UX Careers Articles & Videos

  • UX Resumes for Students and Graduates: Guidelines and Tips

    Sometimes UX students and graduates struggle to create their resumes. Learn which content to prioritize and how to convey it to persuade UX hiring managers and successfully start your UX career.

  • UX Portfolio Updates: A New Year's Resolution

    Is your UX portfolio woefully outdated? Use this simple technique every new year to capture your important achievements and make the task more manageable.

  • Personal Growth in UX: 5 Signs

    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.

  • Defining UX-Career Progression: What Practitioners Say

    UX career progression is not singularly defined, though it typically involves a mix of measurable signals and gut feelings. Growth in the industry is often described as slow and inflexible due to a lack of consistent, measurable criteria and reliable personal-tracking tools.

  • UX Resumes: 10 Things to Remove

    Supercharge your UX resume’s effectiveness by prioritizing substance over style, reducing bias, and highlighting results.

  • The Solo UX Researcher: How to Grow

    Dr. Jakob Nielsen answers the audience question "As the only UX researcher on my team, how do I learn and grow?"

  • Awesome Resumes for UX Career Changers

    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.

  • 5 Tips for UX-Internship Applicants

    Your application should demonstrate your UX skills. Make sure it provides easy-to-access, scannable information and that it addresses your hiring–managers’ needs.

  • Impact on UX: Individual Designers vs. Systematic Methodology

    How is the quality of the final design impacted by the contribution of individual designers vs. the outcome of following systematic UX methodology?

  • UX Basics: Study Guide

    Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn more about the basics of user experience.

  • Effective Resumes for UX Students and Graduates

    Don’t let a sparse resume hinder your first UX-job search. Avoid filler and stand out through academics, job-relevant extracurriculars, or internships.

  • Building Trust in UX

    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.

  • 40 Years in UX

    Jakob Nielsen on what has changed and what has remained the same since he started in UX in 1983.

  • How to Maintain a UX Portfolio Over Time

    Use the new year to reflect on your deliverables and accomplishments. Capture this valuable material for your professional documents annually.

  • UX Internships

    Advice for students in user-experience programs on what to look for in a UX internship.

  • How to Answer UX Job Interview Questions

    Shine brightly in your UX job interviews by demonstrating stellar communication skills to common types of interview questions using STAR and METEOR.

  • Why UX?

    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.)

  • Effective Resumes for UX Career Changers

    Generate more UX-job opportunities with a resume that effectively communicates to UX hiring managers how you are making a career change into UX.

  • The C's of Great UX Mentorship

    Both mentors and mentees need to put effort into the relationship: here are 3 traits for each side, plus 2 more that both should share.

  • Top 3 Informational Interview Questions in UX

    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.