Posted in design, education, user experience on March 3rd, 2011 Comments? »
When I was studying the HCI course at UCL, we had a module known as “Design Tools and Techniques” (it’s now been changed/modified to “Design Practice”), which provided an overview of design that looked like this: The Design Problem Requirements, Scenarios & Task Analysis Prototyping Sketching Design Judgements Visual Design Visual Communication Interfaces Personas If [...]
Posted in education, events, user experience on February 11th, 2011 Comments? »
This is a long overdue post that should have gone out a week ago, but I guess it’s better late than never. Why? I’ve been keen on improving my presentation skills (I hear it’s a good thing for UX designers), so I jumped at the chance to present when Lee McIvor announced LightingUX needed some [...]
Posted in design, education, user experience on December 13th, 2010 Comments? »
The subject of design education, UX careers, and mentoring has been on my mind a lot lately. It wasn’t long ago that I was looking for UX job and I’ve learnt a lot in the process, not to mention the experience I’m gaining on the job right now. In addition, there’s been a lot of [...]
Posted in education, user experience on November 16th, 2010 Comments? »
After two months of looking, I’ve finally found an opportunity to work in the user experience field as an Information Architect (my previous role was Lead Developer, although I did quite a lot of UX there as well as in the previous company). It was certainly the right combination of my previous skills and experience [...]
Posted in careers, culture, education on October 11th, 2009 Comments? »
I feel I’ve had a lack of education, coming from a developing nation in the Far East. I wish I had been enrolled in a school that actually taught history and geography in all its wonderful richness. I don’t care so much about math because I feel it’s hard to screw up math because it [...]
Posted in careers, education on February 17th, 2009 Comments Off
This is a response to Penelope’s post about how you shouldn’t dodge the recession with grad school. But before I go on, I want to state that I am in grad school, but I made my decision before the recession came. So for those of us who are already in grad school – this probably [...]
Posted in academia, careers, education, goals, graduate school, social media, workplace on December 8th, 2008 Comments Off
I admit – I feel a bit lost being a full-time student, after being in employment for the last 6 years. I no longer have paid projects to work on, a company vision to fulfil, or quarterly performance reviews. At the same time, I don’t have to worry about promotion or about getting a bonus. [...]