and let's take this app okay I'll right click save this image and let me call this as sample one okay I'll go to chat GPT click on this icon this is only available in the paid plan I'll go to desktop okay review actually first I'll say act as a senior UI designer let me give you context about this UI okay now I'll go to your case study and I'll copy this entire paragraph go back here paste this again let me see if you've added any more text oh you've already oh this is this the original UI no no this is yours and then you've mentioned the problems and then this is your design solution interesting okay so I think that much context is good enough and then let me go here let me close this tab give me concrete feedback on the following UI and visual tweaks component level feedback edge cases and core problem use cases and then now I'm giving proper guidelines on how I want the output to be so I will say please give practical pointers in bullet points and every tip with a CTA let's press enter now it is going to read your entire UI took less than 10 seconds and now it has started to give individual feedback for every single thing let's check out the purple Hue is dominant and consistent good for Branding but consider incorporating complimentary colors to enhance visual hierarchy let's see if it's right makes sense you don't have an accent color it could have been better if you had at least one accent color somewhere but this is not a big deal breaker ensure legibility on all the screens some of the smaller text appears challenging to read that is true increase padding around for a cleaner look and better readability now let's just say you read the sentence and you're like what does it even mean where do you want to increase the padding so I can say I couldn't understand the white space thing can you tell me exactly what and how I need to fix it in my UI so now you can cross question you can have a proper conversation about every single thing so let's see what happened so now it is saying for example the proceed to pay button could be having more padding around the text and more margin from the elements above below it to stand out as a primary action let's check out your UI if this makes sense or not proceed to pay oh yeah for sure dude this is super tight so when it comes to by the way like primary buttons it's always better to extend the entire width to keep them at the bottom and so the point here is folks imagine how powerful this can be for a student this is design feedback democratized to an incredible level something that we've never seen before and what you can actually do is so let me now go to another example okay this was Paras next we will review Vin's ux portfolio is vene here awesome V so I saw that you made your portfolio not notion uh how much time has it been for you as a designer it's been like one year one year okay and yeah I applied for the jobs but was too early for me so I just got unpaid in are you in college yeah I'm in my third year okay then unpaid internships are bad but because you're in third year it is still okay so are you starting your third year or you're ending your third year sir I'm my second term of third second semester of third year basically you're about to enter your fourth year and what city do you live in um where's the college basically what city is the I'm in and do you have more ux designers around you or are you the only one sir I'm the only one in my en what are you saying so I have Vin's portfolio in front of me and let's see what is going wrong what exactly is the issue so vit number one I really appreciate that you didn't wait to make a website you made notion so the structure is great but number one thing vene I don't know if it's visible on the screenshot or not the cover picture is highly pixelated see these are the small small things that people miss out and what happens is that when we are designing no sometimes we become blind to these imperfections because we've been seeing it for so long so before sending it to recruiters you need to send it to fellow designers be a part of communities just send it to more designers any designer will open it and instantly tell you there's something wrong okay then you say business strategy user centered design and business outcomes user first of all this is it's not making sense like it the words are great but you need to be clear and not clever being clear is better than being clever right now you're trying to sound clever by using like great words inspiring words but if you were to write something as simple as I design mobile apps that is way more effective or I design mobile apps of ftech startups comes to the point user Center design is in title case business strategy business outcome is in sentence case the S and O should be Capital if the if the middle word is title case then the left and the right words also needs to be like entitle case right and most importantly it is not aligned it is not centrally aligned vites us design portfolio everything is left aligned and the cover is centrally aligned so the alignment breaks now if any experienced designer opens this portfolio that person is going to be like Vinnie doesn't care about these details I will not hire him so you need to avoid these mistakes cool now let's scroll down and don't feel bad when I am making pointing out mistakes today it is only to point out mistakes okay and you need to make sure that you are not your work vene is different Vin portfolio is different all of us are criticizing V's work we're