Strategic Career Foresight: UX Themes for 2025 and Beyond
What should designers think about in keeping their career future forward? UX in ATX co-founder Cindy Brummer shared insights from SXSW 2024 on what’s ahead for design.
Enhancing Your Problem Solving Skills in Job Interviews
In this workshop with our guest Lena Clark of Sunflower UX, participants learned how to How to effectively communicate your unique problem-solving processes during job interviews. Including:
Getting Interviews as an Emerging Designer
In this panel workshop, Lawrence Humphrey, founder of Pearl, and a panel of pros share insights on the networking and job interview process.
Strategies for Hiring UX Professionals
With recent shifts in big tech, traditional sectors are proving that total experience can revolutionize outcomes. This panel session unveils how emerging and non-tech industries can secure the best UX and human factors minds, paving the way for remarkable user experiences. Speakers:
Design Thinking for Career Progression
UX leader Sarah Alme shares a host of tools and tactics to evaluate the current state of your career, recognize your superpowers, and identify a potential career progression by leveraging Design Thinking methodologies.
Networking for Gold
How your network can help you get noticed and get hired: Are you sending out resume after resume but have not gotten any responses? Are you stuck in a dead-end job and don’t know how to get the job you long for? A robust network can help you build meaningful connections, leading to hidden job…
Design Skills Framework: Skills to advance your career and build wholesome teams
Developing both the depth and breadth of your skills is essential to becoming an effective collaborator and influential designer. Do you want to learn how identifying individual skill clusters could not only advance your career but also promote effective teams? Andreina Dyer led this workshop with golden nuggets of information on how individuals, managers, and…
The Accessibility Design Path
The need for designers who specialize in accessibility has grown in demand as companies realize that inclusive design is the right thing to do and that accessible digital products outperform competitors by 50 percent.That’s because inclusive products benefit everyone not just the roughly one billion people considered disabled worldwide. In this meetup, we discussed what…
The Content Design Career Path
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, UX in ATX hosted a fireside chat with Tanya Harris, Senior Content Strategist at eBay, about content design and how UX intersects with this discipline. Tanya is passionate about the words we see. When we open our apps, go to a website, use internal tools at work, or receive an…
How to get the most out your conference experience
No more of that awkward standing around. Learn how to make networking work for you at conferences. Panelists included Career Coach Juliet Barrett, who focuses on helping creatives develop process strategies, tools for self-evaluation and streamlined practices that break down large goals into actionable steps, and Focal Point Business Coach Chris Gay.
Portfolio Tips from the Experts
In February 2022, UX in ATX hosted a portfolio review with 10 expert reviewers. Prior to breaking out into smaller groups for these reviews, UX in ATX organizer provided some general portfolio tips for UX designers.
Onboarding and Nurturing Junior Designers
More and more employers are posting openings for UX designers — often with 3 or more years of experience. This makes the job hunt frustrating for junior designers in need of a foot in the door, and employers could be missing out on talent eager to grow and learn. At the same time, employers may…
Moving into UX — How to make your past skills relevant
UX in ATX hosted a discussion on how to make the move into UX Design. The topics include how to make your past skills relevant, how to tailor your resume and some networking tips.
UX in the Gaming Industry
UX in ATX hosted a panel of UX designers currently working in gaming to talk about the unique aspects of UX in this industry as well as how UX designers interested in designing for video games can make their way in. Our panel was Stephanie Sarvis, Rotational Designer at Zynga, Amber Holkenbrink, Associate UI/UX Lead…
The UX Research Career Path
Three amazing panelists joined us for an exciting discussion on the User Experience Research career path. We took a dive deep into this amazing field and how to prepare for it, advance in it and succeed in it. PANELISTS: