Career Advice

Some things they just have to learn for themselves.

AI is coming for our pixels. How do we leverage our humanity to drive our destiny as designers?

Or why you should quit your dead-end job before it’s too late

Despite executives' expectations, a new study has found that artificial intelligence is hindering, rather than helping, employees' workloads.

Retaliation, burnout, targeted eliminations, and other horror stories from the tech industry. Are you next? How can you prepare?

This is a collection of relevant discussions regarding the UX career for 2024, here you will find research that was made, changes that…

The musings of a designer on what he loves about design and what he’s learned along the way.

I want to tell my story about how I came into the design, and how anyone can do the same with a certain will and dedication.

Thanks to all 170+ of you who voted last week on our cover design. The clear winner, coming in at over 70%, was this one, which makes me laugh every time. The book itself is in the layout stage (the manuscript gets converted to actual book pages) and on schedule for a release this September. Stay tuned for more details.

How you portray yourself matters as much as your work.

Your gift for explaining things can change your career

you have abilities most people don't - it's time to use them

How much do UX Researchers make? Data on UXR and Research Ops salaries in 2024, plus key year-over-year UX research salary trends.

After almost a decade of working on digital products across various industries, meeting almost 100+ leading designers from different…

In this article, we'll explain essential components of effective UI design, such as size, spacing, consistency, shapes, visual balance, and many more, so keep reading!

I’m going to break down why the terms “UX” and “user experience” don’t actually describe what it is we design, and the fact that every…

From starting my UX design career in 2014, to getting my first ever freelance gig, to achieving 100,000 subscribers on YouTube, and…

Product Design Director Ryan Lee on following your purpose, growing as a leader, and always staying close to your craft

Coping mechanisms to deal with work overload.

Designing a better experience starts with understanding where we’ve been and where we can go.

Stay to Influence and Learn… change course for Passion and Growth… and always be looking ahead for that next Great Leader.

Ways of measuring your influence on your team and beyond

Top 3 problems for designers: no research, no design strategy, and no career progression It’s been a horrible year for design. Mass layoffs from 2023 contin ...

Stop reading right now if you’re looking for feel-good advice. This is not going to be that kind of article.

To understand others, you need to know more than just their fleeting emotions. You must be able to perceive who they are as people.

The flow state has been co-opted by Silicon Valley to mean productivity, but it’s more about enjoyment than meeting metrics.

Standing up for yourself as a UX person and getting buy-in from senior management.

In UI/UX design, empathy is a foundational skill. How do we harness this skill to create beautiful experiences for our users?

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