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UX Partnerships With Higher Education: A Win-Win Scenario
As part of my ongoing partnership with TryMyUI, I recently co-wrote a chapter for their free ebook This SUX: A Guide to Better User Experiences. Co-written with their Director of Educational Services, Karan Saggi, my chapter is called UX Partnerships With Higher...
Whitepaper: How To Launch Your UX Career and Get Paid
Check out my whitepaper for UXPin's Free Design Library: How To Launch Your UX Career and Get Paid. What You'll Learn The 3 most effective ways to turn passion into a paying UX career. How to navigate all the risks of building a UX career. If UX is the right long-term...
My 5 Favorite UX Conferences for Educators
I often get asked by educators and people who are new to UX: "what are the best conferences to attend?" My answer is often: "that depends." For educators, who notoriously suffer from a dearth of travel funding, making it to top-notch UX conferences can be difficult....
5 Tips for Teaching and Training With WordPress
Why I Use WordPress For Teaching A lot of colleagues have asked me over the years: "why do you use WordPress for teaching?" My answer is always some version of: "uh, what else would you use?" For me, WordPress is the natural choice for creating great learning...
Getting Started With UX Design Process & Documentation: A Pocket Guide
Check out my ebook published in UXPin's free design library: Getting Started With UX Design Process & Documentation. Get your free copy here: http://www.uxpin.com/primer-ux-design-process-documentation.html. Why I Published This Pocket Guide As a self-taught UXer,...
Why We Need to Teach Marketable Digital Skill Sets in Higher Education
I have taught at the college level for over a decade now, and though it may be bold to say as a pre-tenure faculty member: we need to do better when it comes to teaching marketable digital skill sets. The current global economy is becoming increasingly digital,...
Practical UX Career Development: How To Network In(to Any Technology-Driven Field)
As an educator who is also a UX practitioner, I get a lot of students asking me: "how can I break into this field?" Despite what my industry counterparts say, I usually respond: "it's tough." Don't get me wrong. I don't disagree about the following things common to...
A Blogging Guide for Beginners: Everything You Need To Know To Start a Blog
Mike Wallagher is a professional blogger and internet marketer who helps beginners to make their blogs more successful. When he is not behind a computer, he is probably in the woods taking pictures of nature. Starting a New Blog Can Be Confusing… Really Confusing! But...
Intercultural UX: My Podcast With Kirk St. Amant on Personas and Intercultural Communication
Kirk St.Amant and I sat down recently with Ryan Weber, Director of Business and Technical Writing and Director of UX Programs at University of Alabama-Huntsville, for an episode of his technical communication podcast 10 Minute Tech Comm. We discussed our recent...