UX Career Accelerator Workshop (AI focused) - SF Bay area (Aug 2025)

• Steven Ma, a Staff UX Lead / Manager, has 20+ years of experience in UX design, mainly in Silicon Valley and Seattle.
• He has also taught at General Assembly as an instructor on their UX Design Immersive course and has been teaching UX for 8+ years.

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. A truly unique view and understanding of how you can leverage the latest Gen AI tools to put yourself in the top 10 percentile of the job market.

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Info: Introduction, logistic, and objectives for the day

Info: Level-set on the value of UX design and what it is really about | Aligning the value between business and the UX discipline

Info: 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 | Exhibit behaviors that will get you promoted

Info: First official break to refuel | Flexible timing

Info: Still using Figma? What if I tell you Figma may go the way of dinosaurs ? We'll discuss how AI is impacting our line of work as UX designers and how we go about doing researches. I'll be demonstrating some of the cutting edge design approaches with AI using Firebase Studio (text-to-prototype), Google Stitch.(text-to-design)

Info: Insider tips on acing your next job application | Ingredients of an effective resume / case study | Acing your next job interviews

Info: Career progression for individual contributors | Should I become a UX manager? What do managers do? | Freelancing, Consulting, and other options

Info: Answering your questions | Wrapping up the day

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