User Experience Professionals are Here to Stay

I’ve decided to pour through my Gmail account to delete and archive old emails that I’ve been too busy to move from my inbox. Sure, I really don’t have to perform this task when I can just archive everything, but I’m pretty anal about categorizing my emails, even if I am not prompt at performing the task.

Today I stumbled across an email a colleague of mine sent out last July. He referred to a YouTube video that highlighted MS Vista’s speech recognition. All I can say is that while it performs admirably at times, quite a few times I found the video both painful and funny to watch (see below). It really confirms that the usability and user experience professions are here to stay.


Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

[Runtime: 10:33 | Please make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash installed on your computer to watch this video. To download it, please visit: http://www.adobe.com/]

- Hat Tip: Ari Weissman

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In your opinion, and because of your experience, how would you suggest that a person looking to add more UI/UX facets into their profession go about it? Because even if this is something that is here to stay, there would have to be a slew of jobs that are doing this in part where just a refinement in skills should be able to push into UI/UX right?

I think a lot of this can be learned on the job. There are a number of books and blogs I’d be happy to recommend you follow. Please understand that many UI/UX professionals do not follow a traditional path.



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