Opinions, thoughts & advice
LAND YOUR FIRST
UX DESIGN JOB
Tim Caynes reveals the secrets to securing
your first graduate user experience role
Landing your first role as a designer
can be challenging but in this
article I’ll give you the best advice I can
about how to kick-start your experience
design career. Whether you’re wondering
where you go after walking out of the
union building for the last time or you
have a couple of years of design
experience, I’ve made a list of five
essential areas that are invaluable to
propelling your career forwards.GET OUT THERE
If you take nothing else away from this
article, don’t ignore this: you need to be
the first name on someone’s brain list
when an opportunity explodes. And there
are specific ways to worm your way into
people’s brains.
First things first, get on board with the
User Experience Professionals Association
(UXPA) and Interaction Design Association
(IxDA). They’ve got countless resources,CAREER ADVICEQ&A 35
We meet Laura Kalbag, the designer and
developer dedicated to taking on big tech
through the Small Technology Foundation
INTERVIEW 26
Amina Adewusi shares her journey from
teaching herself to code to joining the Guardian
News & Media engineering team in just one year
ESSAY 20
Rob Sandbach on how the UK should leverage
both its soft and hard skills to offer the most
attractive development propositions abroad
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