not criticizing vene you understand the difference right even when my YouTube video does terrible I don't feel bad because all of us are employees of ANM I am also an employee of ANM ANM is a fake guy we've created on YouTube and me and my team work for that fake image so that is why we're very detached and we can consume feedback easily so now you say about me my work I've worked on social media management tool landing page redesigning an NGO site redesigning it all of these things cool let's let's open any of these so I'll open redesigning NGO site my role intro challenges and design file so I will open your design file till now everything is sorted nothing bad you're feeling very anxious what he's freaking out he's like I did not see this coming cool now this is a prototype which is a great step instead of showing a figma file you have linked to the Prototype and now I will scroll down cool now the number one thing is let me just press Z so that we have the full View and and let's fit it cool now the thing here is you have understood the basics but your visual design needs a lot of work so in your case the visual design seems slightly old it doesn't look like a real thing you've used the word logo on top left but I would recommend you use Chad GP to get a fake logo instead of making our work underline make that a hover State now how do you use visual design techniques you just observe websites and you trace websites you literally tell yourself that I will take one website every single day and I will Trace them I will spend two three hours every day now let's ask chat GPD I'll click on this icon and let's go to screenshot this is of web UI I designed give me at least 15 ways I can improve this UI for each each suggestion give me a sample URL of a website where I can take inspiration give concrete feedback in bullet points I'll press enter now see what I've done I gave your website I said give me at least 15 ways and I said give me a sample URL of a website that I can take inspiration from it's a very tricky and very complicated prompt first increase text contrast ensure the text stands out against the background for readability inspiration stripe hierarchy in text use size color weight to differentiate so now if you notice all of these tips are still generic when it says hierarchy in text you will still not know where have I gone wrong so in my prompt I could have said tell me exactly where I went wrong and then highlight Where can I improve so are you getting the point so now you literally have Inspirations right in front of you can you imagine the amount of time you can save if you were to do this properly cool so I'll just tell you the prompt if we don't have a quick example I just tell you the prompt you need to take your PDF and you need to take the URL of the job that you're applying to tell J GPT read my PDF see the JD tell me where am I lacking and give me a road map for the next 10 days to fill in the scill Gap it is as simple as that so now you can tailor your CV according to the job description okay now we're almost at the very end uh there are two very very important QR codes that you need to scan can you just give me the mic again because uh I feel like students have all of these tools and all of these resources but they don't have Clarity so number one you need to watch this video that is titled how to make 2024 the best year of your life is there anyone here who has already seen this video okay five six people right so this video will give you utmost Clarity on how you should prioritize your goals I'm telling you the issue is with your prioritization skills it is not with your brain or with your information then the second one is how to get ahead of 99% people it's a career road map basically these work sheets will help you understand what field of career should you really pursue and how should you plan that the entire thing step by step just take a picture and you can scan it when you go back home there are three books that you have to read mandatory books absolutely important books in your college days number one Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill next the almanac of Noel Rian and at the very end rework by David and Jason I've been reading these three books again and again for the past two to three years and I'm telling you anytime I read them I will learn something new they are that indepth they are that insane three areas of your personality that you have to improve in your college days number one your verbal speech and fluency how you speak speak how you say your confidence levels second your writing and your texting skills because as a freelancer as a remote worker if you can't text properly if you can't write emails properly it'll be a huge bottleneck for you you know about this tool called slack it is used for it's like a WhatsApp group but for corporates slack has an interview round where the entire interview round is on slack you have to text they check your texting skills in the interview because if you can't text clearly it's a big sign that you're just not a clear thinker then at the very end physical fitness skin care and clothing we can talk about this for an hour more but I'm just letting you know that go to my YouTube channel there's a playlist called improve your life where I've explained how I fixed my physical fitness skin care and clothing I'm telling you it really really matters no matter what people say everyone judges a book by its cover no matter what the conventional quote says if you