With 12 years experience as a UX designer, I’ve found that the best UX designers I’ve worked with usually had backgrounds and careers from a non-UX field before

With 12 years experience as a UX designer, I’ve found that the best UX designers I’ve worked with usually had backgrounds and careers from a non-UX field before UX. Often academic backgrounds, such as anthropology, for example, and had at least some graduate degree. They understood actual primary research and applied it to their design process, and the results spoke for themselves. Once UX became something you could enter from undergraduate studies (guilty as charged), or no degree at all, you end up with a lot of UX designers who lack those skills. And unless you are lucky enough to work with people who have those skills (as I was) or are a particularly motivated autodidact, you end up with articles like this.