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Whitepaper: How To Launch Your UX Career and Get Paid
Check out my whitepaper for UXPin's Free Design Library: How To Launch Your UX Career and Get Paid. What You'll Learn The 3 most effective ways to turn passion into a paying UX career. How to navigate all the risks of building a UX career. If UX is the right long-term...
My 5 Favorite UX Conferences for Educators
I often get asked by educators and people who are new to UX: "what are the best conferences to attend?" My answer is often: "that depends." For educators, who notoriously suffer from a dearth of travel funding, making it to top-notch UX conferences can be difficult....
5 Tips for Teaching and Training With WordPress
Why I Use WordPress For Teaching A lot of colleagues have asked me over the years: "why do you use WordPress for teaching?" My answer is always some version of: "uh, what else would you use?" For me, WordPress is the natural choice for creating great learning...
Getting Started With UX Design Process & Documentation: A Pocket Guide
Check out my ebook published in UXPin's free design library: Getting Started With UX Design Process & Documentation. Get your free copy here: http://www.uxpin.com/primer-ux-design-process-documentation.html. Why I Published This Pocket Guide As a self-taught UXer,...
Why We Need to Teach Marketable Digital Skill Sets in Higher Education
I have taught at the college level for over a decade now, and though it may be bold to say as a pre-tenure faculty member: we need to do better when it comes to teaching marketable digital skill sets. The current global economy is becoming increasingly digital,...
Practical UX Career Development: How To Network In(to Any Technology-Driven Field)
As an educator who is also a UX practitioner, I get a lot of students asking me: "how can I break into this field?" Despite what my industry counterparts say, I usually respond: "it's tough." Don't get me wrong. I don't disagree about the following things common to...
A Blogging Guide for Beginners: Everything You Need To Know To Start a Blog
Mike Wallagher is a professional blogger and internet marketer who helps beginners to make their blogs more successful. When he is not behind a computer, he is probably in the woods taking pictures of nature. Starting a New Blog Can Be Confusing… Really Confusing! But...
Intercultural UX: My Podcast With Kirk St. Amant on Personas and Intercultural Communication
Kirk St.Amant and I sat down recently with Ryan Weber, Director of Business and Technical Writing and Director of UX Programs at University of Alabama-Huntsville, for an episode of his technical communication podcast 10 Minute Tech Comm. We discussed our recent...
Focusing on Users Is the Most Basic Principle: An Interview With Susan Tacker, User Experience Manager for Teradata
Susan Tacker is User Experience Manager for Teradata Applications in Raleigh, NC, and holds degrees in English, Journalism, and Human Factors in Information Design. She founded the Houston, TX chapter of UXPA in 2013 and served as Executive Director. She is currently...