The ultimate findability challenge: the decisions you make as you find your way through your career in user experience design. Here's some things to think about, much of it crowdsourced from the community.

1. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THE ULTIMATE FINDABILITY CHALLENGE…
ANDREW HINTON | SENIOR MANAGER, HONEYWELL FORGE | UX HUSTLE SUMMIT 2019 — ATLANTA

2. I MAY NOT BE THE BEST PERSON TO
GIVE YOU THIS ADVICE
#PRIVILEGE

3. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
I ASKED THE TWITTERVERSE
TinyURL.com/FutureProofUX

4. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THE COMMUNITY IS WISE

5. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THEMES FROM THE TWEET-DELUGE
HUMANS
SYSTEMS
RELATION-
SHIPS
LEARNING

6. LEARNING
THEME 1

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THEME: LEARNING

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UX IS A LOT OF THINGS…IT’S GOOD TO BE FAMILIAR WITH AS MANY AS YOU CAN
Sources: NNGroup “User Experience Careers” 2013 & Athena Health Design “Embedding Product Design in a Large Agile Org” 2018
Dan Saffer 2009
Envis-Precisely.com
Elizabeth Bacon
Athena Health Design

9. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
LEARN HOW TO BE COMPETENT IN EVERY PART OF THE DESIGN PROCESS
https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/

10. HUMANS
THEME 2

11. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THEME: HUMANS

12. PEOPLE ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING THEIR
LIVES BEFORE WE DESIGN ANYTHING.
UX ASKS “HOW DO WE DESIGN FROM A DEEP
UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR EXPERIENCE?”

13. TEXT
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
ENVIRONMENT Action
Perception

14. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
OUR ENVIRONMENTS ARE BECOMING MORE COMPLEX
BOTH WITHIN “SCREENS” AND BEYOND THEM …
Images: Wikimedia Commons; Oculus; Amazon; Apple: Libelium

15. SYSTEMS
THEME 3

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THEME: SYSTEMS

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NOTHING YOU DESIGN EXISTS IN A VACUUM…

18. ALWAYS DESIGN A THING BY CONSIDERING IT IN ITS
NEXT LARGER CONTEXT - A CHAIR IN A ROOM, A
ROOM IN A HOUSE, A HOUSE IN AN ENVIRONMENT,
AN ENVIRONMENT IN A CITY PLAN.
E. Saarinen / Architect
YOUR UX CAREER PATH

19. TheDisneyBlog
BUT ALSO
SYSTEMS
NOT JUST SCREENS

20. NOT JUST SCREENS
BUT ALSO
SYSTEMS

21. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
SYSTEMS THINKING & WRANGLING COMPLEXITY
Bryce Glass, 2005
Service Design, Rosenfeld Media
Xin Yun Teng & AirBnB

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SOME BOOKS THAT APPLY SYSTEMS THINKING TO EXPERIENCE DESIGN
¯_(ツ)_/¯

23. RELATIONSHIPS
THEME 4

24. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THEME: RELATIONSHIPS

25. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THEME: RELATIONSHIPS

26. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
THEME: RELATIONSHIPS Mentoring
Participating
CommunicatingListening
Having humility
Growing
Taking responsibility
Influencing
Understanding

27. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
WHATEVER YOUR PATH, CHOOSE IT WITH PURPOSE
Design ManagementDesign Practice
Strategy
Production
Architecting Systems
& Ecosystems
Screen-Level UI
Design
Design Leadership
for Organizations
Design Delivery
Management & Process

28. YOUR UX CAREER PATH
DESIGN LEADERS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DESIGN
Design ManagementDesign Practice
Strategy
Production

29. THANK YOU!
AND BEST WISHES TO YOU
AS YOU FIND YOUR PATH.
Andrew Hinton | andrewhinton.com
YOUR UX CAREER PATH