The Rest of UX
There are so many ways to learn how to become a UX professional. There are University degrees, certifications, boot camps, books, and self-guided study materials. It has never been this easy to learn how to do the work most people associate with UX professionals.
So, why bother creating additional UX content? What is there to add to the already crowded field? In a word, clarity. Clarity around what happens when you actually land a job. Clarity around what types of people you are likely to encounter at work. Clarity around the skills you can pick up so that you can have better relationships with those people.
The reason to gain this clarity is because of the UX of YOU. The better your understanding of the people you’re working with, and the way they work, the more successful you can be. The work of UX – at least the stuff people think of automatically – is well-documented and readily coached. We have lots of standards and practices to look at as examples, but the hard work of advocating for the space to do “the right thing the right way” is something different. In order to do that, you have to understand the folks around you.
This site is dedicated to documenting as much as possible about the ways we work with other people in business, including leadership, marketing, technology, engineering, legal, and much more. The goal of this site is to give you a view into how you as a UX professional can best work with your partners. This also benefits you if you are leading or growing a UX team, or even if you are responsible for advocating for UX in your organization.
Stay tuned for upcoming updates on how UX can work with the rest of the business world to get real results. Together we will uncover “The Rest of UX.”