UX Career Development Workshop with Steven Ma from Google
Sep 28 @ 09:30 - 17:00 JST
Background
- This is a full day UX career workshop held by Steven Ma, a Staff UX Designer at Google's Mountain View office, who is visiting Japan.
- Steven has 24 years of experience in UX design, mainly in Silicon Valley and Washington state. He has also taught at General Assembly as an instructor on their UX Design Immersive course.
Top 3 things (but likely a lot more) you'll gain from attending this class
1. Actionable techniques you can use to launch your career growth path to a new trajectory
2. Improvement recommendations you can leverage to improve your resume, case studies, and interviews to significantly increase your competitiveness in a tough job market
3. Advices on how you can accelerate your career promotion path and timeline.
Overview
Designed with junior and senior designers (those with 9 years of experience or less), this is an interactive workshop where you will learn strategic insights and actions that will accelerate your UX career growth, and transform your career development trajectory for your UX career.
Agenda
Welcome (~0.5 hour)
- Introduction, logistic, and objectives for the day
Thrive in the business world of UX design (~0.5 hour)
- Level-set on the value of UX design and what it is really about
- Aligning the value between business and the UX discipline
Become your team’s UX superstar (~2 hours)
- Introduction of the UX superstar framework
- The foundational core skills of great UX designers
- Building your brand as a designer - Know who you are and reinforce it
- Effective collaboration with Product Managers and Developers
- Presenting to difficult Executives or clients
- Secrets to getting noticed and promoted
Lunch (1 hour)
- Lunch break
Career at a fork - Be a UX manager, or not? (~0.5 hour)
- Career progression for individual contributors
- Should I become a UX manager? What do managers do?
- Freelancing, Consulting, and other options
2025 UX outlook (~0.5 hours)
- The state of UX job market in 2024
- UX opportunity worldwide - what salary to expect at different locations?
- Hiring trends - what employers are increasingly focusing on
- Will AI take my job? LLM & GEN AI’s impact on UX - how to take advantage of the trend and thrive
Break (~0.25 hour)
Landing your UX dream job (~1.75 hours)
- Insider tips on acing your next job application |(1 hour)
- Ingredients of an effective resume / case study
- Perfecting your UX portfolio and case studies
- Winning your next job interviews
Q&As (0.5 hour)
- Group Q&As
- Wrapping up the day
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About the instructor
Steven Ma (linkedin | resume)
Currently a Staff UX Design Lead at Google (California, USA), Steven has over 20 years of industry experience leading enterprise-scale UX projects and building great UX teams at Google, Pure, Amazon, and IBM.
Steven helped Pure created its UX discipline and built its UX team from zero to one, including the hiring of the entire UX team. In 2021, Steven led the charge in winning the prestigious A'Design award for Pure1's cloud tooling. At Google, Steven is the design lead for 2 key strategic Ads pillars, and has interviewed over `100s of designers to help Google Ads grow its UX organization.
Fueled by his love for teaching, Steven has been teaching UX for 9 years across multiple countries that include the San Francisco bay area, Toronto, Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
Steven is the owner of 8 invention patents, author of multiple publications, and has earned certificates in both the IBM Leadership Excellence (IBMLE) Program and Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP).
In his spare time he enjoys discovering craft beer, watching football, and gobbling up blogs and tweets from those he follows.
Organizer
Tokyo UX Meetup | 東京UXミートアップ