#When I was transitioning to UX it took

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eager prawn
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I was trying to get into UX, i learned I lack most of the skills and experience needed so I applied for my old job as a production designer.

robust oxide
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Why do you think you lack most of the skills

eager prawn
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feedback from mentors, reviews, interviews. I also come from a marketing background, I have no experience with software, which has come up several times as a must have from hiring managers

robust oxide
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I came from graphic design in marketing team before I transition

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When you get the feedback did you ask about what action you can do to fulfill those skills that you are lacking?

eager prawn
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I did.

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I need to build software basiclly

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not websites, which is all i know how to do

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so i guess I will start learning programming, even though you supposedly don't need to know that

robust oxide
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When you say software what do you mean by that?

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My last position I was the lead designer for a SaaS company

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They build ā€œsoftwareā€ but itā€™s web based

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So itā€™s websites

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I never learned how to code either

eager prawn
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but it still works like software, so it follows logic?

robust oxide
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You need to be code literate but not require to code

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More of web design logic

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Why do you think they are different?

eager prawn
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it's weird because i can code, but I don;t know how a programmer thinks...code logic...

robust oxide
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You only need to know some basic front end so you can talk to devs

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And knowing some constraints

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Thatā€™s it

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I got in without knowing any of that

eager prawn
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I had to make a flow chat for my coursera UX course...it's been a month and i still haven't figured it out

robust oxide
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User flow?

eager prawn
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something like that

robust oxide
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Is it that something you donā€™t understand or just havenā€™t get to it yet

eager prawn
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i just don't understand it

robust oxide
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Can you elaborate your thought process

eager prawn
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like my thought process on user flows?

robust oxide
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Your thought process of creating a user flow, what are some of the questions that pop up

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Since you said you donā€™t understand it then you must have questions

eager prawn
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ummmm....i know a user comes to a website from a search or direct link. then they either click a CTA and do something else, look around the website or bounce.

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That's my 15 year's worth of exprience as a designer, lol

robust oxide
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So you got the starting point!

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You know how the logic should go

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Then add in the human part and be detail

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Explore opportunities

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If itā€™s a landing page, why did a user come in, if they are there for specific reason, then what will they look for

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For the things they try to achieve, how many entry points are there, what kind of decisions users will encounter

eager prawn
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yeh...that's where i get lost

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i dunno what any of that would look like. My design has only focsed on getting the user to sign up or whatever it is, everything else i was told is undesirable in marketing

robust oxide
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Then donā€™t think of it in terms of marketing

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Thereā€™s overlap with marketing but itā€™s not marketing

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Marketing focus on the before, how to get people to the website, experience designer think about the during

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Feel free to DM me instead Iā€™m about to do some house work I might not see this thread

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But Iā€™m available to answer your questions

eager prawn
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Thank you very much. I'm doing my best to connect with and learn from others in a similar background coming into UX. I'm gonna take a quick break and then make this screen recording for the interview. Thank you again for chatting.

robust oxide
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Sure no problem

eager prawn
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Hi Lilith - Hope you are doing well. I tried to follow up on this convo but it took me a while to find the thread again. I then tried sending you a friend request but it says you need to DM me first? I'm not familiar with how discord works or the process to use it. Hopefully this is ok?

robust oxide
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Sure let me know what you want to ask

eager prawn
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Hi, @robust oxide I I hope you are doing well. Iā€™m a little unsure where to being with questions. How did you learn SaSS? I did some googling for examples, I guess email and netflix are software but twitter/amazon/facebook is not? I donā€™t understand how email or netflix would be considered softwareā€¦i feel like they are their own 'thing' if that makes sense? Please feel free to correct me if this isnā€™t accurate. How does a designer learn to build this kind of software?

I feel like I really need some kind of ā€˜intro to techā€™ class or something to get the basics. I really struggle to connect with designers lately because I seldom understand what they are talking about.