feel that you're not very good at English English we created a video where we teach how to improve your English speaking and writing skills this got almost 1.4 million views in just 3 months so this will really really help you and thank you so much for investing your time and money with that being said this is your do Ana signing [Applause] out so just oh just one question [Laughter] all right yes uh I'm 2007 pass out BFA natural Finance okay I took a parenting gap of nearly 12 years insan oh wow please have a round of applause for that's amazing that is so cool my certific you should not worry about young minds young minds are the most distracted Minds ever you will have like 10 times better focus than them so don't feel but in reality candidates quity if you become really good at what you do at only with practice unfortunately communication confidence storytelling what I usually do is I watch a lot of celebrity interviews and I watch a lot of Netflix I would watch a lot of documentaries YouTube videos and session I would take the transcripts of interviews and read the transcripts just to break down reply in fact YouTube mash and mashl lach where they are taking Bollywood songs and they are interviewing the person who made that BW song and that is great for a storytelling student because it will really really teach you you know how a narrative is built I would totally recommend everyone to check it out and I was shocked there are 15 stems of sounds or lots to learn from interviews so it only comes from observation it only comes from practicing I hope you're going to meetups and events and and a story even at home like for me I am always pitching even with my parents or with my mom I have some scheme some way to like pitch so I'm pitching even indoors so just keep practicing and it takes two to three years it's not a six Monon thing it takes time yeah focused on more like being visible so uh like what like will you elaborate more on that like from there to start correct so see being visible has two components offline visibility online visibility okay let's Cover online visibility because that is the easiest for a student in online visibility you have some social platforms that are just for designers some platforms that are for everyone for example Instagram LinkedIn Twitter these are for everyone but a platform like upwork Fiverr bance dribble these are social platforms for just designers right you need to make sure that in your starting you're only putting work on these public platforms like LinkedIn Twitter Instagram because there the sample size is high and the expectations are really low as a student if you were to put something on dribble from day one you will not get attention because dribble has filtered a lot of people the expectations and the standard is really high on dribble what students do is they would start putting stuff on be hands and dribble in the beginning it's and it's very tough to get attention because the pool is very small very filtered it's super tough you need to make sure that whatever you are learning you don't become an online Creator you become a curator there's a big difference I am a Creator because I have some experiences I would make a YouTube video on top of it but a person like sahil Bloom you should check him out sahil Bloom says these are the 10 things I learned from this book here are 10 profiles you can follow to learn about AI he is curating he's not creating he's not saying so as a student being a curator is better than being a Creator so you can become a curator on LinkedIn Twitter and Instagram whatever I you are learning and if you found yeah if you found something interesting if you're reading about a mental law so I forgot to mention that in chat GPT I regularly use chat GPT to learn about mental models I would take a screenshot from moin mobin is this app where you get UI inspiration put it in chat GP and say scan this UI tell me all the ux mental models this app is using to influence me and it would list down that here they've used hick law here they've used Fitz law all of these things so you can do these breakdowns on a daily basis start curating on the social platforms after two years of experience start creating on dble behand and Pinterest so like you suggest not to like just start posting you suggest first curating and Q rating because Q rating will make you better and when you create your content will be good if you directly start creating your content is not going to be good enough to get attention you barely know anything it's better to be a curator then you build your audience in 2 years you'll build your audience after 2 years when you start creating they will applaud you for it so this is online okay offline go to as many meetups events like these as many workshops as many meetups as you can I have paid almost 15 to 20,000 rupees per month just for these events and tickets as a student even now I have paid a subscription fee to enter these small nit you know UK Community us community that are just paid communities of other design influencers just so that my name is in that list if somebody clicks on members they should see Ana face and but it's just a fee that I've paid to show my face and name because it compounds like it really matters but step one for you is be a curator start learning thank you if you enjoyed this video then do check out this video of the same series I am sure that it will help you even more

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Published: Tue Feb 27 2024