Finding your voice — and the courage to use it.
How many times have you sat in a meeting where a ‘leader’ says something ridiculous? Proposes a plan of action that has no chance of working unless you suddenly develop the power to bend time and space? Or something that’s dishonest, that takes...
How to deal with the politics of UX + Design.
Let’s start here: ALL UX and design work happens in a political environment. Meaning that there is never a time where personal or organizational interests aren’t influencing the work, one way or the other. Even we, as designers or UXers, see our work,...
What salary should you ask for in an interview?
Awhile back, someone in the process of interviewing for a UX job asked me this question: Hi Joe! I was asked for my salary expectations during the 1st round of interviews and I didn’t know what to say. They said to get back to them with a ballpark estimate soon. The...
What are my chances of getting hired as a UX designer with no real-world experience?
“I’m just about to finish my portfolio and I’m about to start applying for jobs as a junior UX designer. I don’t have a design (retail) background and I’m relying on my portfolio alone that isn’t extensive. I have only two case studies and as of last month...Thank you: Get 9 of my top UX courses…FREE.
Friends, I don’t take a second of any of this for granted. My life and my career — every part of it — is made possible by you. And if I’m honest, I think I do a fairly lousy job of communicating on a regular basis just how much that means to me. So as we hit our...A word on ridiculous workloads and deadlines.
This is something I shared via email yesterday with a young lady I’m coaching, and I thought it might be useful to some of you here. The situation she was facing was a ridiculous ask with an equally ridiculous deadline: a clickable hi-fidelity prototype...
Time for Change. NOW.
I’ll admit up front that this is really a rant with no direction. But it’s something that’s been eating at me for the past week. And when anything sticks with me that long, I know there’s something that matters buried within. So maybe this is nothing more than...
The question everyone looking at your UX portfolio is REALLY asking
I’d like to take you back in time for a minute — back to 1989, to be exact. The place is Kent State University, where I studied Graphic Design in one of the toughest programs in the country. And you need a little backstory on that to fully appreciate what I’m about to...
Thoughts on the New Year: you have all you need.
Friends, I’d like to share a few thoughts on the coming New Year, and a little UX career advice I hope is helpful. A few days back I answered a question in my Private Facebook Group, where a young man asked what he could do to prepare for a second round design...
