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Jordan Bowman

UX Challenges - For UX designers to learn and practice crucial skills

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Stop reading about UX and actually try it out!
💪 Practice with real-world exercises.
🛠 Train yourself in crucial skills and tools.
💼 Take away portfolio-worthy deliverables.
👩🏻‍💻 Useful for beginners and experts alike.

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Robin
Cool idea! Thanks a lot
Jordan Bowman
Maker
Hey Product Hunt friends! 👋🏼 We made these UX Challenges so that designers can learn and practice crucial UX skills. There are too many clichéd UI exercises out there. These challenges are different: 👩🏻‍💻 Based in the real world. This isn't another fake redesign or "create an ATM for a centaur." Every exercise looks like a project you'd get in real life. 🛠 Practice important skills. UX is more than just UI. Each challenge helps you understand and train a specific UX skill like card sorting or usability testing. 💪 Stop reading: try UX. Nothing improves design skills faster than doing design work. Practice solving problems and see what real UX work is like. 💼 Get tangible takeaways. Have fun with mini projects, then walk away with a deliverable to put in your portfolio or use as a talking point in interviews. Each challenge has a real-world scenario, a task aimed at helping you practice a specific skill, hand-picked references if you need help, and recommended tools. Follow along on 🐦 Twitter: we'll be re-sharing and posting feedback for people who share their completed challenges there. Let us know what you think! Will you take on one of the challenges? Cheers, Jordan & Taylor
ayberk bozkus
I'm not a designer but I must design. I like your project, i will try it :D
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@ayberkbozkus Great Ayberk, let us know what you think when you try it out!
Taylor Palmer
Maker
@ayberkbozkus That one of the reasons we made it—you don't have to be a designer to want to get better at design!
Zaryab Waseem
Simple and actually useful.
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@zedandwhite 💥 Thanks Zaryab!
Taylor Palmer
Maker
@zedandwhite "Actually useful" is my new favorite way to describe this 😄
Subhendu
This is something I would actually use to improve my designs skills. Even being a developer I think some design skills definitely helps to improve product overall. 🙂
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@thisissubhendu That's awesome Subhendu, glad you'll find it useful. Totally agree that design skills can be great for a developer to learn (and vice versa 😉).
Taylor Palmer
Maker
@thisissubhendu I really love the idea of developers using this to practice. Thanks!
Thalion
The whole idea is stunning 💪 Congrats on the launch!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@thalion_pb Thank you Thalion, appreciate you taking an early look and giving us feedback 😉
Michel Gagnon
Actually, it's even super useful for non-designers. I like your hand-picked tutorial recommendations. Nice work!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@michel_gagnon1 Thanks Michael! Who else do you see working these? Maybe product managers?
Michel Gagnon
@jrdnbwmn Product Manager definitely, but also for marketing/growth team members and customer success reps.
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@michel_gagnon1 Ah yeah, that makes sense!
Mateusz Zaród
I just love project based approach to learning, what you get is far mor valuable than practical skills, cause you get real portfolio. Do you have to know Figma or any toole to start learning?
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@mateusz_zarod1 We love project based learning as well Mateusz. You don't have to know Figma (or Sketch, Adobe XD) to do many of these challenges. You can use an easier-to-learn tool like Miro for lots of them!
Aman Gupta
This is really amazing tool to improve your UX design skills. Actually very useful for UX Designers looking for practical exercises. Congrats!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@aman_gupta9 Thank you Aman! Our aim was to make it as useful as possible.
Kadir Inip
It is a really useful and unbelievable resource for people who want to improve their design skills. Congrats!!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@kdrnp Thanks Kadir! Hope it helps!
Jonathan Widawski
Congrats on the launch @_taylorpalmer & @jrdnbwmn — this is excellent. As a former UX teacher, this would have made my life so much easier, great job!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@_taylorpalmer @widawskij Thanks so much Jonathan! Glad you like it, we agree that this is something design teachers could make use of!
Taylor Palmer
Maker
@jrdnbwmn @widawskij Great to see you here Jonathan! And using this as a UX mentor/teacher is a perfect use case.
Akar Sumset
What a great idea! Looking forward to seeing shared results.
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@aakars Thanks Akar, we are too!
Ovan
Great ux design challenges that actually matter! Congrats on the launch!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@ovan Thank you Ovan, we hope these help people learn valuable skills!
Tess Miller
Cool idea!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@tess_miller Thanks so much Tess!
Srayan Goswami
A big shoutout to Jordan Bowman and Taylor Palmer who created this awesome platform. Thank you guys. <3
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@srayan_goswami1 We enjoyed creating it, hope it's helpful!
Benoit Chambon
Very useful. People do not think enough of UX! Great job guys!
Taylor Palmer
Maker
@benoit_chambon Thanks! we think about it a lot 😅
Brian Perez
This looks amazing. Definitely, something that I could use with my mentees and less experienced junior designer on my team to help them level up
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@brian_perez Awesome Brian, let us know how it goes!
Jack Glacken
Really useful ideas for beginners like myself. They give you everything you need to go and do the projects. Very well thought through. When you don't have a lot of experience, it's easy to get really lost, by giving you the task and the educational resources to complete the task, it's like a complete package.
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@jackgdesignexplorer Thanks Jack, appreciate your feedback!
Mayank Mishra
Launching soon!
hey this is really helpful for designers! @jordan cool job
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@jordan @mishra_mayank Cheers Mayank!
Jay Surovy
I needed this so bad...Thank you guys!!!!
Jordan Bowman
Maker
@jaysurovy Glad it's helpful Jay!