 My goal in this live stream is to answer all your questions about a career in UIUX Design. I really hope you're as excited as I am to get started. Let me know in the chat if everything's OK, everything's going right. I did that about a year ago. I didn't have sound for the first two minutes. So I'm quite nervous about doing this, but let me have a look at some questions that's coming in. Everyone drop your questions as you come through and I hope, really hope I can help you out. Everyone, there was a message from Matt ydych chi'n gwaith o gael o'r gwaith o bwysig o'r llwysoedd ymddangos, a rwyf wedi'i arwag ychydig yn ychydig yng Nghymru. Mae'r ddweud ymateb yn ymddangos i'r cyflwyf yn wahanol. A dyna gwestiynau iddyn nhw a'n gwybod yw'r pwysig o'r gwaith. 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Rydyn ni'n wneud chyfl catalogiaid ar blaenol gwirionedd i ddweud ffwrdd a yna ai gilydd o lefитель ynghylch ac mae hi ffwrdd ymlaen cydiwyd o'r hyfforddiad yn cael ei fod ynghylch yn bwrdd. Yn y gweithio'r gweithio, mae ei phryg dda i'r gwell yn gwaith ac mae oedd, yna yng nghymru, mae rhai hwn ymddangos, ac mae'r gweithio allan yn y cwrs, ac mae'r gwerthu hynny, mae gennym ar y ddweud o'r pethau. Yr ymddangos yma eich wneud yma, mae gennym ar y gweld o'r holl. Dwi'n meddwl i'n meddwl eich gweld o'r holl hon o unidyddion. Ond yma, mae'n adrodd i'n gweithio i gynnig ei ddweud, ac mae'n ddweud yw ddweud, mae'n adrodd i'n gweithio i gyd ymddangos bod i'n amgylcheddol yma, mor hwn yn meddwl i gael ymweld. Mae'r ddweud am y producydd i'r ddweud, ond mae'n ffordd iawn i'r ddweud. Mae'r ddweud i'r ffordd iawn i'r ddweud. Mae'n ddweud i ddweud, cymdeithas. Mae ddweud i'r ddweud i'n ddweud, a mae'n ddweud i'r ddweud i ddweud. Ond mae'n mynd i chi'n gwybod, ac mae'n ddweud i ddweud i'r ddweud, a mae'n ystod yn dangos, what you did during a product, like making something, and I advise people who haven't got an experience to do example case studies, because that's perfectly fine. Not everyone's like, how do you get a junior role if you don't have a job already? So you need to make your case studies better than everyone else. And what a lot of people do online is you'll type in UX on YouTube and you'll see just Figma basically everywhere. So a lot of people are focusing on just designing websites and apps and Figma really is user interface design, which is a big part of UX, but there's a lot more that goes into it. There's like maybe 20 other things that UX designers do. And within each case study, my goal is to get you to knock off each one so your case study is better than everyone else's. And then that stands you above the rest. So you only need one job. You just need to be better than everyone else applying for it. And how I got my role, actually, I didn't actually get hired for my first role. I got it through something called work experience or internships in America. And so every company really would love people to come and work for me and internship is something I did for free. So I went down for free summers every year. I used to stay in a hostel in London with about eight people in my room overnight. It was hard work. And then I used to go to like the poshest street on London during the day and work for magazines. But I went to work for free for maybe like 12 weeks in total. But the first job I got was because I made connections when I was doing work experience. And I know not everyone can do that. But it's kind of like a cheap way into the industry. Because if you think about it, if you're willing to work for free for someone and you have skills, then as soon as a job comes available, you're going to be the first one to get it. And it's kind of like a way to get. I think to get it. I think the hardest role to get is as you need design role. And I think by doing kind of thinking about work experience or thinking about doing some work for free for a couple of weeks for people is a good way to get in the door. But what you need is a relevant qualification. Bootcamp, my course is perfectly fine. That gets you an interview. How you then get above in the interview is having an amazing case portfolio case studies. And you can skip all that by doing work experience and proving yourself on the job. So there's a lot of questions coming in. I'm just going to read through them. Bear with me. So, yeah, this is the Charles. I'm going to go through them. Yeah, UX is very hard manned, but there's also a lot of people who are interested in it. So it's fine to go in, but we're going to have to get you to stand out. So this is the Rob Wise, is work from home an opportunity. So course careers isn't actually my full time job. I work for a company called Cisco who they kind of make stuff that makes the internet work. It's quite complex to understand. But I've worked from home that my main job for Cisco for about five years. I used to go in the office maybe once a week, but I live in Wales, which is like a five hour commute from the office. And because as designers, we can do everything from home. I can interview people. I can do my design with people from around the world on Figma. It's all remote. And I've noticed, especially in the UK, a lot of people go remote. I've got friends who work for some of the world's biggest banks. They're remote. Maybe how it's working now is they go into the office once a week, maybe once every two weeks. That's how companies are doing. It's called hybrid. So work from home is definitely a possibility. It kind of is the standard now. I actually don't advise people to work from home fully all the time. It's actually quite nice to go into an office. Sometimes it gets a bit lonely being a home. That's just being honest after a while. It kind of wears off the novelty of it. I'm lucky because I've got two young kids at home and they keep me busy all day. But if they were in here, I think I'd get a bit lonely and I'd want to go to an office at least once a week. I wouldn't even mind driving a few hours just to go and have lunch with people. But work from home is definitely an opportunity. Hey, April Thomas, so your purchase, the tech sales course, but you wanted this one. I think on course careers, I think if you're not happy with the course, I think you might be able to swap that to a UX course. Tech sales is completely different than UX. So maybe send them an email and say you want to do the UX course and get swapped over. So this is the course. How many portfolio pieces would be best if you don't have real life experience? So what I say to everyone is, in your portfolio, you want three to five case studies and they're different websites or apps on each one. And you don't just want to design the websites or apps, you want to go through the entire process and do maybe 10 or 15 different little tasks in each one. You want between three and five example projects. Actually, in my course, what I've done is I've actually penned a last week. I've been reviewing case studies online, the best ones in the world. And I've noticed they all have a similar structure. So I spent hours and hours going in Figma and I've built a structure out a template that I give to you in the course for free. You download that and then you put your work into it. So your work looks amazing. You can actually see what I've done. If you type in my name, Anthony Comboy Behance on Google and go to my portfolio and have a look at the top left one, which is it's Farm Finder app. And you'll see how I've laid out the case study. And that's what yours is going to look like if you go through