So, how did you become a UX designer?

Jenny Shirey | Women in Tech Denmark | January 18, 2017

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Julie Zhou, Junior Designers vs Senior Designers

Where do you want to go next?

Tips for making a career turn

(without going back to school)

Do your research

Don’t Make Me Think

Steve Krug

Interviewing Users

Steve Portigal

The User Experience Team of One

Leah Buley

Well Designed

Jon Kolko

Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton

Universal Methods of Design

Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington

The Inmates are Running the Asylum

Alan Cooper

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/20-pivotal-books-for-designers-1446cd7e4f06#.pjd0zdj32

Julie Zhuo

Cap Watkins

Christina Wodtke

David Kelley

Scott Berkun

Debbie Millman

...

InVision

Airbnb

Intercom

Basecamp

...

…but don’t just research...

Create LOTS of stuff

“A good indicator of potential is someone who has a high volume of work”

–Allison House, HybridConf

https://www.designernews.co/stories/78360-thanks-dn-am-i-a-real-ui-designer-2-year-update

Self-made projects

Unpaid internships

Side projects

Website for your brother

App for your mom

etc...

Be proactive(and specific)

Mentor?

“...women walk up to strangers and say, will you be my mentor? … That’s not how it works. That’s not how a relationship is formed.”

–Sheryl Sandberg, HBR.org

Meetups (like this!)

Peer-to-peer

Post on Dribbble, Designer News, etc

Specific feedback on a specific issue

...

“You are a human and there is a human out there looking at a screen,

just like you are... Try to connect with that human … Think about what they

might be looking for... 99.99% of people don’t do that.”

–Jon Schlossberg, Design Details

Have a growth mindset

“I believe… that everyone, of whatever age and circumstance, is capable of self-transformation”

–Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader

How will you grow?

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