UX jobs boring as shit
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- mg334
Here's mine.
- Length of time in UX-specific position(s): 10 years in which I've gone from hybrid UX / PM role, then a strategy /UX role, then purely UX Design position. Altogether been in marketing / interactive marketing since 2002.
- Your position: Associate UX Director
- Agency or In-House: Agency
- Time at company: 3 1/2 years
- Army of one or team oriented role: UX team of 7, which has gone down from our previous larger team of 25+ UX'ers. Company has changed a bit but our team is growing again and working wonderfully together given how busy we are.
- Types of projects you generally work on: For the past 3 1/2 years I've worked solely with a major national insurance company, mix of staff aug and consulting. Waterfall projects in early days supporting internal application design, then agile projects building new tools for agents, and a major customer-facing product purchase tool that I'm really excited to see launch soon. All projects involved conceptual design, detailed design, strategy, working with BA's, product owners, UIE's, creative, etc. Great people that I miss working with (moved on to other things and new projects last month.
Also now involved in business development and pitch work, I enjoy the hell out of all of that. We're getting heavy into personalization projects, which are new to me but an interesting challenge. Had some downtime lately so I've been building out a design system and pattern library for us in Sketch, learning about Google Venture Design Sprints to use in pitch prep and faster / lower budget projects. We're getting into VR projects and it's fun to learn from the couple of people who really know that stuff. Super excited to get into InVision Studio and make major improvements to our processes and quality of work.
- Culture, coworkers, access to training, career growth, etc: Company has changed a lot but our team is lean and full of positive people. Lots of opportunities to teach each other new things, pursue new ways of doing things, collaborate with creative, tech, content, etc. Work life balance is great, which makes it easier to be a suburban-living parent of two young kids. Company is laid back and we're all hungry for new business opportunities that are coming are way. That energy is contagious.
- Anything else worth mentioning: Like I said below, you have to enjoy solving problems regardless of what they are. Anyone looking to change the world on every project should find something else to do. I think it's like any creative endeavor - find the joy in solving the problem, learn along the way and hopefully your career will be full of great achievements that keep you employable and marketable to future companies.
- See post before this if you've got the page set to "New."mg33
- good to read this.notype
- Thanks no type. I'd love it if everyone talking here did this. It would certainly shed light on the disgruntled views.mg33
- The view isn’t disgruntled. Youre trying to say “its not the job, its you”. I have two years on you. I know its hard but just look at the work out there.cannonball1978