Struggling to Build Your UX Skills?

The UX Growth Challenge is a newsletter with actionable tasks to sharpen your skills, build your portfolio, and grow your career.

why join the ux growth challenge?

✍️ Learn by Doing. Tackle real-world UX challenges each week

📁 Grow Your Portfolio. Showcase your work with meaningful, project-ready exercises

💪 Build Confidence. Strengthen skills like research, design thinking, and presenting ideas

🕊️ No Pressure. Challenges are optional and adaptable to your pace

🧭 Guidance Advice. Curated advice from the creator of the UX Grow Podcast

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Sharpen Your Collaboration Skills

Great UX Design is More Than Pixels—It’s People and Processes.

Scenario:
You’ve created a sleek new prototype, and it’s time to present it to stakeholders. But strong UX design doesn’t stop at crafting a beautiful interface. It’s about having collaboration, navigating feedback, and defending thoughtful decisions.

Your Challenge:

Step 1: Craft three open-ended questions to spark meaningful feedback on your design.
Example: “How do you see this approach aligning with our users’ key pain points?”

Step 2: Prepare a response to handle constructive criticism about a design decision you’re confident in.
Tip: Use empathy and logic—acknowledge the concern and share your reasoning.

Step 3 (Optional): Grab a friend or colleague and role-play a feedback session. Practice staying calm, listening actively, and summarizing feedback to ensure clarity.

Pro Tip:
Turn critique into collaboration by summarizing feedback before responding. Try this: “It sounds like the dropdown might be hard to find. Did I understand that correctly?”

Meet Your UX Growth Guide

Hi, I’m Nick Mann—your guide in the ever-evolving world of UX design. Over the past six years, I’ve honed my skills as a UI/UX designer, working with agencies to create user-centered solutions for diverse clients.

From startups to established brands, I’ve seen firsthand how great design can transform ideas into impactful experiences.

Before launching The UX Growth Challenge, I taught web design to aspiring creatives, helping them turn curiosity into craft.

Now, as the host of the UX Growth Podcast, I share insights and conversations with top design minds to inspire and empower designers at every level.

I created this newsletter to give you practical tools and challenges to grow your skills because I know how tough (and rewarding) the UX journey can be.

Let’s level up together!