If we believe design school graduates must enter industry with the best possible preparation, then we as the incumbent industry practitioners have an obligation to help them.

This is an essential priority because of the rapidly evolving nature of the design industry and the careers that design students will inherit and drive forward.

The seeds of their careers are nurtured in certain directions during high school, but as an industry, we have little control over the quality of people influencing this. What we can control however, is the quality of design-based information available and the experiences our future designers have access to as they discover their interests and aptitudes.

We’re going to unpack these ideas with Simon and Marissa in our upcoming live panel discussion.

The Details

• Where: To be confirmed.
  When: 6pm Tuesday 4 June PDT or 11am Wednesday 5 June AEST (or find out what time that is for you)

Meet Simon Pemberton

Simon’s combined experience in the successful creation, development and implementation of brand identities and cultures and his experience as the Head of School at four leading design schools brings together a unique blend of creative and management skills within a successful educational environment.

He has over 30 years experience in both the design and advertising industries Simon and has won Gold and Silver awards both here and in the UK.

Simon recently published “On The Shoulders Of Giants” – a book and video documentary featuring interviews with 13 of Australia’s leading designers.

Meet Marissa Mills

Marissa is a designer driven by human relationships, curiosity and the desire to solve problems. With an outgoing personality, Marissa thrives on the connections that are created with individuals on a deeper level and believes that the best aspect of a designer’s role has always been the ability we have to create solutions that are meaningful as well as functional.

As part of the Grenadi and Tractor teams for many years, Marissa worked in collaboration with extraordinary people to create educational programs that help students learn and develop through discovery, challenge and realising their own potential.

Marissa’s passion for seeing people connect is evident at Industryfish in the way they are striving to bring people together for collaboration and shared learning from across the design sector.

Some Questions to Inspire You

1. What is the current problem with how people learn design? What are the causes?
2. How does this affect people designing products or using a human-centred approach?
3. What is the potential we should be growing in design students? What is the best design graduate capable of?

How will the session work?

We will be live streaming the session on our YouTube channel. If you’d like to ask questions of the panel during the session, use the chat feature there. If you can’t make the live session but have questions, we’d love to collect them ahead of time and ask the panel on your behalf. You can ask them in the comments below. We’ll publish the responses (along with the full transcript) in the days following the session.

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We started our popular community forum and our series of Ask the UXperts sessions, published two more eBooks (Get Started in UX and A Practical Guide to Information Architecture), and published over 100 articles.

Here are the 10 articles that garnered the most interest from our readers, counted down in reverse, David Letterman-style.

All of us at UX Mastery thank you for your continued support and hope you have a fantastic end-of-2014 celebration! Here’s to a fabulous 2015. Enjoy!

10. Is There a Formula for Delight?

Ben Tollady and Ben Rowe, from Thirst Studios, gave us their take on the question: “Is there a formula for delight?”

9. Course Review: User Basics

This course by Lis Hubert, an holistic introduction to the foundations of user experience, comes pretty close to a perfect 10.

8. 7 Resources to get you Sketching like Da Vinci

In April and May we focussed on sketching, sketchoting and how these skills can make you a better UX Designer. Kim wrapped up this theme with a collection of resources to get you sketching like Da Vinci in no time.

7. Better User Research Through Surveys

We updated this popular article by Chris Gray with a whiteboard animation about how to build the kind of survey that will collect the most valuable information from our users.

6. 7 Signs This Person is Not Actually a UX Designer

One of our guest writers, Emil Lamprecht, created a list of 7 things you need to know—and that recruiters should be looking for—in a world of UX wannabes.

5. 10 Inspiring UX Portfolios

Hawk brought us 10 inspiring UX portfolios that we can learn from when building our own.

4. How to Create a Customer Journey Map

Megan Grocki brought us a whiteboard animation on how to create a Customer Journey Map, a visual interpretation from an individual’s perspective of their relationship with an organization, service, product or brand.

3. 20 Tips for Selling UX to Clients

We asked 20 UX professionals to share their tips on how to convince clients that a UX process is the best way to design (or redesign) a product or service. Here’s what they said …

2. How to Conduct a Content Audit

We updated Donna Spencer’s cracking article on conducting a content audit with this sketch video.

1. 10 Steps to a Perfect Portfolio

I talked us through how to create the perfect portfolio to present to a prospective employer.

What was your favourite article of 2014? Let us know in the comments.

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