A UX challenge is a task that prompts designers to design a solution to a problem or scenario. UX design challenges are great for practicing UX design skills, design thinking, and whiteboarding.
Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice. UX Challenges and Product Design Exercises. With design exercises and whiteboard challenges for everything from onboarding and journey mapping to competitive analysis and user flows — to get ready for the next UX interview.
Learning Resources:
- UX Challenges and Design Exercises, by Jordan Bowman and Taylor Palmer –https://lnkd.in/eb7jkaGc
- 100 Example UX Problems, by Jon Crabb – https://lnkd.in/eatDq2PH
- WeWork Product Design Exercises, by Artiom Dashinsky – https://lnkd.in/eRu8bArQ
- UX Design Challenges From Real World, by Uxcel https://lnkd.in/eH_Yrugg
- UX Whiteboard Challenges, by Zohar Lindenbaum – https://lnkd.in/ec66msdZ
- Design Challenges For UX Designers, by Sharpen – https://sharpen.design/
- Whiteboard Design Practice Challenges, by Zac Halbert, Jake Fleming – https://designercize.com/
- How To Perform Best In Whiteboard Design Challenges, by Zhenshuo Fang – https://lnkd.in/e2keCUMq
- How to Tackle a Design Interview Challenge, by Chrysan Tung – https://lnkd.in/ema9aaXG
- Working Through Product Design Exercises in Job Interviews, by Tanner Christensen – https://lnkd.in/eey2G3RX
- Weekly Product Design Challenges (newsletter), by Artiom Dashinsky – https://lnkd.in/esvTa-MX
- UX Design Workbooks and Exercises, by Krisztina Szerovay – https://lnkd.in/ewh-Dz_S
- Solving Product Design Exercises (book, highly recommended!), by Artiom Dashinsky – https://lnkd.in/eS6RwrFz
Additionally:
- Design Challenges Workbook by Supercharge Design
- Design the App From Scratch by Bojan Novakovic and Michał Filipiuk
- Figmaster plugin by Matt Wierzbicki
- Solving Product Design Exercises by Artiom Dashinsky
- Free UX Course & Figma Workbook by Kickass UX
Some official “challenges” I found:
- I discovered this great UX Writing newsletter that sends you a short exercise for 14 days. The task is to come up with a Headline, Body, and Button for a specific topic with a limited set of characters. Not sure if UX writing in English is very helpful for my job in an Austrian UX Design Studio, but I wanted to save it as an option for later.
- This page offers a list of 100 UX challenges, that can be used to create small prototypes:
- Super retro-looking page with a “random prompt generator for whiteboard design practice”
- Also, here is a great website with UX tools, it could be helpful to check each of them daily, or once a week, to learn something new
- I also found this “100 days UI challenge”, which has been done by so many designers already (Dribbble, Collect UI) but also criticized a lot.
- There’s also this Sketching for UX exercise.