women in tech denmark at trustpilot january 2016
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So, how did you become a UX designer?
Jenny Shirey | Women in Tech Denmark | January 18, 2017
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Julie Zhou, Junior Designers vs Senior Designers
Where do you want to go next?
Tips for making a career turn
(without going back to school)
Do your research
Don’t Make Me Think
Steve Krug
Interviewing Users
Steve Portigal
The User Experience Team of One
Leah Buley
Well Designed
Jon Kolko
Thinking with Type
Ellen Lupton
Universal Methods of Design
Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington
The Inmates are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
https://medium.com/built-to-adapt/20-pivotal-books-for-designers-1446cd7e4f06#.pjd0zdj32
Julie Zhuo
Cap Watkins
Christina Wodtke
David Kelley
Scott Berkun
Debbie Millman
...
InVision
Airbnb
Intercom
Basecamp
...
…but don’t just research...
Create LOTS of stuff
“A good indicator of potential is someone who has a high volume of work”
–Allison House, HybridConf
https://www.designernews.co/stories/78360-thanks-dn-am-i-a-real-ui-designer-2-year-update
Self-made projects
Unpaid internships
Side projects
Website for your brother
App for your mom
etc...
Be proactive(and specific)
Mentor?
“...women walk up to strangers and say, will you be my mentor? … That’s not how it works. That’s not how a relationship is formed.”
–Sheryl Sandberg, HBR.org
Meetups (like this!)
Peer-to-peer
Post on Dribbble, Designer News, etc
Specific feedback on a specific issue
...
“You are a human and there is a human out there looking at a screen,
just like you are... Try to connect with that human … Think about what they
might be looking for... 99.99% of people don’t do that.”
–Jon Schlossberg, Design Details
Have a growth mindset
“I believe… that everyone, of whatever age and circumstance, is capable of self-transformation”
–Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader
How will you grow?
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