Summary of my 2018: sketching for UX, online teaching and UX design
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7 min readJan 4, 2019
In this article, I take a look back at my 2018: what I accomplished as an online teacher and content creator & what inspired me as a UX designer.
🎓Online teaching
- I published a new course on Udemy: Development Fundamentals for UX & How to Involve Developers. It’s an 8-hour long course that contains more than 60 sketches!
- Here are two UX Knowledge Base Sketches that summarize what my new course is about:
- My previous course, Sketching for UX Designers — Boost UX work with pen &paper! is still among the top courses on Udemy
✏️Sketching for UX Designers
✏️UX visual library building challenge
- I published an article about my 100-day long UX visual library building challenge (You can start the challenge here)
- The awesome UX Mastery community took part in the challenge, here are 2 posts about it:
- A blog post about my sketching challenge written by Jen Blatz
✏️UX Knowledge Base Sketches
- I created 51 more UX Knowledge Base Sketches
- Most popular topics: Design System, Product Development Process, Design Sprint, Journey Mapping, Prototyping, UI Animation
✏️Live sketchnoting at UX conferences
- I attended two awesome conferences in 2018: WebExpo and Amuse UX.
- I cooperated with WebExpo organizers, and I ran a giveaway for my community and gave away 1 free ticket.
- I created 16 sketchnotes during WebExpo, here is an article that contains them, and I also give some advice on sketchnoting for UX designers:
- I made 14 sketchnotes during the Amuse UX conference, here you can check them out and read about my key takeaways:
️✏️Sketching for UX designer: community
- My students submitted a lot of great work, here is one example, a mind map created by one of my students, Julia Dahl:
- There are currently 4600+ designers inside the Sketching for UX Designers Facebook Group — I’m so grateful for this community!
- I’m also grateful for an article written by Bruno Winck, it’s about my work:
🎈Some of my biggest inspirations in 2018
🎈Visual thinkers & Designers
- Anna Iurchenko and her Sketch It! publication
- Eva-Lotta Lamm — check out her Visual Starter Kit!
- Chris Spalton — this article was especially inspiring: Create memories by sketching! (and his indie comic book, Eelman Chronicles!)
- Nadine Roßa — I loved the slides of this talk: Draw to Remember
- Makayla Lewis— her sketchnotes are epic! For example this one.
- My biggest Instagram inspirations: Bogomolova Anfisa (her Instagram) and Luboš Volkov (his Instagram)
- Pablo Stanley — he published several great articles last year! (And I’m a big fan of his comics.)
- Anna Staśkiewicz — I love her style, great sketchnoter
- Jeff Gothelf— he made me understand what the essence of a digital product development process is
- Yuri Malishenko—check out his articles about using whiteboards
- Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger — thanks for improving my UI design skills!
- Make it pop team — they ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for a promising brainstorming tool: a card game!
🎈Books
- User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton
- This is Service Design Doing
- Sense & Respond by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan & Steve Schoger
🎈Articles
- Good to great UI animation tips by Pablo Stanley
- The Evolution of UX Process Methodology by Ian Armstrong
- Gamification: A guide for designers to a misunderstood concept by David Teodorescu
- How to build a better product with UX writing by Anastasiia Marushevska
🎈Design talks
- Design Systems at Scale by Rich Fulcher at WebExpo 2018
- Designing for Attention by Adrian Zumbrunnen at Amuse UX 2018 (slides)
- You’re going to die and no-one is going to give a shit. by Chris Spalton (slides)
- Embracing friction by Zoltan Kollin at Interaction 18
🎈UX design: podcast episodes
- UI Breakfast Podcast. Episode 103: UX Personalization with Samuel Hulick
- Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast: Jeff Gothelf on how to redefine the measure of success for software development
🎈Design community
- UX Budapest Meetup: I’m so grateful for the events organized by the UX Budapest group. I was lucky enough to attend so many meetups in the previous years. This was the most inspirational one for me in 2018: Collaboration & Design Readiness
- UX Roundtable — I’m also thankful for this meetup series organized by Norbi Gaal. I love the discussions, interesting insights. Last year the most inspiring one was about design leadership.
- Meeting Pablo Stanley at Amuse UX
- Meeting Bogomolova Anfisa, Eugenia Jongewaard (and other UX professionals) after the WebExpo conference
🙏Thanks!
Just like in 2018, knowledge sharing is going to be one of my top priorities this year: I’m planning to create more free content (e.g. UX Knowledge Base Sketches) & courses.
Thank you so much for following my work, and supporting me throughout my journey!
