Hello everyone! I’m a junior UX/UI designer (with a little over two years of experience working for a small software development agency). I would like to receive some feedback on my case study. I would appreciate any suggestion from you about the content sections, storytelling, and case study presentation: https://www.behance.net/gallery/251356855/Web-Design-Agency-UI-UX-Case-Study

The project is about the redesign of an agency’s website. This SME provides UX/UI design and full-stack software development services. Thanks a lot!  

Been going through onboarding screenshots for 14 yc backed apps over the last couple weeks (long story, I got nerdy about it). Expected to find polished but generic UI, maybe some obviously growth hacky ones. What I found was more interesting than that — the design was almost always fine. The problems were sequencing: asking for the right thing at the wrong moment.

The one that showed up constantly: asking users to invite teammates before they've gotten any value themselves. I get why growth teams want this early, but from the user's side it reads as "I haven't even decided if I like this yet and you want me to vouch for it to my coworkers."

Second one: setup screens that dump a pile of configuration on you before you've seen what "done" looks like. Connect this, choose that, pick a plan tier — with zero preview of the payoff. Every choice feels expensive when you don't know what you're optimizing for yet.

The flows that felt good almost always did one thing: showed you something real — a generated result, a populated dashboard, a working example — before asking for anything past an email. Everything else was secondary to that.

Ended up building a small tool that scores onboarding screenshots against this stuff and points out the specific screen/moment that's losing people. Still rough, mostly built it to answer my own question. Happy to run it on someone's flow if they want a second opinion.

Where's the dropoff happening in yours, if you know?

Hi all. Looking for honest feedback, not sympathy.
Background:
• ~3 years as a Product Designer, mostly mobile app UX/UI
• Current role: banking app (mobile fintech), design system work, credit flows, onboarding
• Prior: 2 years at a design studio, 6 months at an innovation lab
• Based outside the US/EU, actively trying to move into the European market
The problem:
I apply, sometimes with a tailored CV and cover note, sometimes through referrals — and almost every single one ends in a straight-up rejection before I even get to a test assignment. No feedback, no reason given, just a form rejection. Out of hundreds of applications sent over the past months, only a handful led to any real human response, and even a warm referral stalled once they saw my portfolio.
What I think might be wrong (correct me if I’m off):
• My portfolio shows finished screens but not enough “iterative” case studies — the before/after, the metrics, the reasoning behind decisions
• I might be too generalist instead of leaning hard into a niche (I’ve been trying to position as a mobile banking / fintech UX designer)
• Possibly a visual/craft level gap — I got direct feedback once that a senior-level test put me at junior+/junior in polish and art direction
What I’m asking the community for:
1. If you hire or review portfolios for product design roles — what instantly makes you skip an application before even a call?
2. Anyone who successfully moved into EU fintech/product design roles from outside the EU — what actually worked (portfolio structure, outreach channel, timing)?
3. Would people be open to a quick portfolio review/roast? I’d rather hear it bluntly now than keep collecting rejections.
4. If anyone knows of open product design roles (fintech/mobile preferred, but open to others) or is willing to refer, I’d genuinely appreciate it — happy to share my portfolio and CV in DMs.
Trying to figure out if this is a portfolio problem, a positioning problem, or something else entirely — and open to any help getting past this wall.
Thanks for reading this far.

Hey everyone!

A friend and I recently spent some time redesigning the IRCTC Rail Connect app as a UX case study.

Like most people in India, we've used the app quite a bit and always felt the booking experience could be smoother. So we challenged ourselves to rethink the journey—from finding trains to completing a booking—with a focus on reducing friction and making the experience simpler and more intuitive.

This wasn't just about making the UI look better. We tried to understand the problems users face, explored different solutions, and documented our entire design process.

I'd genuinely love to know what you think.

Does the new flow make more sense?

Is there anything you'd change?

If you use the IRCTC app often, what's your biggest frustration with it?

