Its been a trend these days to give design assignments prior to hiring design applicants, even though the design applicant is providing a portfolio list of past works that is enough to judge his/her thinking process. Most of the times such assignments are misused
to collect ideas for the project in action. We call it Fakethons. A Design homework that obviously have no scope for actual User Research and Usability Testing until hired based on one's opinion is not justifiable. Designers and UX are not idea generation machines.
Idea Generation is a Team Work achieved by Design Thinking, Stakeholder Discussions, User Interviews and many other such exercises. Designers, Design Coaches, Design Mentors, UX Strategist are mere facilitators in such exercises. Over the last decade the field
of designing has institutionalized. They follow systematic Data Driven methodologies. Such practices and expectation from UX and Designers is harming the collective fidelity of the eco-system of recruitment, hiring, product development, corporate and startup.
This knowledge must be an integral part of Design Education. This forum is an initiative to discuss such experiences. Join facebook.com/groups/intervi… to keep informed about such practices. #UXjobs #jobs #UX #Usability #uxresearch #uxinterview #UXassignment
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