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…
UX Frontiers 2023: Artificial Intelligence in Design
Welcome to the UX Frontiers conference UX in ATX was excited to present its first conference virtually in June 2023. Our topic was AI in Design, and we assembled a full day of expert speakers and panel discussions. Watch the conference recordings below.
Breathing Life into Your Prototypes with Figma Microinteractions
As (UX) designers, we strive to create intuitive, delightful, and memorable user experiences. Microinteractions, the small yet impactful moments that occur during user interactions, play a crucial role in shaping these experiences. In this session, you’ll discover:
Escaping the Bad Design Echo Chamber: 4 Easy Steps
Just because you saw it on the internet, doesn’t mean it’s good design. Many of today’s UX designers are new to the field, self taught, or straight out of boot camp. Others of us are overtaxed with projects or leashed by short timelines for deliverables. In cases like this, we look online for existing work…
Creative Burnout – Ignite Your Spark!
Feeling stuck lately, as if your gas tank of internal creative resources has landed on empty? That’s creative burnout, and it’s a signpost telling us that it’s time to grow. Coach Stephanie Sansoucie taught us how we can combat our burnout and turn it into an opportunity to unleash our potential.
Making Your Usability Studies Accessible
You want to include participants with disabilities in your usability studies, but where do you start? UX in ATX invited presenter Erica Braverman to speak about how to bring accessibility into all stages of planning and running a usability study, and the skills you can use to develop accessible studies for your own research needs.
How to Rock Your Personal Brand on Social Media
New Year, New You! Struggling to solidify your personal brand identity? LinkedIn profile not capturing the sparkle you could bring to a new project or team? Sha-Lene Pung spoke to UX in ATX to explore how to develop your personal brand on LinkedIn and other social media. Sha-Lene presented 10 simple steps that professionals can…
Auto Layout in Figma
Learning a new tool such as auto-layout can be confusing or challenging for many designers, but Figma offers some extremely powerful and useful mechanics that can drastically improve your designs. In this session, our Figma expert, Nathan Flores, walked through auto-layout and its ability to provide consistency, flexibility, and a guideline for future work.Topics:
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…
What you should know about Agile and Lean UX
Agile frameworks are often used in industries that employ UX Designers, but design bootcamps can be light on information. Learn how UX and agile work together through the experiences of veteran designers. Hear from, Mike Gallers, a staff UX Designer, with 20 years of experience doing UX for companies large and small. He has worked…