Hi! I’m currently studying UX/UI Design, and I’m feeling a little unsure about my progress on a project for Itaú, a Brazilian bank.

Would anyone be willing to review my project and share some feedback or suggestions on what I could improve?

The first, second, and third rows are complete, but I haven’t finished the rest yet.

I’d really appreciate any feedback. Thank you! Prototype Link

I'm a UI/UX designer focused on creating modern, intuitive, and visually appealing mobile experiences for forex trading, fintech platforms, and financial applications.

At Olavid UI/UX Design, my goal is to help startups, entrepreneurs, and businesses transform their app ideas into user-friendly digital experiences that look professional and work smoothly.

🎨 What I Offer

1. Mobile App UI/UX Design

Clean, modern, and user-friendly interfaces.

High-fidelity mobile app screens.

Thoughtful layouts and intuitive navigation.

1. Forex & Fintech Dashboard Design

Trading dashboards and currency watchlists.

Forex charts and market data layouts.

Portfolio and transaction screens.

Buy/sell order interfaces.

1. Interactive Figma Prototypes

Clickable prototypes demonstrating the user journey.

Smooth transitions and interaction concepts.

User flows that help communicate how an app should work.

1. Design Systems

Consistent colors, typography, buttons, and components.

Reusable UI elements.

Organized design guidelines for future development.

1. Developer-Ready Handoff

Organized Figma files.

Design specifications and assets.

Clear layouts to help developers implement the interface.

✨ My Design Approach

I believe great UI/UX design is more than beautiful screens. It's about understanding users, simplifying complex processes, building trust, and making digital products easier to use.

My design style focuses on clean layouts, strong visual hierarchy, modern typography, thoughtful interactions, and responsive interfaces.

💰 Project Budget

Estimated budget: $900–$1,500 USD, depending on the project scope, number of screens, prototype requirements, and deliverables.

The final scope, milestones, timeline, and payment terms can be discussed before the project begins.

🤝 Who I'd Love to Work With

I'm interested in connecting with:

Startup founders building fintech products.

Entrepreneurs developing forex trading applications.

Businesses improving existing mobile apps.

Teams looking for modern dashboard and mobile UI designs.

🚀 Let's Build Something Great!

If you're developing a fintech product, launching a trading platform, or looking to improve your app's user experience, Olavid UI/UX Design would love to hear about your project.

📩 Interested in working together? Send me a direct message with a brief description of your idea, your goals, and the features you need.

Let's turn your vision into a clean, professional, user-focused digital experience.

— Olavid UI/UX Design

Thoughtful Design. Better Experiences. Smarter Digital Products.

My recommendation: Before posting this on Reddit or Behance, make sure the services you advertise match your current skills and portfolio. If you're still building your experience, describe yourself as an emerging UI/UX designer and showcase your concept projects honestly rather than claiming completed client work.

I can be wrong on this theory and this is just an open discussion so please don’t come for me 😂

The very job of UX, is to find gaps problems find out what we need to solve before actually going in and solving it. We cannot challenge decisions and assumptions in the current environment because that is what makes leadership feel unsafe they want very compliant people that agree with them, whereas the very job of UX is to find the gaps make something better for the end user.

The most needed job in history of the Internet is actually UX. It is the first that will disappear because leadership cannot recognize this because they are so focused on quick visual outputs from designers that don’t understand UX as well as from developers that don’t understand architecture.

Think about what it takes to get promoted if you’re too good in a role, they won’t move you up from there and I’m sure there are some places that don’t do this, but that’s the common thing.
Not rocking the boat being the least threatening all that stuff.
When UX goes into any organization the first thing we seen in any project is asking what are we developing and why are we developing it or designing it whatever the heck you wanna call it but most of the time we have to deal with leadership that doesn’t understand what UX actually does. We’ve been carrying the burden of business development without the title that comes with it.

