Story of UI/UX Designer — First Experience for Freelancer

Joseph Samuel
3 min readFeb 12, 2021

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In 2020 is my first experience as a Freelance UX/UI designer and this is luck for me about knowing strategy in UX/UI.

Even though it was just for 3 months, the most thrilling experience of this year so far was having my hands dirty on a real-life project.

My passion was over the top, but I soon knew it wasn’t like I had much practice. I built a kind of beginner kit to be prepared as soon as possible before day 1 to help me start properly. Believe me, you’ll never be ready enough! It may sound simple, but it did include.

  1. learning about company as much as possible

· Learning about the user experience.

· Check the company product.

· Read the case study about the company product.

· Customer review is a most important point.

2. Search company employees and ask them about the company environment.

3. Know about company competitor

4. Take a piece of more knowledge.

· Reading about the startup book and know UX related startup.

· Watching gaming video.

· Analyze gaming products.

When you mentally prepared not technically for it. Is very difficult for my perception and asked me to do the extra mile to understand the user. This is a wonderful experience for learning a new and interesting valuable lesson for learning.

  1. You will not 100% ready: — I would like to plan and make a list of the solutions in case arises sometime in the product. Everything that feels in control helps me focus on the present. You will have to go with the flow at some point and be alert for the unexpected.
  2. Jack of all trades: — first and second lessons are connected intrinsically. You can’t plan every resource when you need to learn and do a bit of everything. The skill becomes more valuable to the next candidate. I will believe junior designer and should cultivate this aspect.
  3. Target the help request: — When your job starts you will have to come to any doubts or questions in your mind. You will provide doubts in the priorities. If you have to start a start-up you realize more many questions you want to ask anybody. The company founder will not have time to answer all your question. But your colleagues should be able to answer your all question.
  4. Your own work: — The best difference between any large company and a startup when you work in a Startup Company you will realize your work but in a large company you will not have to realize it. In a large company, you have a buddy and manager you can reach it and startup, you only the one designer. You won’t be perfect the first time. Freelance UI/UX Designer is not about perfect is depends on perfection. You will not have to take the right approach you able to work explain you

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