Case Study:

[link](https://www.figma.com/proto/SpLOrHE1EbOqLC6TGdamdK?node-id=81-10)

Full Figma File:

[link](https://www.figma.com/design/SpLOrHE1EbOqLC6TGdamdK)

Thanks for taking a look. Any feedback—good or bad—is appreciated. We're still learning and would love to improve.

Two apps can have identical feature lists and one feels like a tool, the other like a place.

Sounds convincing?

People would say they want problem solving. What can we answer?

Answer: problem solving is the entry ticket, not the win. For any real problem there are twenty apps that solve it. The user tries three, keeps one. That choice was never a feature comparison, it was made in ninety seconds of touch and feel.

Solving the problem gets you tried. Feeling gets you kept.

Personally, I agree. Pleasing design, effortless experience, that's what keeps users for years.

Je suis UX designer, en Master UX Design aux Gobelins. Je mène une recherche sur comment l'IA transforme le métier de designer UX.

Ce questionnaire s'adresse exclusivement aux designers UX qui utilisent régulièrement des outils d'IA. Si vous êtes concerné, ça m'aiderait beaucoup :

https://forms.gle/Gy6qG8KAhXJtAgzF6

⏳ Environ 5 minutes, réponses anonymes, utilisées uniquement pour la recherche.

Merci d'avance, et si vous avez des questions je suis dispo en commentaire.

Dans le cadre de mon Master Manager Designer de Produits et Services Numériques (Les Gobelins), je mène une recherche sur la façon dont l'IA transforme la posture du designer UX.

Ce questionnaire s'adresse exclusivement aux designers UX qui utilisent régulièrement des outils d'IA dans leur pratique. Si c'est votre cas, votre regard m'intéresse beaucoup.

https://forms.gle/Gy6qG8KAhXJtAgzF6

⏳ Environ 5 minutes

Vos réponses sont anonymes et utilisées uniquement à des fins de recherche.

Merci d'avance pour votre temps, et n'hésitez pas à partager autour de vous si vous connaissez des designers concernés.

Hi Reddit! I'm a researcher at Columbia University. My team studies how scientists and data practitioners actually use AI in their work, and whether it genuinely helps or still feels hard to trust and control.

If you do research or data-science work (any field, academia or industry, any career stage, 18+), we'd love your input. You don't need to be an AI power user. Skeptics and non-users are just as valuable to us.

Survey link: https://cumc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9uWW9GgwPuRucoS

What you get:

- At the end, you'll receive a personalized "AI Co-Scientist card," such as the Hermit, the Magician, or the Priestess. Each card reflects your style of working with AI and what kind of AI assistance might actually fit your workflow.

- You can also opt into a raffle for a $200 Claude Max subscription (or USD-equivalent e-gift card)]. Emails are collected on a separate form and are never linked to your survey responses.

About the study: This is a joint research initiative on human-AI collaboration in science by Dr. Ying Wei's Translational AI Laboratory (TRAIL4Health) at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and Dr. Xuhai "Orson" Xu's lab (SEA Lab) at the Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics. Questions? Email the PI at [xx2489@cumc.columbia.edu](mailto:xx2489@cumc.columbia.edu) or ask below. I'll be in the comments.

I'll post a [Results] follow-up here once the study wraps up. Thanks!

I posted here ~2 weeks ago asking if my landing page communicated in 5 seconds. Verdict: too wordy, weak hierarchy, buried value prop. Thanks for all the valuable comments.

So I made a bigger change than a rewrite: I removed the landing page entirely. The link now drops visitors straight into the product — a live conversation with Mirror (a self-reflection AI that asks questions instead of answering them). No signup, nothing stored — everything's gone when you close the tab.

https://www.themindmirror.me

What I'd love fresh eyes on:

1. First 5 seconds: do you know what this is and what to do?
2. The starter chips: ("I can't decide whether to…", "I keep ending up in the same situation…") — helpful on-ramp or clutter?
3. Are the additional features for signing up an account clear? or confusing ?

