Visualize your design skills & accelerate your career growth
- Wondering where you stand as a UX Designer?
- Wondering what your strengths and weaknesses are as a designer?
The story — the designer’s dilemma
Recently, someone from a WhatsApp group messaged me, asking what course or program he should take to further grow in his career. He said he wants to work for companies like Meta and Google. He was working for an MNC as a senior designer. He came to me with a couple of programs asking me to verify them.
My simple answer to him was, they do not guarantee jobs in companies like google and meta. He kept asking, “Please, please, help me and suggest something.
I didn’t really have an answer for him, and I could easily relate his story to mine. With total 20+years of IT experience and about 7 years of experience as a UX designer, I wonder what can I learn next to grow.
I once checked with my boss who is a great designer and founder of my company “How about doing an M.Ba. in Design” because I want to grow as a Designer leader. His simple answer was “you learn by doing”, for this you need to closely work with great designer leaders.
As a designer mentor, I am always on the hunt for resources that can help new and transitioning aspiring designers learn and grow, and how existing junior designers can gain more knowledge.
I always wondered if there was a tool that could assess my current skills and suggest what I should learn next. To my surprise, Pulse from Uxcel.com does exactly that.
Introducing Pulse from uxcel.com
Evaluate your understanding of key design concepts and get a personalized learning plan with Uxcel’s Design Pulse skill assessment.
What is Pulse?
Pulse reimagines design skill assessment with adaptive testing tailored to your role. Track your progress over time and get personalized learning recommendations based on your results. Unlock your career potential or empower your team with data-driven growth.
Uxcel Pulse, is a tool from uxcel.com that revolutionizes design skill assessment.
Launched on September 18, 2024 on producthunt.com with 75 upvotes as on September 21, 2024.
Key Features
Measure and grow your skills with Uxcel Pulse
Uxcel Pulse is your adaptive skill assessment tool, designed to evolve with your design journey. Get a clear picture of your strengths and areas for improvement in just 25 questions.
Adaptive testing by role and level
Choose your role to receive a tailored test that adapts to your needs. Your Uxcel Pulse assessment ensures you’re testing and learning the skills necessary to excel in your specific role and level of experience.
Get customized learning recommendations
After each Uxcel Pulse assessment, you’ll receive tailored course recommendations. This allows you to focus your efforts where they matter most, accelerating your career with efficiency and ease.
Build and maintain your reliability
Take the Uxcel Pulse regularly to enhance your reliability score. A higher reliability score more accurately validates your skills, ensuring your results truly reflect your knowledge and expertise.
Pulse helps you:
- Quickly gauge your design competencies with role-specific, adaptive assessment
- Visualize your strengths and areas for improvement
- Get personalized learning recommendations
- Build a holistic picture of your skill set from several smaller tests
- Track your progress over time
While it’s built primarily for designers, it also helps those of you in adjacent roles such as product management and marketing. Whether you’re looking to collaborate more effectively with designers or bring design thinking to your own work, Pulse gives you a roadmap to growth and development in an increasingly design-driven world.
For design team leaders, Pulse offers invaluable team-wide insights. Identify collective strengths and skill gaps, make data-driven decisions on training and assignments, and foster a culture of continuous design improvement across your organization.
How does it works
- Before you begin it will try to understand your current status and level, based on that it will generate the assessment for you
- Each assessment comes with 25 objective questions, within a time limit of 25 minutes. Their study says that it takes average 12 minutes to finish these assessments.
- The questions are picked from different skills such as product thinking, leadership, problem solving etc depending on your level.
- With each question there is an option ‘I do not know’, that you can use to inform them that you do not this topic.
Here is how questions look
The output/ result
It gives you the following types of outputs
- Assessment report
This shows your score, how are you performing on the platform as compared to others and the your expertise level.
- Skill Graph & Design score
It gives you a design score and displays your skills in a beautiful graphical format.
- Knowledge summary
This shows your strengths, what you’re good at, and the skill gaps you need to fill.
- Courses recommendations
It recommendations you courses available on the platform based on the skill gaps
- Answer sheet
The answers sheet shows the correct and incorrect answers
My attempts & results
I made 4 attempts and I scored 100% in Product Thinking and I am really proud to be good at product thinking. I am already in process of improving my visual design skills. I know I want to grow as a design leader, and I’m starting with a UX Design Leadership course soon.
Ready to level your UX Design skills?
Here the best and affordable online platform to learn ux/ui design
Interaction Design foundation
They are offering a 30% discount on your 22nd birthday, offer valid till 30th september, 2024). Alternative you can join their waiting list to get 25% off on annual membership and $200 discount on bootcamp
Uxcel.com
Uxcel.com is a comprehensive and user-friendly resource for learning UI/UX design.
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About me
I am a self taught developer turned UX designer working as a senior product designer with a small start up named fincent.com
My goal is to support and steer aspiring designers on their path to becoming a UX designer and secure their first job.
Happy Learning
Onwards and Upwards!
