About the workshops
Despite all the labels we use to describe ourselves, we are all so fundamentally different. Different skills, different experiences and different interests.
How do you best represent yourself to others so that you are applied to the right challenges for your skillset?
How do you recruit people in your team to fit the needs of your projects?
How do you help define how you and others can develop their skills?
In this workshop, Jason Mesut will help you answer these questions.
He’ll share the latest of his work over the past 16 years developing frameworks for user experience designers to map their skills and define their future professional development.
Jason will guide attendees through a process to reflect on who they are and the designers they aspire to be.
The session is highly interactive to ensure learning is gained from all attendees.
As a result of this workshop, designers will be able to map where they are against others, and better assess their peers, recruit new talent and develop their teams to be the best versions of themselves. For their future and the impact they want to have on their organisation and the wider world.
Benefits
Reflect on your career, your strengths and your gaps
Understand your inner diversity
Focus your professional development
Online
2 x 3h live sessions running over Zoom within the same week.
Different times to work for different timezones and personal/work contexts.
Physical
4h morning session based in London, all materials provided.
What you'll get from the workshop
Because everyone is different, I have found that different designers get different benefits from the sessions. Here are some example outcomes.
Time to reflect on yourself — your career, your skills, your preferences, your priorities
Increased understanding of your own inner diversity
An appreciation of what you bring to a team and job role
Greater clarity of where you want to develop yourself
A better way to communicate your value and difference to others
What attendees have said
“Thoughtful, sobering, empowering,
reflective. I’ll be thinking about it for
some time. Nice to have this self
reflection.”
“I was thinking about improving skills
like user research etc before I came to
this workshop then realised I need to
improve more soft skills like having
stronger backbone.”
“I believe the most important outcome of the workshop and the tools are the “AHA” moments based on self-reflection. Something we don´t do often as designers.”
How it will work
Completing an exercise
After an introductory framing, Jason will guide attendees through a series of exercises using visual frameworks he has developed.
At various points, attendees may share pseudonymized completed visual frameworks of their own and reflect on the differences
Online
Online events will be hosted on Zoom using Miro to share charts
There will be broken down into two sessions of two hours each over two weeks
Jason will be available after each of the core sessions to answer questions
Attendees will be expected to print the tools in advance, or use them with their tablets
In-person
Half day session 9am–1pm or 2–6pm with one break
Refreshments, templates and pens will be provided within the room
Psychological safety
It is really important for attendees to feel as safe as possible to be as honest as possible with themselves when self-reflecting
All mappings and works will be pseudonymised with a code allocated to you at the beginning of the workshop
Attendees will be able to use their discretion to only share what they are willing to share
Attendees will be asked to respect the anonymity of any comments, questions or other contributions
About Jason Mesut
Jason Mesut
Jason has spent over 17 years working within UX at some of the largest and some of the most respected agencies within the UK.
Over these years, he has struggled to know what to call himself. Management consultant, digital strategist, service designer, product manager, interaction designer or user experience consultant. Just some of the labels he has used. Through his work he doesn't think that the labels matter that much. It's more about the specific skills you offer.
Currently, Jason runs Resonant Design and Innovation, a consultancy that gives his clients more of his time. He also works as part of The Group of Humans. He works with partners to help them with their challenges. Building teams. Creating solutions that push the envelope but are actually delivered. Always focusing on achieving value to businesses, employees, and the users or customers they serve.
Jason also runs highly in-demand monthly local IxDA London events with his co-leader, Boon Chew.