the course. So we do that one. And then there's one major project in the course, which is Farm Finder. And then there's four other projects where you use the skills you've learned from that to then do. So by the end of it, you'll have between three and five projects. And some of them are quite cool as well. We design a car dashboard. We do a mobile banking app and e-commerce website. I forgot the other one, but it's pretty fun. I tried to make them all as entertaining as possible. So this is to Satif Kumar, the top 25 interview questions and answers. They're actually on the course. I cover all the questions you're going to get asked. I can't remember them off the top of my head now, to be honest. As a designer, you don't really get asked them any questions. Really? It's a different type of interview. When you go for an interview, you talk about your project, really. You don't really get asked them any questions. You might get asked what your design process was, but then you kind of show your portfolio. So all the answers are basically in the portfolio. It's not like a traditional Q&A. Every interview I've ever been in is me showing my portfolio. Some of them have two people in the interview. The one I went to Cisco had about six people in the room, which was quite nerve-racking. But it's you showing your work. And there are some companies. So I had an interview. I had a terrible interview for a big bank in London once where they asked me to do kind of like a project. And it was like a trick project or something. And there was like eight people in the room slanting my work. So that wasn't good. But the rest, like I've been for over 10 interviews and they've all been just going through the case study. You might get one that's not so good. So hey, is it key to her? What's the minimum qualifications? So you don't actually need any qualifications to go into UIUX. The course is the qualification. What happened in UX? Because the basically where it's quite a new field, the way no university degrees are the graphic design university. The way no university degrees. And then these things called bootcamps came along. And they were essentially like 10 grand each, they're really, really expensive. They're basically online courses, really. And they last about six to 12 weeks. But they teach you relevant skills in UIUX design. And that's what companies liked. Like you're not going to do, I didn't do any personas or any wireframes in university. I did graphic design, which was like photography and illustration and stuff like that. But these courses taught you specific skills. And that's what basically companies wanted to hire. And that's what course creators has done. I've taken the best of the bootcamps. I made it basically the cheapest bootcamp in the bootcamp, the best most affordable online course in the world. But it's just as good as them. If anything, it's not better because I've been working with people who've been doing those courses. And they don't actually really teach you how to do a portfolio. They teach you the essentials. And they teach you the projects, but they leave the portfolio to the end. And I've kind of reversed that the portfolio is the most important thing. That's what you're going to basically get hired by. So in the first lesson, we literally set your portfolio up. And we set it nice. So that's that. So yeah, you don't need any qualifications. The course will be enough hopefully to get you an interview. And then you're your portfolio from there. So Amanda Gutierrez, I'm sorry, if I'm slaughtered with some of these names, the text is really small. Does the course give you access to the community? Yeah, the community, to be honest, is the best thing about it. So if anyone signs up, I'm going to be around for an hour after this call on the community. So when you sign up, and if you guys, you can get $50 off if you use my coupon. I'll just type it in now. It's a link. It's U R U X 50. And when you kind of go to the payment screen, there's a little link that says coupon. If you click that, and you put this coupon in, you'll get $50 off. So it goes to 450. But yeah, when you sign up, you get a dashboard, and you'll get the course. But on the left hand side, there's a tab called Communities. And that's the Discord community. So you can open it in the Discord app if you're used to it, or you can do it through the web browser. And there's even though the course is only two weeks old, there's probably at least 50 people in there at the moment. And it's actually quite a thriving community already. I'm always in there. I'm going to be around after this call answering questions. And if you're too embarrassed to put your question out on this forum, then just send it to me in Discord. If you sign up on it, I'll be around answering the questions. But yeah, what I do is my secret mission really is to give you all confidence. That's what I think. To be honest, that's what that's one of the best things that UX design has given me. Because in university, I really hated it at first. We had to present our work every week, and it was really nerve-wracking. And even on video, to be honest, now, this feels the same as me presenting to a room of 100 people. This really, I don't really feel any difference. But throughout the course, I get you to present your work, and I get you to share every single thing you've done with the Discord community. Because you need to get used to receiving feedback. It took me many, many, many years. I still don't really like receiving feedback now, especially negative feedback. But as a designer, because you're kind of the central hub for the, I guess, for the team, you get feedback from everyone around you. And because we do a visual field, everyone gives us feedback. So you kind of need a tough skin as a designer, and you need to accept all feedback and then choose the ones that are relevant and work off them. But I encourage people to share in the Discord all the work so you can start this process and get used to giving and receiving feedback, and then all being as one class. And we also encourage you all to get on LinkedIn and to maybe have at least things like 50 connections before you finish the course. So hopefully everyone will add, it might even be 500 connections, I'm not sure. But there's a LinkedIn section on the community and you all share your LinkedIn, all add each other, and then you'll all get boosted together and you'll start to have a really good network. So I hope that answers that one. Hi Kay, talking about design process. So yeah, oh sorry, product design. Product design is essentially UX design. It's just, it's a little bit broader. But in this course, this is all you need to go for product design roles. I think product design roles are a bit more advanced, they're for people a bit favour on your career. You don't really get many entry level product designs, because design roles, because they include things within the business, your design and services within the business. UX UI design is designing products. But then if you have some customer support in it or something, that's kind of service design and then product design. So that's where that goes. Let's have a look. Can this be done from the UK or is it just in the US? So I see Kay, I'm in the UK. There's lots of people around the world doing the course. Specifically, the only thing that you won't get in the UK is course careers has partner companies. So this is for everyone in the US. When you complete the course, there's an exam. Don't worry, it's not, it's not