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The Career Advice section is where you can find guidance on getting into the UX field through to advancing your UX career. My articles cover how to build a strong portfolio, ace interviews, and develop skills that make you stand out.

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6 Steps To Kickstart Your UX Design Career

There’s a lot to be said for following a digital UX designer career path. In most job markets, UX design for websites is a high-demand, well-paid job that delivers impressive rates of job satisfaction among UX designers.

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How To Pivot To A UX Design Career From Marketing

The demand for UX designers has risen recently, prompting many in complementary career fields like marketing to wonder, “Is a career in UX design for me?” UX and UI designers (user experience and user interface designers) work to create an inclusive, immersive experience for visitors to a brand’s website or app. While UX and UI…

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White Space Analysis In Your Career

In business, “White Space Analysis” refers to exploring future opportunities and untapped markets. For sales professionals, white space is the gap between what products or services a customer has already invested in and the other products or services that a company or business has to offer. Besides identifying new opportunities for existing products and services,…

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Developing Your Talent Stack
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Developing Your Talent Stack

The “Talent Stack” is a concept by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. It states that you can combine ordinary skills until you have enough of the right kind to be extraordinary. While Adams confesses he’s not much of an artist or a business expert, he’s combined those two skills with writing and his quick wit to create a…

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Pushing Your Comfort Zone
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Pushing Your Comfort Zone

How do you grow professionally? Gain better skills, get a new job, or just find time to think? How do you push past your comfort zone? New Year’s Day is right around the corner. At this time many people, myself included, make resolutions toward positive behavioral changes. A classic example is saying you’ll hit the…

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Nailing Your UX Job Interview
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Nailing Your UX Job Interview

Hurray! You’ve landed the ideal UX job interview. Now, how do you prepare for it? How do you keep your nerves steady? What’s your strategy to win the day and actually get the job? If you treat your UX job search like the design problem it is, there’s usually two personas to satisfy; the HR…

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