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Chris Gherman
992 PointsUX Design Career Path
I am considering going down the UX design career path and wondered if anyone can point me in the right direction.
3 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsThere's a lot of confusion about what exactly UX is and what a UX pro does day to day.
So I'd start with this these online courses
- Intro to the Design of Everyday Things from the eminent Don Norman
- User Experience for the Web
- Human-Computer Interaction (Traditional HCI has a lot of overlap with UX)
In addition to knowledge required there are also "deliverables"
- Lynda.com has a User Experience section check out the courses labeled "UX Design Tools" and "UX Design Techniques"
- https://hackdesign.org/lessons
Besides those courses most of UX is reading books:
- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- [Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites](http://www.amazon.com/Information-Architecture-World-Wide-Web/dp/0596527349/
- The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
For some perspective about starting out in a career check out how to break into user experience design
James Barnett
39,199 PointsSome organizations want hybrid UXers, the skills of UX meeting the skills of a web designer (or simply think that UX is UI).
Instead of rapid prototyping instead they want to "prototype in code" for that you need HTML, CSS, CSS Frameworks and probably JavaScript as well. Wireframes and mockups are bread and butter of a UX, some organizations don't want to use a tradition purpose-built tool for that instead they use Photoshop or Illustrator.
Treehouse has courses for all of those things under the Web Design track.
Also Treehouse is adding a Intro to UX course next week.
Chris Gherman
992 PointsThanks so much James! I will check all the links above.