
Episode 247: Self-audit for Designers with Rajeev Subramanian
09/09/22 • 32 min
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How can a self-audit help you move forward in your design career? Our guest today is Rajeev Subramanian, founder of Shift UX. You’ll learn about the three stages of doing a self-audit, why it’s important to lean into a specific niche, how this process can help inform your job search strategies, and more.
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Show Notes
- Shift UX – Rajeev’s career advisory program for UX designers and researchers
- The UX Self-Evaluation Guidebook
- Episode 237: UX Writing vs. Content Design with Yuval Keshtcher
- Episode 178: Your Personal Design Style with Meg Lewis
- Branding Pays – a book by Karen Kang
- Reinventing You – a book by Dorie Clark
- Follow Rajeev on LinkedIn and Twitter
This episode is brought to you by Zeplin. Design tools can do almost anything, and with Zeplin they can go even further. Stop spending your time preparing design files for your developers and your PMs. Let Zeplin do it for you! Show user journeys, organize screens, highlight components automatically. See how you can go from design to production faster at zeplin.io.
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How can a self-audit help you move forward in your design career? Our guest today is Rajeev Subramanian, founder of Shift UX. You’ll learn about the three stages of doing a self-audit, why it’s important to lean into a specific niche, how this process can help inform your job search strategies, and more.
Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.
Show Notes
- Shift UX – Rajeev’s career advisory program for UX designers and researchers
- The UX Self-Evaluation Guidebook
- Episode 237: UX Writing vs. Content Design with Yuval Keshtcher
- Episode 178: Your Personal Design Style with Meg Lewis
- Branding Pays – a book by Karen Kang
- Reinventing You – a book by Dorie Clark
- Follow Rajeev on LinkedIn and Twitter
This episode is brought to you by Zeplin. Design tools can do almost anything, and with Zeplin they can go even further. Stop spending your time preparing design files for your developers and your PMs. Let Zeplin do it for you! Show user journeys, organize screens, highlight components automatically. See how you can go from design to production faster at zeplin.io.
Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.
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