ABSTRACT

The UX Careers Handbook offers an insider’s look at how to be a successful User Experience (UX) professional from comprehensive career pathways to learning, personal branding, networking skills, building of resumes and portfolios, and actually landing a UX job.

This book goes in-depth to explain what it takes to get into and succeed in a UX career, be it as a designer, information architect, strategist, user researcher, or in a variety of other UX career specialities. It presents a wealth of resources designed to help readers develop and take control of their UX career success including perspectives and advice from experts in the field.

  • Features insights and personal stories from a range of industry-leading UX professionals to show readers how they broke into the industry, and evolved their own careers over time.
  • Accompanied by a companion website that provides readers with featured articles and updated resources covering new and changing information to help them stay on top of this fast-paced industry.
  • Provides worksheets and activities to help readers make decisions for their careers and build their own careers.

Not only for job seekers! The UX Careers Handbook is also a must-have resource for:

  • Employers and recruiters who want to better understand how to hire and retain UX staff.
  • Undergraduate and graduate students who are thinking about their future careers
  • Those in other related (or even unrelated) professions who are thinking of starting to do UX work


 

part 1|1 pages

Establishing Your Foundation

chapter Chapter 1|8 pages

What is User Experience (UX)?

chapter Chapter 2|12 pages

Your Career is Grounded in Your Education

chapter Chapter 3|14 pages

Never Stop Learning

chapter Chapter 4|26 pages

Personal Branding and Networking for Career Success

part 2|1 pages

Getting a Job

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

Resumes and Portfolios to Illustrate Your Value

chapter Chapter 6|13 pages

Work In-house or be an External Consultant

chapter Chapter 8|24 pages

Landing a Job (or New Contract Work)

part 3|1 pages

Recruiters & Employers

chapter Chapter 9|14 pages

Working with a Recruiter; Being a Recruiter

part 4|1 pages

Career Glimpses: What, Specifically, Can You Do?

chapter Chapter 11|88 pages

UX Career Pathways and Primary Skillsets

chapter Chapter 12|12 pages

Pathways to UX Leadership

part |1 pages

Conclusion

chapter Chapter 13|6 pages

UX in the Future; Your Career Today