The term ‘UX’ refers to ‘user experience,’ the experience a
user gets while visiting a website. It is the duty of UX designer to build a
smooth user experience. They have to make sure to add psychological concepts
(like utilizing whitespace and heatmap knowledge) while designing, altering and
executing. Through the journey, everyone needs a mentor to guide, to learn fast
and to avoid reinventing the wheel.
Also, if you know how a UX beginner should start his career
and also agreed to share your knowledge among them, but not sure how to do it,
you have landed on a right page.
Also, if you knows inside-outs of a designer’s career and agreed
to share your knowledge among them but unaware how to do so, we are here for
you.
But remember that,
You don’t need to be an expert or a UX Designer on a senior role to share the lessons to your mentee, you can start today and teach If you want to.
So, let’s see what we have brought to you to become a good
and better UX mentor.
Create Engaging Relations
Keep the communication
smooth, this helps in building engaging and trustworthy relationship. It is a
trait of an elementary school’s teacher who deals strictly with their students
and shouldn’t use now.
Tell stories and find the easiest possible way to make
teaching and learning fun.
But you must be wondering how engagement will help in
mentoring. Well, answer this, how can you suppose to hit the consciousness of
your mentee without building engagement with them.
Empathy Creates Win-Win Situation
The mentor has to be in the shoes of mentee so as to build relation
between them. The building of relation makes the mentor aware of strong and weak
points of a mentee. Being aware of positive and negative aspects, a mentor can bring
their mentee on a long route with less efforts.
Build Habits
Setting clear goals towards the project enables the
execution at best so it is always best to discuss expectations before
beginning. Building such habits make the process easy and clears the project
dealing.
When it comes to mobile app development or custom software development services, the discipline comes into the play. It is the duty of
mentor to put the mentee in an environment where such habits can outgrow.
Share Your Experiences
The journey of being a UX designer needs to be aware with
the experiences other than skills and a mentor on the same journey can share
them well. Hence, if you have been in massive troubleshooting, let your mentees
experience the same because experience lasts longer than lessons.
Praise them Often
An appreciated individual
works better than an ordinary mentee. They want to be appreciated for
their efforts and hard work. Hence, praise even if they have achieved minor milestones
as the small moments deserves celebration too. If they do something wrong,
direct them with a pat on the back but avoid criticism at all costs.
Final Thoughts
We have collected the best advices and put them here for the
aspiring mentors. We feel that these are the psychological necessities, other
than UX expertise, a mentor should have to become a great teacher.
If you know that we have skipped some points or forget to add
them in our list, let us know in the comments section.
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