Is your UX portfolio woefully outdated? Use this simple technique every new year to capture your important achievements and make the task more manageable.
There are five primary signs of personal growth in the UX field: gaining new skills, recognition from others, taking on strategic efforts, autonomy from leadership, and gaining confidence.
Changing your career into user experience? Reduce stress and improve your job prospects by redesigning your resume to emphasize your UX education and job-transferrable skills.
Whether UX succeeds or fails comes down to whether other people in the organization trust the UX team, the UX process, and the UX findings and designs. Low trust = poor outcomes, no matter how good the work, so building trust is a priority.
Key arguments why companies should have systematic user-experience processes. Plus a discussion of the main arguments against UX. (Jakob Nielsen's UX Conference keynote.)
Informational interviews allow you to connect with users and other people and get a glimpse into their world and how and why they work. They serve as an informal research tool for learning about a new domain or role.
The best way to learn UX is by *doing* UX. Knowing some theory and concepts is key, but superior skills are built by reflecting upon the outcome of practicing the skill.
Dual career ladders are important in user experience. Don't force talented UX professionals to become managers if their growth path would instead benefit from focusing on UX craft.
If experienced designers want to learn about psychology and how it applies to user experience, should they get a psychology degree, or is it better to learn on your own?
UX staff can be organized in two ways: centralized or decentralized (or a hybrid). The teams can also report into different parts of the bigger organization. There is currently no single best practice for these team-structure questions.
The user experience field will see dramatic changes over the next 3 decades, driven by trends in demographics and the world economy. We will end up like the Little Mermaid. (This was Jakob Nielsen's UX Conference keynote.)
