Is the Google UX Design Certificate worth it? Shane Hummus reviews the Coursera course, job prospects, portfolio building, and career potential. Your UX career guide!

A lot of user experience professionals who are active in our industry today have faced the question “How to build a UX portfolio if I have never worked in UX?” when starting their career. Let’s be ...

How can charts be made accessible to blind people? Is the latest mobile app navigable? How can one product serve both casual users and global enterprises? Laura C. Martini ’08 grapples with such ...

As a profession, “designer” is constantly evolving. Fifty years ago, chances are you’d either be a graphic designer, industrial designer, or furniture designer. In five decades, you might be an ...

A design degree is not mandatory for a UX career. Empathy and critical thinking are key. Foundational books and online courses are helpful. Practice on real problems and build a UX portfolio. Learn ...

If you enjoy intellectual challenges and designing experiences that impact millions of people, enterprise UX could be right for you. In 2005, YouTube was born, Google had just acquired Android, Yahoo!

Well-designed or distracting? These portfolios are bound to spark debate. When you first pull up the freelance designer Nick Jones’s personal website, it looks fairly normal: a subtle gray pattern ...