Open discussion. Just my thoughts on a fine Thursday morning staring at my whiteboard 😔

For anyone who did a B.Des or M.Des in UX/Interaction Design — how does the coursework actually work?

Do they just stick to core design principles, research, and UI, or do they also teach you about product strategy, business metrics, and a bit of frontend code?

Just curious what the actual day-to-day curriculum looks like
Is it worth it?

Hello!
I have 5 years of experience as a Product Designer and am currently looking for a new role, but the job search has been challenging.

With the industry evolving so quickly, especially with AI, I sometimes wonder if I’m missing skills or if my portfolio and approach need to evolve.

For designers with similar experience, what are you focusing on right now to stay relevant and land a job? Are you learning AI, improving your portfolio, or working on something else?

Would really appreciate any honest advice from people navigating the same situation!

Everyone keeps saying AI is going to replace designers, or at least cut our workload in half. Honestly? I feel like my workload has actually increased—at least mentally.

Last week I was working on an onboarding flow. I gave the AI a solid brief, clear direction, and context. To its credit, it followed my direction and spat out a solution in seconds.

The problem? Within that single direction, there were at least 10 different ways to execute it.
Suddenly, my job wasn't designing the screens—it was auditing them. I had to sit there and constantly think through the why, what, and where to pick the actual best option for the company and our specific target audience. I was stuck in an exhausting loop of evaluating technical constraints, hidden assumptions, and business tradeoffs. AI executes in seconds, which is cool, but it has zero clue what to execute, what to leave out, and why.

Plus, it got me thinking: if non-design stakeholders start using AI to bypass us and push features straight to production, aren't they just going to tank their metrics and need designers to come back and fix the mess anyway?

Idk, am I missing something here? I only have about 1.5 years of experience, so I could easily be looking at this the wrong way. For those of you who have been in the industry longer—what is actually going on? Are you guys feeling this too, or am I just using AI wrong?

I recently built 5 pixel-inspired interactions for a portfolio website in Framer.

My goal wasn't just to make the website visually interesting, but to explore how motion could add personality, guide attention, and create a more memorable experience.

While designing these interactions, I kept coming back to one question:

How much animation is too much?

I'd love to hear your thoughts from a UX perspective. Do these interactions enhance the experience, or do they risk becoming distractions?

I recently went through a final-round panel interview for a senior/staff-level product design role — a 20-minute case study presentation followed by live Q&A with a VP, a PM, an engineer, and a couple of design managers. Didn't get the offer, and the one piece of feedback I got back was: "focus on showcasing the full depth and reasoning behind your design decisions."

I'd love to hear from people who've either given or received feedback like this — what does "depth and reasoning" actually mean to you in a portfolio presentation? A few guesses I have, curious if any land:

• Explicitly naming the alternatives you considered and rejected for each decision, not just presenting the thing you landed on?
• Going deeper on fewer screens/decisions instead of covering more ground more quickly?
• Something about delivery/confidence rather than the actual content?
• Something else entirely I'm not even thinking of?

Trying to actually understand this concretely before my next one instead of just guessing at it. If you've seen "depth" done really well (or really badly) in an interview presentation, a concrete example would help a lot.

Hey everyone! This is only my second job as a UI/UX designer, and I need some advice.

My manager and developers expect me to deliver HTML files for my designs. In my previous job, I'd hand over Figma designs to developers, who handled the implementation.

Is this normal industry practice, or does it depend on the company?

Also, I'm designing a data-heavy SaaS dashboard with charts, tables, filters, and tabs. What's the best AI tool to convert existing Figma designs into downloadable HTML/CSS with working interactions?

I'm considering Anima, Lovable, Figma Make, or Claude, but I'm unsure which is best, especially considering credit limits.

Would love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!

Reposting here for some more advice and thoughts

Hey everyone,

Like many designers, I’ve had an unfinished portfolio redesign sitting in my Figma graveyard since 2019. Every time I thought about coding and animating the whole thing from scratch, client work got in the way.

