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UX Career Progression: Finding a Niche & Building a Personal Brand with Nick Finck
There are many things you learn as a UX designer that come from classrooms, articles, or books. This series covers UX career progression from the perspective of what is not yet covered in a book. In this first presentation of the series Nick Finck will talk about finding a niche in what you do within the field of UX and how to build a personal brand that can enable you to get the kinds of jobs and engagements you want as you grow your career.
Who: UW students in dub programs, HCDE, iSchool, MHCI+d, IxD, CSE, DMG, dxArts, BHI, etc.
Hosts: UX for dubbies and HCDE Graduate Student Association
Place: University of Washington, HUB, Room 145 (see map at right)
Date: May 3, 2014
Time: 2-4pm, the room is available for discussions and socializing until 5pm
FREE: FREE but students must register
Parking: Free on campus after 12pm on Saturdays, includes UW Garage. Please avoid emergency and handicapped parking areas.
Raffle: Will be giving away 2 tickets to MobileUXCamp!!
Bring: An open mind! Nick will supply the paper, pens, and post-it notes.
Resources:
Blog Post: "Starting a Career in User Experience Design" by Nick Finck
http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/starting_a_career_in_user_experience_design/
Book: "Design is a Job" by Mike Monteiro
http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job
Article: "The T-Model and Strategies for Hiring IA Practitioners" By Nathaniel Davis
Part 1: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/10/the-t-model-and-strategies-for-hiring-ia-practitioners-part-1.php
Part 2: http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2011/11/the-t-model-and-strategies-for-hiring-ia-practitioners-part-2.php
About Nick Finck, User Experience Toreador
Nick Finck is a user experience professional who has worked in the web industry for over a decade. He specializes in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research for web and mobile.
Nick has created web and mobile experiences for Fortune 500 companies including Adobe, Intel, REI, Boeing, Google, and Oprah.com. He lives and plays in Seattle, Washington, where he's the Senior Manager of User Experience at Amazon Web Services, a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud.
Prior to working at Amazon Nick was the Director of User Experience at a number of agencies including Ubermind, projekt202, and Deloitte Digital. Before that he was founder of Blue Flavor, a user experience consultancy that launched one of the very first web applications for the iPhone.
Nick was the publisher of Digital Web Magazine, an online publication for web professionals, for ten years. He is actively involved in the web community, helping as adviser to such events as SXSW Interactive, the Information Architecture Summit, WebVisions, and InfoCamp Seattle. Nick has also judged The Webby Awards and the SXSW Web Awards.
He has built a reputation as a community volunteer, promoting growth within the web industry both locally and abroad. You can find Nick giving workshops for leading organizations such as Microsoft, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Seattle Public Library. He has presented at most major conferences including SXSW, CHI, MIX, and more. Nick has also helped create an open source curriculum for web professionals and has lectured for and advised universities on their
About Amazon Web Services
Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services, Inc. began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. The ultimate benefit of cloud computing, and AWS, is the ability to leverage a new business model and turn capital infrastructure expenses into variable costs. Businesses no longer need to plan and procure servers and other IT resources weeks or months in advance. Using AWS, businesses can take advantage of Amazon's expertise and economies of scale to access resources when their business needs them, delivering results faster and at a lower cost. Today, Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of enterprise, government and startup customers businesses in 190 countries around the world. Amazon Web Services offers over 30 different services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). AWS services are available to customers from data center locations in the U.S., Brazil, Europe, Japan, Singapore and Australia.
About UX for dubbies
ASIS&T UW, HCDE GSA, and HCI+D have come together and we are pleased to announce UX for Dubbies, a series of student-coordinated hands-on UX skillshares and career-focused workshops for dub students.
About HCDE GSA
The HCDE Graduate Student Association are hosting this User Experience (UX) workshop with Nick Finck, the Senior Manager of User Experience at Amazon Web Services, UX Toreador, and runninger up for Seattle's Sexiest Geek (no joke.. well sorta)!
Cancellations
Thanks for canceling online if you can't show, to allow another dub student to attend the workshop.
Email hcdegsa@uw.edu if you have any questions about this event. Use #uxfordubbies to tweet during the event.
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LocationHusky Union Building, HUB, Room 145, University of Washington (View)
4001 E. Stevens Way NE
Seattle, WA 98195
United States
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