Learning UX by Doing UX

Summary: 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.

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Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a retired principal and co-founder (with Dr. Donald A. Norman) of the Nielsen Norman Group. Jakob established the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and invented the heuristic evaluation method.

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