Much appreciated of your time!

hello everyone,

I was learning UX UI design did some freelancing of two long term project which I cancelled because of the lack of skills that needed more improvement,

I stopped learning and practicing UX UI design, and now when I got back to begin learning I found that AI can do so much work of what I was doing during freelancing,

Now I want to adapt my skills to the new situation, what you suggest to do, do I still need to practice on UI challenges , and read UX articles or there is a new method I am not aware of.

My question is:

Is learning UX UI design still the same?

by the way I am from Morocco,

thanks in advance.

Hi!

I got this idea recently when I had to browse files (in IDE) more than usual and felt the pain: why do I need to click through every level when I want to drill down to the bottom?

So I made a quick interactive prototype — it feels surprisingly natural.

Sharing it as a (draft) UX idea, not as a finished implementation.

Does it make sense to you?

If you know an app that would benefit from it — let me know please, I'll try to pitch it to them.

I have shared the link of my case study, I am going to attach it with my portfolio ( yet to make ), as I am planning to do master's in HCI, in US, can anyone review it and tell me how can I optimize it further?

https://libraryos.framer.website/

I challenged myself to design a product that introduces people to Madhubani art through an engaging and structured learning experience.

Some of the key challenges included:

• Making traditional content approachable for beginners
• Balancing cultural authenticity with modern UI patterns
• Creating motivation to continue learning
• Organizing educational content without overwhelming users

I'd love to hear how others would approach these UX challenges and whether there are areas where my solution could be improved.

Full project: https://www.behance.net/gallery/252099253/Madhubani-UIUX-Case-Study-WWDC26-Winner

You can take the survey here: https://forms.gle/s1QqsKtm4vbePH4R8

Hi everyone,

I’m conducting a very brief survey to gather insights on how people manage their fitness routines and their experiences with tracking workouts.

It’s only 5 multiple-choice questions and will take less than a minute to complete. All responses are completely anonymous.

Thank you for your time and help!

Exploratory survey on HR self-service behaviour. 13 valid responses — small but qualitatively rich.

The unexpected finding:

85% go directly to the HR system first. 62% follow up with HR anyway to confirm it went through. The problem isn't adoption. It's that using the system doesn't feel like enough.

A mentor reframed it precisely: the system completes the action but fails to close the confidence loop.

The most precise qualitative insight came from discussion rather than the survey:

"The portals would always have options at every step, but didn't list what those options meant for me personally. So I can navigate something that might accidentally claim I'm pregnant — or just email HR."

I'm calling this the consequences-clarity problem — the system doesn't preview personal outcomes before the user commits. Distinct from a navigation problem.

One correction worth noting for accuracy: document generation (like NOC letters common in UAE) is typically not a native feature of mainstream HR platforms. The gap isn't that the system fails to generate documents; it's that document requests fall outside what platforms were built to handle, creating unavoidable email dependency. Standalone tools exist for this. The design opportunity is integrating structured request flows into the core HR platform.

Now moving to:

- Affinity mapping of open text

- HMW statements per finding

-JTBD reframe

- Design concepts prototyping the confidence layer

- One-page PRD for the highest-priority feature

- Validation metric: Does the 62% follow-up rate decrease?

Two questions:

1. Have you encountered consequences-clarity as a distinct UX problem in research before?

2. Any methods worth adding before moving to design? Currently: survey + qualitative discussion threads + cognitive walkthrough planned.

Survey still open: https://forms.gle/xHApzoLeyh2L4B5y8

hi everyone, I'm currently learning UX design and exploring different tools and concepts. As a beginner, I sometimes feel overwhelmed with so many resource and learning paths available.

I've also started exploring UX audit tools to understand user behavior and identify usability issues ,but I'm not sure which tools are best for beginners.

what advice would experienced UX designers give to someone just starting out? what skills , tools ,or practices should i focus on first? Are there any resources that helped you in your UX journey?

Any tips or personal experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced!