With the rise of digital technologies, a well-designed user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) can help make a company’s offerings more trustworthy and usable. Due to the increasing needs for efficient and intuitive digital presences, the need for UX and UI professionals has also increased. In fact, CNNMoney/PayScale’s list of Best Jobs in America…
John Wallace worked in operations at Vrbo, the vacation home rental arm of travel giant Expedia. After taking part in an internal product workshop, he decided that he wanted to pursue a career in product. “Opportunities were hard to come by,” he said. “I knew that I had to do something to put myself above the competition.” As…
If you have a knack for understanding people and figuring out what makes them tick, a career in user experience (UX) research might just be the right fit for you. In this article, we’ll show you how to become a UX researcher and give you a few insights into what career training opportunities and job…
A handheld video game console. A foldable camping fork. An online banking app. What do these all have in common? Though they’re as different as can be, they all share one key commonality: a UX designer’s expertise. The job of a user experience (UX) designer is to create enjoyable and meaningful product experiences. These professionals…
It’s a fact of life — you spend five seconds figuring out that the pull handle on a door is actually a push mechanism, and those few moments of annoying inconvenience cast a pall over your day. There are millions of examples of similar quirks in consumer psychology. We pick a neutral blue sweater over…
It wasn’t long ago that Isabelle Pinard didn’t know what the terms UX/UI meant. Now, she proudly boasts it as part of her job title on Google’s Android TV team. At her new job, Isabelle has the opportunity to explore her interest in human-computer interaction—a rapidly-changing, ever-evolving technical field. She conducts independent research and discovers ways to…
Yulia Chilikina loved her job as Senior UX/UI Designer at the direct-to-consumer retailer Wine Access — but without a technical background, she struggled to stay on the same page as all the software developers. “I was designing projects without understanding how they would be coded,” said Yulia. “It was a major pain point.” For years, Yulia…
Laszlo Kovesdi was exposed to technology at an early age. His dad was a graphic designer, so he and his brother often played around with the Adobe Suite (in lieu of toys) and figured out the tools together. When he got to high school, Laszlo started taking his design education more seriously by enrolling in classes and…
Like so many among us, COVID-19 turned Muriel Saroufim’s life upside down. She was laid off from her job as a senior visual and UI designer at tech company Dell earlier this year, with over 10 years of experience in advertising, branding and digital design. Disheartened by the layoff — especially with a family to…
The reality of COVID-19 is a world where face-to-face interactions are limited and the virtual exchange of information, goods, and services reigns supreme. The marketing industry is no stranger to digital transformation, but COVID-19 was enough to bring the entire ecosystem online almost overnight. As a creative director at a full-service ad agency, David Ciccocioppo…
Have you ever wondered how to become a UX designer? If you have an eye for design and a passion for improving clunky products, you might be the perfect fit for a career in the field. UX design is simply a shorthand term for user experience design. It encompasses the many ways that people interact…
Teamwork and collaboration are two of the most important factors in an effective UX/UI design process that leads to the development of a great product. With the recent widespread move to remote work, many teams who are used to collaborating in person now rely on the internet to bring them — and their ideas —…
In today’s digital era, a well-designed user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) make a website or an app more engaging, trustworthy, and accessible. That is why an increasing number of companies are looking for talented user interface and user experience designers who can transform the digital presence of their business through optimized interfaces,…
Today, we see the term “UX/UI” thrown around quite a bit—so much so that many people assume the two fields are a single discipline or that they can be used interchangeably. While UX and UI design do share some overlap, they have more differences than similarities. So, let’s explore what each of them really is,…
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