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New year, new things

The first month of 2018 is almost over, and because I wrote in my 2017 year review that I’ll try to challenge myself to write more this year, I thought that writing a monthly retrospective would be a good start. I have to admit I took the idea from Daniel Korpai .

So here it is, the first one…

January, being the first month of the year, is somehow a struggle for me. After some days off for the winter holidays, it’s not that easy to start working again with all the pressure of a new year is ahead. I have to admit that I really wanted this month to be over; it was a long, long one.

Work, mentoring & Design Snippet

Effective Experiments website

In January I focused mainly on one project, Effective Experiments. We are launching our new website in the next period, and we are working hardly on redesigning our app. On the app side, there are still a lot to work on, but hopefully with the latest adjustments things will work out much better.

Doky’s email app

Beside Effective Experiments, I continued my work on Doky’s mobile apps, with redesigning a mail and a chat app. Reusing some of the already created designs for desktop, this went pretty fast. I still need to finish some states and pages, but those shouldn’t be a big problem.

ClicRecours — homepage

Another thing worth mentioning is that I finished my work on ClicRecours for now, and they were very pleased with our collaboration.

Recently I managed to score my first mentoring session on RookieUp and now I work closely with Sebastian, helping him to revamp his portfolio with some great new projects. Also, I continue to do mentoring session on DesignLab and I’m trying to help out some other junior designers that contacted me in the past year.

This month I also started to test and use fizzl.io. If you are looking for a way to get user feedback on your designs, especially if you don’t want to annoy them to sign up to various platforms then I highly recommend it. Oh, and thanks for the letter, Zander :).

My portfolio

One thing that was postponed for a couple of months now is my portfolio. But this month, I managed to send it out to development, so hopefully that will be up and running in the following weeks.

Another surprising fact was that this month I got accepted on workingnotworking.com. I applied there some time ago, so it’s nice to know that in the end I managed to get in.

Going through projects and talking with mentees it struck me that I forgot some of the stuff I learned a while ago, so I revisited some of the lessons from User Experience (UX): The Ultimate Guide to Usability and UX by David Travis. If you are searching for a great course on UX, I highly recommend this one.

Design Snippet

On the Design Snippet side, I sent out three newsletters this month. There is still a lot to work on, so if anybody has any good advice / idea on that one, it’s more than welcomed, you can contact me anytime.

Great articles from January

These are some great articles I came in contact this month, while curating for Design Snippet:

Top design inspiration from January

Planguru — Free mobile UI kit by Patryk Pustół for Netguru Snug — Messages by Filip Justić for Balkan Brothers Calendar client by Luke Pachytel for Netguru Dashboard for sprint design teams by Christian Vizcarra

…and in the end, watch this video:

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Don’t forget to check back in a month 🙂

So, this is it for now. Thanks for checking in. Hope that you found something interesting and inspiring. Don’t forget, any kind of feedback is highly appreciated … so, yeah, share, clap, comment or whatever you find appropriate.

If you want to connect, you can find me on Dribbble, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Also, if you are looking for an UI/UX — Product designer for your awesome project, don’t hesitate to contact me. 🙂

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