The ultimate findability challenge: the decisions you make as you find your way through your career in user experience design. Here's some things to think about, much of it crowdsourced from the community.
8. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
UX IS A LOT OF THINGS…IT’S GOOD TO BE FAMILIAR WITH AS MANY AS YOU CAN
Sources: NNGroup “User Experience Careers” 2013 & Athena Health Design “Embedding Product Design in a Large Agile Org” 2018
Dan Saffer 2009
Envis-Precisely.com
Elizabeth Bacon
Athena Health Design
9. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
LEARN HOW TO BE COMPETENT IN EVERY PART OF THE DESIGN PROCESS
https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/
14. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
OUR ENVIRONMENTS ARE BECOMING MORE COMPLEX
BOTH WITHIN “SCREENS” AND BEYOND THEM …
Images: Wikimedia Commons; Oculus; Amazon; Apple: Libelium
17. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
NOTHING YOU DESIGN EXISTS IN A VACUUM…
18. ALWAYS DESIGN A THING BY CONSIDERING IT IN ITS
NEXT LARGER CONTEXT - A CHAIR IN A ROOM, A
ROOM IN A HOUSE, A HOUSE IN AN ENVIRONMENT,
AN ENVIRONMENT IN A CITY PLAN.
E. Saarinen / Architect
YOUR UX CAREER PATH
26. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THEME: RELATIONSHIPS Mentoring
Participating
CommunicatingListening
Having humility
Growing
Taking responsibility
Influencing
Understanding
27. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
WHATEVER YOUR PATH, CHOOSE IT WITH PURPOSE
Design ManagementDesign Practice
Strategy
Production
Architecting Systems
& Ecosystems
Screen-Level UI
Design
Design Leadership
for Organizations
Design Delivery
Management & Process
28. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
DESIGN LEADERS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DESIGN
Design ManagementDesign Practice
Strategy
Production
29. THANK YOU!
AND BEST WISHES TO YOU
AS YOU FIND YOUR PATH.
Andrew Hinton | andrewhinton.com
YOUR UX CAREER PATH