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Welcome. :slight_smile: We ALL get imposter syndrome. See: Imposter syndrome

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Hello everyone! I am so excited to join this community :slight_smile:

Where in the world are you?
Dallas, Texas

What stage of your career are you at?
Moving out of the 3D industry, about to finish college, and wishing I had discovered UX earlier.

What are you current challenges?
Implementing creativity. I feel like I’m always left in the dust. I have fantastical visions but getting them out ends up falling short.

What aspect/s of UX are passionate about?
Making an impact on peoples’ lives. If I can reduce stress and maximize enjoyment of others’ memories and experiences, that’s true fulfillment.

Cats or dogs?
Dogs

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Oh my goodness! I’d had never heard of Impostor Syndrome until this. I thought I was alone in this. I’m glad I’m not the only one! I guess we’ll all have to get through it together

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Thank you for that article! I found great comfort in knowing that IS is actually a “thing” and it’s not just me. :sweat_smile:

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Isn’t this such an epiphany? Knowing that it was a thing that I didn’t suffer through alone was tremendously empowering to me.

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For sure! It changes everything!

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There’s also a great podcast I’ve been listening to called ‘The Creative Imposter’ - really gives you a boost in confidence when the imposter feeling gets a little overwhelming. I feel like there’s more people out there with it than without it! :slight_smile:

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Where in the world are you?
United Kingdom

What stage of your career are you at?
Currently a front-end developer looking to shift towards UX, if I’m lucky with my visa application, I’m going to study in Vancouver next year in the hopes of relocating over there.

What are you current challenges?
Aiming to put together a portfolio good enough that future potential employers can see my potential.

What aspect/s of UX are passionate about?
I currently work for a company that specialises in software solutions for the telecoms industry, as such, it’s a gold mine of finding ways to improve usability of various systems which leads me down the Interaction Design path.

Cats or dogs?
A tough question, but I think I’d go with cats, a cat would share my lack of enthusiasm for going for a walk at 6am in the rain unlike a dog.

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Hey Paul, welcome!

Vancouver sounds cool. Best of luck with the application.

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Fantastic reasoning!

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Okay, I can respond to a questionnaire (though I do better when it’s formatted as a proper survey), so:

Where in the world…: Damn good question. Right this hot second, my body is in Woods Hole on Cape Cod, MA. You thought maybe there was stability?

I’m at the delighted curmudgeon stage of my career. I’ve been working at UX since 1993 and I’ve done it all, made some of it up, and can’t wait to get to do more and learn more. 3 things I’m sure of (1) I am not a visual designer though I understand the decisions and results of it; (2) I am not a coder (unless you count HTML and CSS as code - and I don’t) but again,blah blah understand, blah blah decisions, etc. (3) I am a damn good UX professional. I can balance all those elements, empathize with the users, define and ask the question that’s playing hide and seek with the team and making everything Not Quite Right.

Mu current challenges are finding a way to settle down on a base location, get paid, and get to do more cool work.

I’m passionate about personae (I’m agin 'em…strongly.) They almost always lead to creating for the fiction rather than the human. They are a Tool To Do It Wrong. I’m passionate about numbers to be tested. Stop debating this, it’s the first thing that was Settled: It’s eight. Here’s a brief summary: (A) You can’t do a perfect UX, 80% is as good as it’s going to get; (B) Testing 8 will give you the same results statistically as testing 200. © You can stop talking now. You can find the original paper on Jakob’s website <nngroup.com> along with a mess of other research.

I prefer dogs. strongly. although I love cats…but dogs!

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Where in the world are you?
Fort Lauderdale

What stage of your career are you at?
Sr Product Designer specializing in eCommerce. I’ve worked in various contexts of retail, both brick/mortar and corporate. Some companies I’ve worked for have been Home Depot (print design), CompUSA (store layout design), Office Depot (Sr UI Designer and Creative Manager, and currently City Furniture (UI/UX for email).

What are you current challenges?
We have a new and rapidly expanding eCom team. Current challenges we face is operating at a faster rate than the rest of the company (our team mascot is the Tesla Roadster). My current challenge is creating a design system that is scalable for a growing team of designers who will soon be working remote in a year. Another challenge I have is having actual real world UX projects to work on. I feel I’ve been looked at mostly as a UI designer or “unicorn” most of my career, and I am intentionally injecting UX thinking into all projects I take on.

What aspect/s of UX are passionate about?
Research, architecture, systems, empathy, story boarding, user flows, exploring problems. I do love the visual design part of it, particularly great UI, but I’m getting increasingly nerdy about the UX side of things. I also love UX copywriting. I got my start as a marketing visual designer but I get bored of chasing after design trends all the time and I’m becoming more interested in solving problems.

Cats or dogs?
Both. My husband and I have 2 cats and 1 dog, all rescues.

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Hi everyone! Glad to be part of the community :slight_smile: I’m answering the questionnaire below.

  • Where in the world are you?
    I’m in Prague, Czech Republic. Greetings :wave:

  • What stage of your career are you at?
    I’m doing a career change. I began working as a graphic designer, but I’m now moving into UX.

  • What are your current challenges?
    I’m currently the only one doing UX at the company where I’m working at, which has a lot of benefits but also drawbacks, like teaching people what UX is.

  • What aspect/s of UX are passionate about?
    I found myself digging into emotional design and accessibility a lot. Everything is appealing right now as my knowledge about UX doesn’t go too far, but these two topics excite me much more.

  • Cats or dogs?
    Loyal dogs

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Hi Pamela

Welcome, this is a great community and resource for all things UX.

You’ll find so many Graphic Designers moving towards UX, and lots super information and stories.

I’ve been looking at these YouTube videos recently on design/ux/web etc. see below.

All the best, Paddy

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Hey @katie @currierart and @pameladodera – great to hear from you all. :slight_smile:

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Hi Paddy!

Thanks for the recommendations :slight_smile: I will take a look at those videos

Thank you, Hawk! :slight_smile:

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I’m very new to UX, I’m 2 months in to my UX/UI bootcamp and was turned on to this community. I’m looking forward to getting to know everyone a engage in a community that exists outside my class.

Where in the world are you?
Orange County, CA

What stage of your career are you at?
I’ve been a graphic designer for 13 years. New to UX.

What are you current challenges?
Seeing if I could or should do a career shift that is more about UX, or roll it in my current skill sets as a visual designer.

What aspect/s of UX are passionate about?
So, I joined my bootcamp because I thought I would be more interested in learning more about UI design and development…but we started with UX research and I found that I really loved researching problems, and then analyzing findings in order to figure out solutions to them. The idea of working to investigate problems and building something that helps solve them is proving to be very meaningful to me.

Cats or dogs?
For the most part, dogs.

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Hey Jason,
Great to hear from you. I’m glad you caught the UX bug.

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Thank you! I wish it happened sooner!

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