going to be too hard if you follow the course. And then when you complete the exam, you get a portal and that portal has partner companies. And then they're basically going to find the best students for course careers, be match of them, and they pay course careers to basically interview you. So a lot of students are actually going to get approached from jobs within course careers itself as long as you follow, do well in the exam and have a good portfolio. So you might not even need to apply for jobs. Some of you, you might get it through course careers. And that's one of the best things about the course from the UK. I don't think there's any UK companies at the moment, although some of them might have remote roles. But I certainly teach you how to go on LinkedIn and find roles wherever you are in the world. And I've definitely not had a problem finding roles in the UK. So I hope that helps. Let's have a look. How long, how long is the course careers, the class? So because it's self-paced, it's really up to you. I advise, I think it's probably going to take around 12 weeks. There's 24 hours of video content and there's five projects. But if you do four hours a day, then you can get it done in like six weeks. If you do one hour a day, it's going to take 16 weeks. That's the beauty of the course. It's self-paced and it's up to you. But this is some advice that I've actually got for everyone on this call. And this is something that allowed me to get a first class in university, which no one ever asked me, by the way, when I applied for jobs, I spent years getting there, no one ever cared. But how I managed to get that is and how I've managed to basically build, how I've managed to design this course really is. I have a schedule and I put an hour or two hours every morning in at work. So I've got two kids and a hectic job during the day. So I have to fit this course careers course and university around my life as well. So I got up at 5am every morning and I do two hours before the kids get up and then I go and make breakfast and then I might do an hour in the evening like this. But by having a schedule, sometimes I don't want to get up. Who wants to get up at 5am? But my alarm goes up. I go and make a coffee. That's a little prize for me getting up really. I have my coffee, I come in here, I sit down, I do two hours of work and I feel better at the end of it. And you'll be surprised at what you can actually achieve in a week by doing an hour every day. But you've got to have a schedule because I've noticed times in my life when I fall off the schedule then that's when things just go downhill. But I think for you to succeed on this course, give it 12 weeks, give it an hour, a couple of hours every day, follow it through, do your best and be regular with it. And I think then you will succeed. So I hope this is answering everyone's questions and having a nice time. Let's have a look. Connie A, can you do this as a side hustle? Well, you can do the course. You can fit it around your normal job. And then it depends whether you want a full time. So there's different types of roles you can get as a UX designer. There's permanent roles, which is where you work for a company. This is a good time to talk about the different types of roles actually. So permanent and that's the thing that normally has all the perks with it. Kind of like, you know, you might get paid for your health in America. You'll get insurance. You'll get in the UK, we have money put into our pensions and stuff like that. And that's normally when you work for one company and you don't get to work for anyone else. And that's normally around, I think I've done some research recently. It's $77,000 as the average, but no one really gets the average. It's on a scale between 60 and 90, really depending on where you are in the country and what companies you work for. That's permanent. Then I've done other types of roles. So you can do freelance or contract in the UK is where you go into a company on a contract basis. And that could be three months on the normally rolling contract. I know they have them in America. And you get paid an astronomical day rate. So in the UK, I was on probably over $700, $800 a day. It was £500 or whatever that is into dollars at the time. And that's normally like that's over 200K. And that's kind of doubled. And that's double what you would get as a payment. But the reason you get paid so well is I've had contracts cancelled on me the day before I've gone into work. I've had sometimes you don't get, and these contracts normally roll. So it says three months, but I was with companies for like two years. So the day before the contract is going to expire, they normally give you another three months. So it's a bit insecure for some to be honest, some of the longest jobs I had were contracting because the money's so good. And you weren't really tweeted any differently than an internal employee. But that's that one. And then there's also, you can do freelance work where local businesses, you could design, everyone needs websites, apps designed for them. Probably less so kind of local stuff with UX design, because we're not actually developed unless you wanted to get into development and actually develop these businesses, which you certainly could. But I think the main two types of roles are contracting and perm. And it's so well paying that it will eventually replace your full time job anyway. Let's have a look down. What are the cons about UI UX design and the differences? So really simply UX design is a bigger field than UI design. That's the end to end development of a product from conception all the way through to final delivery. UI design is user interface design, and that's where you're actually doing stuff in Figma and you're designing what you see on screen. So you can actually specialise in both. I've had jobs in both. I come from a graphic design background, so really I'm more leaning towards UI design, although I forced myself to learn the UX stuff. A lot of people come into UX from science backgrounds. And then in UX is probably a lot more research based. So we follow something called the UX design process that's got five steps in it. And the first one is kind of understanding research and you'll actually I like to think of UX design kind of like as like designed by science really. You have hypothesis, you're testing them and you're understanding who you're designing for. So if you're into that type of thing, if you're into interviewing people, creating surveys, I have to be honest, some of the funnest days I've ever had in work have been when we've been doing UX research. A lot of the big companies I work for, it's quite funny, you're going to, they'll have specific testing rooms set up when you work for a company and it's kind of like a police interrogation thing. So you'll have a big glass wall, you'll have three or four designers on one side and then you'll have the person coming in to be tested on the other side and they won't know that you're on the other side of the room. So they'll just think it'll be set up like a living room and they'll be a facilitator who will ask them questions and then you'll see them try and figure, try and use the app that you've done and sometimes it's really bad because there's like a big obvious button and the person doesn't know where to press and as a designer you're just shaking your head, you're like why is my design no good? But they're really, really fun because you get to, sometimes you get to meet the customers afterwards, you get