Practical Exercises in the previous section will help you hone your UX design skills. But isolated exercises are not enough, you’ll need end to end design projects to see how everything comes together, the bits and pieces you’re learned in theory and explored through small exercises.

Before going for your own challenges that you have different options for, explained below, here’s a case study from one of my bootcamp students.

End-to-end design projects are what you want to master, this is where you’ll need to show skills if you want to actually become a UX professional: you’ll need to show everything you’ve learned come together into solving a design problem, into building a meaningful (useful and necessary) solution. Easy it is not, but with the right amount of work, determination and iteration you can get pretty good at solving design problems.

Types of projects you can work on 👀

Volunteer

Friends & Family

Hackathons

Real Problems You Spot!

Unsolicited Redesigns

Fictional Prompts