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Using your UX Design skills on the one product that needs it most — yourself

Applying the skills of research, define personas, explore UX patterns, and lo-fi sketch to oneself.

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Mick Gow
Feb 25, 2016 • 7 min read
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Design Thinking
Personal Development
Growth Mindset

Summary

Designers spend a lot of time perfecting the products they work on each day without using their design skills to finely craft themselves. Mick Gow breaks down the activities of designers on a product translating them to the experience users have with the product. He states that designers should instead treat themselves as a product to understand their audience's experience. Read the article to learn more about why designers should consider themselves as a product and how they should craft themselves to adapt to their audience.

Takeaways

  • As a UX Designer, you design the experience people have with the products you create. As such, you’re a product, and people experience working with you every day.
  • As designers, we often spend a lot of time perfecting the products we work on each day without even taking the time to use our years of design skills to finely craft ourselves.
  • Designers have an audience so get to know them to understand what motivates them, and what they need from you.

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