to talk to them and you'll be surprised by how much you actually understand. I used to, throughout my life I've always rushed into stuff and this was always on my school reports, they were like are we rushes. So I would always rush to start designing in Figma. But as I've kind of got older, I'm enjoying the research stuff a lot more because you'll be surprised how you don't need to make such complex things. I used to do flashy stuff. Some of my first websites in university were embarrassing. They were like they had music on them. I had French rap on a jewellery website I did. But I used to always think I was getting judged by the design. But really when you do this research and you realise how simple people, things people need, they just get the people, when you give them a flashy website to use, they instantly hate it, they don't care if it looks good, they just want a usable product. And that's why some of Apple's stuff's the best, it's just simple. It's simple to use. So I really enjoy that part. And you can actually become UX researchers. That's a role that you could get after this course if you were interested in it. I've got friends who are like head of UX in Barclays and Research and they just, because some of these large companies have so many different websites, their entire job is just doing research all the time and you could go into that if you wanted to. Or you could then go into user interface design and just do design in Figma all day, every day, as much as you want if that's something you're into as well. And that's called UI designers. So I've definitely noticed that there's less UI design roles and they actually get paid slightly less than UX designers. I think companies value UX designers more because if you make a tiny change in UX, you can actually, like if I got a button and there was a green button and I made it like a darker colour green or something like that. That surprising difference has like a dramatic effect on the underlying revenue of the company. If I make it 1% better, then the company might make a few million. So that's why UX is so powerful because we're fundamentally, we're doing tests all the time and we're trying to improve stuff. It's designed by science really, you can't really fail. Sometimes I'm like, it's called AB tests and I've designed two versions of websites I've been guaranteed one was going to work and then it failed and the other one worked and you've got to figure out rack your brain why that happened. I do it on YouTube all the time and try and add different thumbnails. Sometimes one works, one doesn't. You don't know. That's the beauty of UX design, that's why it's so fun. I hope I answered that question. Let's have a little look. Everyone drop your comments in. I'll go down to some of the more recent ones because this list is very big. Let's have a look. Thank you. Hey, Lex, you like my B-hands. That's cool. Thank you very much. Hopefully yours can look like that soon. It's really not, it's not that hard to get your B-hands to look good. If you join the course, use the UI UX 50 code, get $50 off, then you can get the template that I've made. And honestly, your case study, for your first case study, is going to be one of the best in the world. Cos I basically looked at the ones which were the most appreciated on B-hands. When for a formula it went, okay, we need this, this, this, this and this and I made the design better and I put it in the template and you literally just pop your stuff in, export it, throw all the PNGs or the JPEGs into B-hands and you can make it look really good. Let's have a little look. It's the voice. Do you have to have artistic gifts to do the job, drawing and paint? Well, I certainly don't. You should, on the course, actually sketch your website and you should see how bad it is. My handwriting is terrible. Although I was a kid, I did kind of like painting. I wasn't any good though. No, you don't need artistic skills. And this is a, this brings me up to my philosophy really in life about things like, you know when people talk about how you naturally gifted at something or I'm no good at art. As I've learnt, as I've got older, you're basically the more time you put into something, the more naturally gifted you are and you'll always notice that the naturally gifted kids at stuff just do stuff more and they have more positive encouragement. So I found out this out in college. I got, I had a really, really good tutor who was very positive to me and he said, he said my work was amazing, my photography work and when I look back it was terrible. But because he told me it was good, I then wanted, I thought, oh, I'm at the top, I'm going to make it better than everyone else's. And then I thrive off positive reinforcement and that's kind of what I want to bring to you if you do this course. It's a very positive course. No one, there's no failing in UI UX design. There's only improving. I can still improve on lots of things and that's why we have the feedback. But no, you don't need, you don't need any creative skills because it's just practice, really. I guarantee the first designs you do in Figma for websites and apps won't be very good. But you'll share them and you'll get positive feedback and then you will improve them a bit more, improve them a bit more. And then 12 weeks later you'll look back on the first ones and be like, oh, that was a bit rubbish. This one's a lot better and you'll be able to see your progress because every day you'll improve one percent, you'll listen to the feedback. The design is very mathematical, really. People say it's subjective if things are a good design or a bad design, but I really believe in symmetry. So if you look at all the beautiful buildings, I love there's a thing called the Georgian architecture and it was a period, I don't know the period, like all the ancient Greek buildings as well. You know, there's like a symmetry to them. We've got like a door in the middle and two pillars on either side and then a header. Design to me, beauty is symmetry. So as long as you have and when I'm looking at your designs, I'm looking for symmetry really in them. And then when you start to learn what I'm looking for, this is what I learn when I was in Wired magazine. All the spacing needs to be exactly the same. Everything lined up, everything the same size. Once you get that consistency in your design, that's where juniors really, really fall down when I see people's designs. They'll show me something and there won't be symmetry and there won't be consistency in it. But when you start to learn those things, that's why we work in grids. It helps you. It comes from magazine design actually. It helps you lay things out in like even ways. And that's why you don't need artistic skills because you'll learn it over time. I hope some of the people from the course are on here. Say hi if you are. I dropped it in the disco before and I hope you're enjoying it. I've had a lot of nice comments so far. Let's scroll down to the bottom. Let's have a look. Are there any specific roles that the UI UX design companies are always looking to fill? So this course is a UI UX design course. And there's so many different words for it. It's actually quite annoying when people put new words. So you could be a product designer, you could be a UI designer, a UX designer, a UX researcher, a UX UI designer. I've heard some other names anything kind of like that. But yeah, there are always looking for people coming in kind of a just regular UX design level. Let's have a look, Rob Wise. What