While Marnina has always loved design, her favorite part has always been what happens before putting pen to paper. She recently abandoned her job as a designer in exchange for a PhD in design and psychology.
Sera Tajima has done it all. She’s worked at startups. She’s worked at mid size companies. She’s worked at large corporations. And now she runs her own ed tech business teaching students UX design skills for the real world.
Meet Matthew McPhail, a former chef turned Industrial Designer turned UX Designer. Matthew made the jump to UX Design a few years back after working as an industrial designer at places like Dyson and Ford. Today he joins the show to discuss his journey and what he’s learned along the way.
Low UX maturity can be frustrating for many UX professionals. You don’t get to do what you think is right. You get pushback from every direction. It feels like you’re constantly swimming against a current of bad practices.
Most designers are not very good at negotiating salaries. Negotiating your next salary can seem like a daunting task, but Salary negotiation is a skill just like any other. If you don’t learn this skill, the effects can linger.
Some teams do a great job of collaborating with stakeholders. Some don’t. The way your team deals with stakeholders has a level of maturity all on its own. Unfortunately, this is often overlooked except by some of the smoothest-running software teams.
You hear a lot of people talk about the importance of critical thinking, and how it’s an important thing for UX professionals to master. But what exactly does that mean? How can we practice? How do we do it correctly?
Are you and your engineers constantly at each other’s throats? Always blaming each other for delays? Always fighting over why the final production UI doesn’t look anything like your wires? Are they constantly adding in features at the last minute but never involving the design team?
Before getting into the UX field, Jon Clancy had one hell of a life. He spent his time in the great outdoors, guiding would-be adventurers down river on rafts, and teaching therapeutic yoga. So how did he end up as a senior UX Researcher? Stick around and you’ll hear all about it.
Not long ago, cave paintings were found depicting a fierce battle between product managers and UX designers. True story. It seems everywhere you go, no matter the industry, the size of the team, the product they sell, there is a constant battle between product managers and the UX team.
