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Pitching and Presenting With our product pitches coming up, Daniel decided to teach us about how to successfully pitch and present. We learnt about how to appear, and feel confident, as well as how to respect the next speaker… Continue Reading →
Making an Invoice Since conducting some research, and finding out how to make an invoice, I had a go at making my own using Adobe InDesign. I wanted to keep the styling of it consistent with both my brand and… Continue Reading →
Creating my Proposal Document After doing some reading, and looking through competitor analysis and possible proposal layouts, I finally created my own proposal document. I did this using Adobe InDesign as it allows you to create clean layouts using grid-lines…. Continue Reading →
Research About Invoices Daniel suggested that, along with our proposal document, we also create an example invoice. Before I do this, it’s important that I conduct some quick research to understand invoices, what to include in them, and how to… Continue Reading →
Idea Generation This week we were told about our new brief, which is making an investor pitch. We first did a Menti poll to give Daniel our thoughts about last week’s session. Daniel then explained that, for our product pitch,… Continue Reading →
Earning & Freelancing This week we went through the brief for making our proposal documents. We also learnt about the importance of a proposal document, and looked at what is included in a proposal document. If you’re freelancing, you will… Continue Reading →
Taking on Feedback After receiving some feedback from Daniel last week, I decided to get stuck into re-designing my CV and cover letter. As Daniel suggested, I did this using Adobe InDesign, and I found this to be extremely useful… Continue Reading →
A Project Guide To UX Design Chapter 3: Proposals for Consultants and Freelancers As part of our research for creating a proposal document, Daniel asked us to read this chapter from A Project Guide to UX Design. I am… Continue Reading →
CV and Cover Letter Critique This week, Daniel looked over the first drafts of our CVs and cover letters, then gave us some feedback. Daniel also quickly showed us, at the start, how he would lay out a CV… Continue Reading →
Interview Skills Today we learnt about interview skills. At the beginning of this class, Daniel put up a Menti link and we all typed suggestions of what we think we’d need to consider for the workplace. This exercise was… Continue Reading →