software do we use? So OK, this is quite a good question because a lot of people ask me for the cost. Do you need to pay for software or do you need a Mac or a PC? So first of all, you can use a PC or a Mac or a Chromebook. You can use whatever you have because actually you'll be surprised. I've got a friend who's a 3D designer and he needs the world's biggest computer, which is like 10 grand and he needs all these graphics cards to power what he's doing. But really as designers, we need the most basic things because we're not doing anything really powerful. So I use a Mac. I've used Macs for 20 years. I personally work on an iMac and I bought myself recently, treating myself to a Macbook M2A, which is Apple's little Macbook. They've actually released a 15 inch one now, which I'm kind of a bit annoyed about because I only bought one a couple of months ago and I probably would have got that. And that's not the most expensive Mac. I've got like a free grand Mac from work compared to one thousand pound one that I paid for and I prefer the little one. It's lighter. I don't need the power and the big one so you can use Mac or PC, whatever you want. That's fine. I prefer using Mac and all the software that we use in the course is free. We use Figma a lot. So. When you start researching your exercise online, you'll see free programmes mentioned Figma, Sketch and Adobe XD. Sketch is ninety nine dollars. It's a one off thing. And there's not many people using it anymore. I used to use it when I was in Barclays. So that left. I mean, there are still people using it, but everyone's having everyone's using Figma really now. There was Adobe XD, which was a bit competitive to Figma. But recently Adobe kind of just sacked it off and they bought Figma for something ridiculous like 20 billion dollars. So Figma is the one tool that everyone uses. There are new tools coming out. One's called Framer. That's like an AI website builder, which everyone's talking about on YouTube. I actually use it and it's not very good. I tried to make a website and it's like a basic template really. So I'm not into it. There's a programme called Web Flow, which allows you to do front end code, which is make a real website and you kind of do that visually. That's free as well. So what I teach in the course, I teach Figma and I teach Miro. Miro is another free programme and that's really, really good for doing a lot of UX tasks that we do like building site maps out. It's got lots of templates. Figma has two parts. It has Figma for doing UI designs and it has FIG Jam, which is kind of like it's this new thing that they made. But there's loads of templates in it for doing like UX tasks that you need in your portfolio, like personas, empathy maps, the called where you basically understand the persona a little bit more. It's got site maps. It's got wireframes built in. So to be honest, in the course, I leverage templates a lot and that's because I don't want you to make them from scratch because you don't need to. My job is to get you to get a job, really. So I use the templates that are in Figma. So it saves you. You can do it 10 times faster because really at the end of the day, the most important thing is the is the content and that's what you're going to be learning. But yeah, all the software is free. I even show you how to make videos. So if you go on my YouTube channel, I use a programme called Veed, V-E-E-D to do. I made the whole course in Veed. So you'll see my little picture in the bottom corner over a slideshow. I'll teach you how to do that in the course. That's all free software. So I hope that answers that question. Let's have a look. How much? So Arania A. Aina A. How much does the course cost please? And the payment plan. So let me just type in. So for everyone on this call, there's a voucher code UIUX50. So if you're interested in the course, then use that on the payment page. Yeah, so you have to sign up for the free course. But then when you complete this just if you don't want to do it, just click next, next, next. And then on the payment page, there's a little button which says apply coupon. So if you click that, it's right at the top in text. Type in UIUX50. You'll get $50 off. So that's $450. Or there's a payment plan, which is I think it's $150. And I think. Oh, maybe it's $199 and there's free payments. So yeah, it's $199. So you save it $101 by doing it in one go. And you actually save $151 if you use my voucher code there. And remember, I don't want anyone's money if you don't like the course. So there's actually 14 day money back guarantee. So we want. So my personal goal, really, I'm going to reinvest a lot of the money I make back into the course and back into making content. I want it to be the best, best possible. So I don't want unhappy students. I'm going to be updating it all the time. So if you're not happy with it, just give course queries an email. And they said for any reason you don't even need to give them reasons that you don't like the course. They'll give you your money back. I think if you start another courses, you can actually swap as well. If you'd rather do the UIUX course, that's fine. So they're the options for the course. So, you know what? Even if you just want to sign up, get your $50 off, try for 14 days. You can do half the course. If you don't like it, sack it off. That's fine. But I'm trying to make it as good as possible for you. So, hi, Mary. Does this career have a good work-life balance? Yes. So to be honest, that's kind of the best thing about the career. I was talking about before. And it's only really recently. So I used to work in London. I used to work every day in my early career. I put in so many, I was always the first one. I've kind of got this obsessive personality where I'm like, if I'm going to do something, I'm going to do the best. So I was the first one in last to leave magazine design. Every four weeks you've got a new issue out. And it was a grind. Because when you'd finish one, then you'd go back and you'd only have four weeks to do the next one. So then I moved over into UIUX design. And because you haven't got an issue to do every four weeks, I was like blowing away by how much free time I had. What we do in a year is what we did in a month in a magazine. So the workload was dramatically down. Although you do a lot of work, but there's not the pressure that I had when I first started my career in magazines. So now most people do hybrid, which is one or two days in the office to rest from home. It depends on you. I think that's a great way to go because you get to make friends, meet with colleagues. I live in Wales now. So I'm in my shed. I've got my Beatles pictures on the wall. That's my desk. I've got my life there for YouTube. I've got a stand in this here. I've got some fitness stuff. So my work-life balance basically is I have a meeting for my day job. I'm a UI, UX designer physicist ago. I have a meeting in the morning, which is a daily stand-up. And that's most companies have this. It's called agile software development. So when you get your job you have a team and you don't work with other designers really. You might work with one or two, but you'll work on a project team and you'll design a piece of software. And there'll be project managers on the team. There'll be developers. There'll be a person called the Scrum Master who essentially like get stuff done for you. If there's any problems on the project and then you'll have bosses. So you all get together every morning. You meet. You have a chat. What