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.
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…
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…
Learn the importance of effectively communicate the value of you design decisions to stakeholders, gain buy-in for projects, and ultimately ensure that their designs align with the company’s overall business goals by demonstrating how improved user experience translates into tangible benefits like increased sales, customer retention, and cost reduction. Download the slides here
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:
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.
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: