Introduction to User Experience Design

Take an intro course to see if it’s really for you. I recommend this one.

Hey there, I was also thinking about a boot camp, but first opted for free or low cost courses. I first tried a free cousera course and then went for IDF which is rather low cost. I think you should try free or low cost courses before spending big bucks. All the best!

https://www.coursera.org/learn/user-experience-design

This was a quick and easy introduction to UX, and also has a lot of links and terminology in every section to get you started.

Hey!! I am starting a free, 5-week UX Design course on Coursera here. The class starts today. I could really use an accountability partner to complete everything and talk to about the class. Want to try it out with me?

Hiya!

30-year-old here, just graduated in the summer wth a MSc in Global Health and worked the summer before with street fundraising for the local UNICEF.

Looks like we're on the same path, to some extent. If you don't want to work with the UN or large NGOs, why not find a smaller - perhaps local - one? There's got to be positions on the office level but maybe you, like myself, need more experience before you can apply to that and should start on entry level jobs? What SDG are you most attracted to? See if there are organisations working towards fulfilling that. Maybe I could help?

I'm also interested in Tech and just took an short MOOC as an introduction to user design (UX). In fact, I finished it ahead of time. I loved it, it's very fascinating and touches on what you enjoy about tech. Plus, we can really use our Fe here.

https://www.interaction-design.org/
https://grow.google/uxdesign/#?modal_active=none
https://www.coursera.org/learn/user-experience-design
https://www.coursera.org/specializations/ui-ux-design

Premature congratulations on completing your degree!

Graduate School is another big time & money commitment and doesn't make sense if you aren't excited about it. Truly excited. Joyous. Lord knows we need more pyschs/therapists/counselors helping with the truly mentally ill and simply screwed up people in the world but it doesn't sound like you are convinced it's your calling.

Here is my pitch:

1. Keep your day job slinging coffee and start doing informational interviews with people in the airline industry. (Network to people through friends/family/facebook/linkedin; go to airline related job fairs etc)(see this: https://www.themuse.com/advice/how-to-ask-for-an-informational-interview-and-get-a-yes)

2. Apply for jobs that you won't hate at a major airline. Psychology and Spanish skills will help you deal with upset people/gente. Flight attendants don't work 9-5 but you have some flexibility in your schedule. There are also more corporate type jobs at airports/airline HQ that still have travel benefits.

3. Now you are working at an airline! Deal with upset people, chat with coworkers, pay your bills, oh such an adult.

4. Pay is OK but you are also flying for free! Start getting that passport stamped. Focus on the Spanish speaking world. Start a blog/instagram/etc as a creativity and writing skills outlet. You know the best spot in the Colombian jungle for illegal monkey fights and the hidden wine cellar in Spain where the winning monkeys are sent for retirement.

5. Your blog is initially just a simple Wordpress affair but soon your interests in tech lead you to learn some HTML, some CSS, some javascript. You take some courses on UX (https://www.coursera.org/learn/user-experience-design?action=enroll). You keep coming up with little projects to modify/automate/bamboozle your website and social media. People love it. You love it. Oh you're solving puzzles and being creative.

6. Ten years have passed. Things are good. Job is paying the bills, blog makes you a little money and leads to travel benefits (hotel/tour/product reviews), you write a lot, hack a bit, meet interesting people. No complaints but you are starting to think about doing something different.

7. So you do.

Design Training

I'm trying to find a ux design education platform for a team of developers and was curious if anyone here had feedback or thoughts on what was successful at your company or with you specifically. The group I'm attempting to find education for is mostly back-end ruby on rails developers with very little experience with design. I would ideally like three levels of education for various members of the team, with an intro to UX, fundamentals, and maybe a human centered design class - ideally all within the same suite of education if possible. Also ideally it's something a developer can complete during their down time at work, not a daily scheduled class.

Right now, my top contenders are:

• Interaction Design Foundation
• Future Learn, Future Learn
• Treehouse
• Udemy
• SkillShare
• Learn UI
• Coursera, Coursera

I'm a design professional with no "formal" training in user experience, but have honed my skill set over about an 8 year span (4 spent freelancing) and without having gone through a bootcamp or online training myself, I'm having trouble finding what's appropriate for someone completely foreign to the field.

*Edit - I'll also say I looked into NN Group and while I belive they'll probably be the best education option, their cost turned me (and my company) away.

Thanks

>Georgia institute of technology

Is it this one? https://www.coursera.org/learn/user-experience-design#syllabus

I've had a quick check on syllabus and it seems a bit vague but it sure is a great start for the first step! You're on right right path. And if you find it a bit boring, most of the time, it is. There are great resources out there and you've found a decent one. Beware tho, there are same amount of shit resources pretending that they're the best as well.

If you want to take a step further (and pay a bit) there's neilsen norman group's cerftificate programs and there's this a bit more 'hipstery' but actually good hyper island programs as well.

Also I'd suggest you to start reading this book, it's the bible for ux design. Design of everyday things Make sure to get the yellow one. Black one is a bit older and it's real life examples based on pull-switch fridge handles and folding bus doors. And the yellow is more upto date and talking about with smartphones and electric cars etc lol.

For degree thing, yeah you don't need to confirm unless you're going to apply to an ultra-corporate company. And that's for HR thing. UX and UI outputs are pretty obvious comparing to other branches. I mean if there's a literally product you've released that's a solid proof. That's the working, functioning thing that you've made up and that's exactly what's expected you to do when you get hired.

There are tons of visual outputs when you work on a project. If someone happen to steal someone else's images, just a reverse search on the image would reveal the original poster. Therefore it's a bit hard to lie. Some do give tasks to do before hand tho. Be careful not to spend too much time on them tho. Some companies use this privilege to finish tasks for free.

But at the same time, there are lots of pro social engineers that lie through the interviews but they tend to crash during their work experince (then they end up writing blogs and giving speeches like they've found a cure for cancer)