you did yesterday, what you did today. And then you kind of get left alone. And I might have a couple of other calls during the day. I'm pretty much free to arrange my day however I want. I work around like nine to five, 30. I have kids who go to the school. I go and pick them up. I take long lunches sometimes. I just started a bit earlier. The work-life balance is perfect. Especially being a parent now. I couldn't do the hours. I did when I was in magazines. I wouldn't get to see my kids. I remember a work of someone who said he didn't see his daughter in daylight for like a month. So I couldn't go back to that. And then let me just mention this as well for everyone who's here. Work-life balance really depends on the company that you go for. Luckily I've been working professionally for about 15 years. I've worked in different companies and even though you're a UX designer in the companies, the work-life balance is kind of dramatically different in each one. These are the types of companies that you can work in. The first one is a big tech company. I work for Cisco and they actually got voted the best company to work for in the UK. The best large tech company. That's why the work-life balance is so good. A lot of companies are trying to have good work-life balance. Now, I've definitely seen a big shift in the last 10 years. It used to be a workaholic culture. Now it's kind of changed especially since the pandemic to treating people good. So that's really good. So if you work for a big company that's what's it called, the S&P 500. I think a well-known company you're going to have hopefully a good work-life balance. Then the other two types of companies you can work for. One is a start-up. So that is a company which is very early stages. Kind of like you know on Facebook, first came out and everyone made all the money. So that's basically a company that you don't know whether it's going to succeed or fail. And you take a big risk going to the work for that company. You'll most likely be working with the founder. You'll be one of the early stage people. You might be one in a team of 10. You'll do about five different roles. You might be a developer. You might be your ex-designer. They'll pay decent ways. They might pay a bit more than a big company to get you in. So say a big company gives you 60. They might give you 70. But you will do five times the amount of work there. They will... It's not as secure going forward. Like 90% of start-ups fail. The 10% do succeed or get the media coverage because sometimes as a pick to go into a start-up they'll give you equity in the company. So they might give you like 0.1 of a percent or something like that. But if it's Facebook and it goes to the biggest company in the world you'll get a lot. Like there's a guy called David Chow in America who actually did the graffiti. I was watching him on Joe Rogan and he did the graffiti for the Facebook offices. And he got paid in stock options and now he's like one of the richest artists in the world. So, yeah, it's all or bust and you'll be working really hard and you might be working in the founder's house. The office might not be as good as the big ones because it's an early-stage company. And then the other company is an agency. So I've worked for a couple of agencies and that's basically it's like a company, it's like a design company. And as a designer if you wanted to you could actually start your own agency at the end of the day. Not many designers go to CEO-leveling companies. They normally leave and start their own creative agencies but you take on jobs really. So you might have Coca-Cola as a client and you might make them a website. You might do some UX for Nike or something like that. So that's a creative agency and be aware when you're applying for jobs what type of company it is. So with agencies you'll be a UX designer but you'll be working on maybe two or three projects at once. So I found when I worked for an agency I almost had two jobs so I had a job for the agency and then I also had a job for the client and then because the agency made the money in the middle I had my day rate the client paid this they made the squeeze in the middle they really worked as hard to make us work as long hours as much work as possible. I remember I was in I was in work to like midnight on a Saturday once and I was thinking I literally moved about a minute away from the office because I knew it was going to be hard work my wife was there and she was like I never see you anymore and I was like living a minute away but if you do a year of agency work you'll have an amazing portfolio like the work you'll do will be amazing and you will grow as a designer as much as possible so I always advise people who talk to me about agencies if you're young in your early 20s and you're going into a career it's fine to work for a startup it's fine to work for an agency you'll probably do your best most creative work in big companies like saying what I did in an agency in a month I might do in a year in a big company you will get work out quicker you will have a better portfolio but your work life balance will be not as good so yeah luck out for them it's great work life balance if you work in a big tech company and you choose the right one and remember you can always leave if it's not the right place to interview them as well as them to you okay I hope that answered your question let's have a little look see what other ones oh thanks for siding up Ellie Ashford everyone else URUX 50 that's going to give you $50 off let's have a little look Grey Studios hi you're a photographer from Ghana looking to transition into URUX welcome you're having a bit of a challenge staying accountable what advice can you give me to Stirling? and achieve your goal so really quickly I mentioned this before the best way to stay accountable is to have a daily schedule and you have to follow that schedule every day I get up at 5am I have my alarm set there's no snooze button on it I get up give yourself a treat in the morning if you like coffee if you like toast with jam I don't know I'm an early bird to be honest I've always found the most successful people in the world at early birds I don't know why but for you if it's nine o'clock at night set it in your calendar set a schedule and follow through with the schedule and make yourself accountable that way and if you don't turn up then it's on you a career is the most important thing in your life your career it determines how much money you make it determines how happy your family are it determines where you live it determines what you wear what you can buy your mental state so if you're not willing to do an hour a day which is all you need then it's really on you so set a schedule be accountable and turn up for yourself because no one's going to give you a job you've got to do it yourself and that's why everyone on this course is going to be successful because you can learn your ex-design off anyone else you can go on YouTube and watch some figma stuff but that's the easy part the actual hard part is following through and by sign-off for a course you commit so you put money down and that makes you need to do it because otherwise you're wasting money like $450 is not a little bit of money it's quite a lot so you need to commit set a schedule turn up for yourself and treat it like you would at university which you're paying $100,000 for like I've had friends who paid 100 grand for university didn't do anything with the degree wasted it away by drinking because they didn't