I recently decided to pull it back up and test how far AI tools could accelerate the execution. Instead of spending weeks coding components, I used AI to handle the boilerplate structure and repetitive styling, while I focused entirely on art direction, visual polish, and layout pacing. It still added his usual marks but, I let him as now clients also need to know you can use AI, and don't run away. Can u spot them?

My takeaway: AI isn't replacing the designer's eye anytime soon as it has zero taste on its own, but as an execution accelerator, it turned an abandoned concept into a live product in record time.

The new build is live at criss-design.eu

I’d love some brutal design & UI/UX feedback:

1. How does the hierarchy feel on desktop vs. mobile?
2. Are the micro-interactions too much or well-balanced?

Also curious: how are you all integrating AI into your handoff/build phase without compromising your visual standards?

Early Career designer here…Does anyone have any tips or frameworks you use on the daily basis to help with not missing small details/structure user flows well when you review with a team or manager?

Hi
I’m finalizing a 9-slide UX audit & redesign case study for an iOS app called "Movie Nerd". My main focus was on restructuring the information architecture (IA), improving the Movie Details view hierarchy, and aligning navigation with iOS HIG standards.
I’d really appreciate your raw, honest critique on the presentation itself, but I also have a few broader questions about tools, terminology, and industry standards.
1. Case Study & Information Hierarchy (Be Brutally Honest!)
Information Hierarchy & Content Layout: Is the way I structure and "sort" information on the slides clean and digestible for a senior designer or reviewer? What should I cut, rearrange, or highlight better?
Design Rationale: Do the UX arguments (e.g., splitting Library vs. Watchlist, moving the Watchlist CTA below the summary) feel well-reasoned and professional?
2. UX Tools & Workflow Questions
Which applications are best for creating presentation decks and UX case studies? I’ve been using standard presentation tools, but I’d love to know what tools industry professionals actually use to build high-impact portfolio presentations (Figma, Notion, Pitch, Slides, Illustrator, etc.)?
3. Industry Terminology & Key Vocabulary
Where can I find a good glossary or list of UX/Product key terms? When writing reports and case studies, I sometimes struggle to find the exact corporate/senior wording for UX phenomena, product metrics, and spatial patterns (e.g., cognitive load, feature creep, information architecture, retention, mental models). Any recommended resources, cheat sheets, or books for mastering this vocabulary?
4. Career & Industry Reality Check
What does the day-to-day job of a UX Researcher / UX Designer actually look like? I'm really enjoying building these redesigns and audits, but I want to make sure I understand what I’m getting myself into. How much of the job is actual UI designing vs. meetings, user interviews, stakeholder management, writing docs, and developer handoffs?
Thanks in advance for any feedback, critiques, or insights! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

I've been experimenting with how to make portfolio About pages more useful for potential clients.

Instead of just adding a short bio, I included services, experience, tech stack, design process, and contact information.

I'd love some feedback on the information hierarchy and overall user experience.

Is there anything you'd add, remove, or simplify?

With AI changing the UX industry, I’m trying to figure out which skills I should focus on learning to stay relevant and stand out in the job market.

I have a few questions:

- What AI skills and tools should UX/Product Designers learn in 2026?

- Should I learn AI coding to build functional prototypes and interfaces? If yes, where should I start, especially if I have little coding knowledge?

- Which AI coding tools would you recommend for beginners?

- For my portfolio website, is it better to build my own using AI coding tools or use platforms like Framer?

- if I build my own website, how do GitHub, Vercel/Netlify, and a custom domain work together? What’s the easiest and most affordable way to do this?

- What skills or projects would actually help a UX designer stand out to recruiters today?

Would love to hear practical advice from designers working in the industry. Thanks!

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It's been 6 months now. I started learning ui/ux in the beginning I love doing it with unknown force but now I'm just getting bored in ux theories. Is it the same for everyone or is it only me?