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I'm sorry, but as someone who does UX full-time, I couldn't disagree more. I used to be a developer who felt the same way. All of this stuff is just common sen
by jeremyt 14y ago
I'm sorry, but as someone who does UX full-time, I couldn't disagree more.
I used to be a developer who felt the same way. All of this stuff is just common sense. Then, I decided to do a career transition into full-time UX and spent a year studying intensely.
Now, I look back on my old self and laugh. Practically everything was wrong, and some things were horrifically wrong. There's just too much to think about and too many fundamental concepts that you must be aware of to do good UX (Gestalt principles, color theory, design patterns, etc.)
The way I feel about this post is about the same as developers out there feel when your uncle says "How hard can web development be? My nephew made me a website in Wordpress in a couple of weeks"
- mrgreenfur 14y agoTotally agree here. There's a lot of domain knowledge that goes into making things easy to use/learn. The entire goal of UX is to make it seem simple -- but PRODUCING something simple isn't!
- mheathr 14y agoSince you transitioned into full-time UX starting as a developer originally, I am curious as to what resources you utilized to improve your knowledge of good UX principles.
- jeremyt 14y agoI've been meaning to write a blog post on it, but you know how it goes. Never enough time. Basically, it comes down to study + experience. But study is absolutely a necessary prerequisite; otherwise you have no criteria to decide what went wrong when something fails. I did a post here about some books that I found useful http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/books-on-user-experience-and-user-interface-design http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/books-on-user-experience-... I basically spent a year working part-time and studying part-time. I read every UX book, article, and website that I could find, and then I got experience by offering to do a heuristic analysis for startups on the Washington DC hacker news list for $20 per hour. This kind of thing: http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/watchparty-tv-a-usability-analysis http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/watchparty-tv-a-usability...