have a schedule so the only reason I got a first class is because I did two hours a day and I did it every day turned up, I even did weekends and then I was able to relax for the rest of the day so that's my thing as you say commit you're doing it for yourself I'm not going to give you a job anyone who promises to give you a job is lying because you need to do it yourself and you can do I give you the framework to do it follow through and get it done and let me know when you get your job and let's have a look hey Victor how does finishing the course translate into land in your first gig yeah I mentioned this before so course careers there's an exam at the end it's fine you get two goals for free I think and then it's $50 if you want to keep doing it so you can actually keep improving your score all the stuff is in the course and you should be able to ace it at the end of the day so you do your exam you get a portal within the portal you will be ranked by your exam score you have a link to your portfolio lots of course careers have loads of partner companies in the US this list is growing over time they're coming in they're ordering you by score they're looking at your portfolio they're choosing the best ones and they're paying course careers to interview you so that means they're very very serious and they're not going to pay to interview 10 people they're going to pay to interview one or two so if you get asked for an interview you've got a very very good chance of getting a job so course careers is expanding this all the time because companies go to course careers because let me just tell you the pricing like how it normally works if you're course careers charges people to interview you and it's a few hundred dollars per interview or something like that but I've got friends who are recruiters and when you get placed so in the UK it is headhunters and recruiters and they hang around the LinkedIn and they place you into a job and you get a £20,000 job by a recruiter and most companies use recruiters at the moment recruiters charge 10% of your salary maybe more maybe 20% for the first year as a fee for placing you in that job so if your job is 60 grand then that's 6 to 12,000 that they pay whereas if you go on course careers they pay a few hundred dollars and that's it and then they can land you so you can see it's like 10 times cheaper for the employer so all the employers are flocking to course careers so that's how you're going to get your job by doing your exam putting your best into it and just following along with the case studies, using my template having amazing case studies do all five projects, spend a couple of hours a day for 12 to 16 weeks and hopefully you'll be at the top of that list because remember this course is only two weeks old so all of you guys who have joined this you'll be the first on that list let's have a look Ravie, will there be any reader materials so what I've actually done on the courses and I've had comments on this saying this is people's most they enjoy it the most there's 10 sections at the end of every 10 sections instead of reader material I've actually posted TED Talks and these are my favourite TED Talks and the point of them is to expand your knowledge as a designer and some of them are about just like the design of everyday things or why I love graphic design and you'll actually be introduced to some of the biggest people biggest players in UI UX design and all the design fields are related really and they're only about 10 to 15 minutes long but they're fun so you will and they're free as well you don't need to pay for them so at the end of every section you watch the video and then there's a little task on it so I ask you to implement it into your life so you might learn about design and then go and design something in real life and it's made really expanding your horizons because I love design more than my UI UX designers here but I want to expand it to around I think I ask me for some books if you want to learn some books but the reason I don't recommend them is because you've got to pay for them I want everything to be free and accessible to the course and I don't really read books I either listen to audio books or I watch videos or I am so I hope that helps Grace Studios, do you have a Discord channel? Yeah, it's in the course it's one of the best things about it so if you sign up, it's on the left hand side community, I'll be around probably for the next hour for anyone who's signed up and you want to ask me any personal questions so let's have a look so we've got here Loota King I hope I said that right most of your UI UX descriptions require you to have CSS, JavaScript this is where the company is not knowing what they are talking about so yeah, you will see on job descriptions it will say an understanding of a CSS, HTML and JavaScript in the course, just to tick this off I've got like a 20 minute video where I explain what HTML, CSS and JavaScript are so when you apply for the job you can put in your resume that you have an understanding of them they are an entirely different job there for developers and as a UI UX designer your job basically ends when you hand over stuff to developers to go on so you need a rudimentary understanding of it and the 20 minute lesson will be more than that HTML is basically, HTML and CSS is what the internet is made of HTML is like the code for the website all the numbers, all the information like the text that goes into the website CSS is the styling of that website so you have a HTML document and if you swap the CSS document the website will look dramatically different so you can change the styling quite quickly and then JavaScript is all the interactive elements that go into a website so the super technical stuff that's JavaScript, you don't need to know that you just need to know what it is essentially and I hope that helps but yeah, in your in your resume mention that you understand that because you will can someone in a customer, this is from David Simpson can someone with a customer service an IT background, transfer relatively well yeah, you'll be fine because UX is so new I've seen lots of people coming from different backgrounds I came from graphic design people come from science backgrounds like biology backgrounds one of the people who's a UX designer who works with course careers I think she did a bootcamp and she came from a science background so if you've got a background in IT then that's perfectly fine you don't need anything to do the course you will learn all as you go but it's good that you mention customer services because it means that you like putting your feet in other people's shoes and you understand what customers want and UX design really very very simply is a design in what people want it's actually very basic you ask them what you want them to do they tell you, you make it don't do anything flashy, they're happy you're happy, the company makes loads of money it's complex makes it a bit more complex but that's essentially what it is Lam, Rodri, are you able to switch course? I believe so just send course careers an email and say you want to join the awesome UX course and I'm sure they'll be able to do it for you so I hope that works for everyone who hasn't heard if you use my code UI UX 50 you'll get 50 dollars off so it's such a view of the money and remember there's 14 days free so you can you can get a refund if you don't like it we don't want your money if you're not happy let's have a look at Barbie what I recommend doing the SDR course and