Rebecca L.
About me
| Rebecca L. | |
| Psychology | |
| Psychology | |
| Undergraduate | |
| Goodricke | |
| 2015 | |
| United Kingdom |
My employment
| User Experience Practitioner | |
| SimpleUsability ltd. | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Science and research | |
| Small business (0-49 employees) | |
| 2015 |
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A day in the life of a User Experience Practitioner in the United Kingdom
Human behavior, interaction and behavioral decision making are fundamental principles of life.
My career goals when I graduated
1. Career progression
2. An interesting and meaningful career
Courses taken since graduation
Attended NUX talks and networking events to learn more about new methodologies and technology.
How my studies have helped my career
Studying psychology allowed me to learn how to run and report my own experiments and gave me the skills I needed in order to pursue a career in user experience.
Where I hope to be in 5 years
Senior UX Practitioner or within customer experience
My advice to students considering work
1. Start looking and applying early!
2. Don't panic! - working full time is hard work, don't rush into a job for the sake of having a job.
3. Make yourself stand out from the crowd - its a competitive world!
4. Money isn't everything (and often doesn't come until you've had a lot of training/experience)- choose a job you love.
What I do
UX practitioners observe real people using websites to work out where we can improve the usability and experience of using the site.
Skills I use and how I developed them
Microsoft office, statistics, neuroimaging, video editing, presentation skills, resilience, eyetracking, patience..
What I like most
Having a big project to get my teeth into and seeing the project through from start all the way to being at the cutting edge of a website that's about to be released to the public.
What surprised me most
How much research and continuous learning and development is required as part of having a full time job in order to keep up to date with the constantly evolving digital world.
Next steps...
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