get an SDR role, we'll spend them a year to be honest I don't really know about the SDR course or role I'm just UI UX, they're different roles really it's up to you one is a sales role and that's entirely different it depends on your personality really if you're into sales and that's your thing, UI UX design is a super creative fun field where we get to design stuff if you like making stuff really if you're a person I get really frustrated if I don't create stuff that's why I'm always creating videos or creating websites or designs I feel like I get a lot of my frustrations by creating stuff if that's you then this is the one you want to go down whereas if you don't feel like that for you if you're just more interested in selling stuff but we create the stuff that people sell both of them are fine, different personalities really in the different roles so let's have a look what about someone with self-taught knowledge but tech expertise which most companies require you to have, what do we do I think the reason self-taught is hard is because you basically need an interview and to get an interview you need a course you need a degree degree, book camp, course course is the cheapest and just as good as the other ones if you say yourself taught it shows you're not really serious there's the other ones I guess because there's going to be 10 people applying and if two of them have a degree then they will just be automatically above you you might be better than the other people it's just the way the world works but you need the course or the book camp to get the interview and then you can you can show off your portfolio but with this course you're going to get a certificate and that certificate is kind of like your proof and the certificate is actually quite hard to get because you might get 100% of course careers and only 10 of them might get the certificate because first of all to go through a 16 week course you've got to be committed you've got to do that one or two hours a day you've got to pass the exam and then you've got to have an awesome portfolio and for those people who go above and beyond you're going to be the top of that list when people come to hiring so yeah so let's have a little look Davon Huggins yeah you can switch for free within 14 days of purchasing so I hope that helps Miss Nicky Antoinette you're just turning in so what I'm going to do is I've got five minutes left so get your questions in now I hope this has been helpful to everyone if you've got any additional questions I might make a follow-up video I might do these more regularly I don't know it depends whether anyone likes it being here let me know what you thought it's hard just talking to a camera not knowing if anyone's enjoying themselves but I'm going to send the recording of this out when I end this I think YouTube gives me a recording that I'm going to send the link out I'll send it to the people in course careers and they will send an email out so you can re-watch everything and I've hopefully answered as many questions as I can I'll answer a few more now but there will be recording after this or just reach out to course careers and they will send you up but I'll get them to send you an email thank you very much for everyone saying they've enjoyed it Coco Bay is it oversaturated it's quite funny that's the first thing I talked about and I'll probably finish on it if everyone doesn't mind so loads and loads of people are worried about it being oversaturated but there's lots of questions I'll have a look at them in a sec when I went into UIOX design it was oversaturated too it's just a really popular field and my advice to you is you only need one job that's it, you don't need 10 jobs oversaturation would worry me if I needed to get 100 jobs or a job every day and it doesn't matter whether there's 10 or 20 people applying what I'm going to teach you or I'm going to get you to do for yourself because you're going to do it yourself you're going to be better than everyone else so it doesn't matter whether you're one of 10 or one of 20 this course is not easy there's no let me put it this way it's not a cheap way to get a job you're going to have to do hard work it's a structured course and you're going to have to put in 100 hours of work and you're going to have to follow it without the course it would take you thousands of hours because it's everything in one place but my goal is to get you a job as soon as possible and that's to your job is to get a certificate my job is to get you a portfolio with three to five unbelievable case studies that are world class and well above junior level and your portfolio is going to be well better than mine when I got my first job so that's my job to get you to that point and then it doesn't matter if it's oversaturated or not there are jobs all the time for the right people and then a little tip that I was saying when I first got my job I snuck in the back door so if you don't even want to apply to them do something called an internship it's where you basically go and work for free for a company it's not an apprenticeship really you might do a couple of weeks learn the trade but if you go in there and I was saying I stayed in a hostel it wasn't glamorous I was having probably KFC every night but I went and I tried my best and I got my first job doing that so I didn't apply for my first job and then after the first one it's easy because you've got the experience so on LinkedIn you can actually search for internships and actually one thing I want you to all be mindful of is no one's going to give you a job you need to put yourself out there and go and get it so you might have a favourite YouTuber you might have a company you want to work for phone them up and ask them if you can go and intern there like you need to apply the sale stuff to your own career your mission is to get that first job like if I was one of you and I was applying for the job I would I would try and get in the back door I would do the course, get my certificate I would have an awesome portfolio and then I would while waiting for people to contact me from the course careers I would be phoning people up and saying can I come and work for you and you don't need to go to London and live in a hostel or go to New York so you can probably work experience from home but that's if obviously you've got the time to do it and maybe one or two hours helping someone a day might need to a job there's no promises in this field but I guess you are responsible for your own career and if you put the work in I have a portfolio that's better than everyone else then I think you can do it right time is up it's six o'clock in the UK I hope you've all enjoyed this I'm going to send it out afterwards if you want to sign up UI, UX $50 I'm probably going to be around for the next hour on the Discord answering anyone's personal questions if you want to message me and then the class takes between six weeks and 16 weeks it's a self-paced course 24 hours of content five projects you'll have a portfolio with five amazing case studies in it you can get a refund for 14 days if you don't like it I'm sure you will my job is to get you a job and I hope you've enjoyed it if you want to watch the replay it's going to be on my YouTube and it's also going to be sent out by course creators thank you everyone very much it's been really nice meeting everyone sorry if I didn't get around to your questions I just couldn't read them all but thank you very much and hopefully I'll see you on the course UI, UX $50 have a nice day