[OPLINLIST] FREE WEBINAR TODAY AT NOON EDT UXconnect: Making More UX Designers: Practical UX Apprenticeship

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Note: the webinar will be archived on the UXConnect site after the live presentation: http://uxconnect.wordpress.com/.


Making More UX Designers: Practical UX Apprenticeship
by Fred Beecher
March 3, 2014 at noon EDT

To attend the talk live: https://kentedu.webex.com/kentedu/j.php?MTID=m7ac2032c91ed34834ced3d14cef28191​  ​

The demand for user experience designers has skyrocketed. Interest in UX as a career has soared along with that demand. Every UX designer gets asked how to get into the career, but the sad fact is that there’s no real answer to that question. Although demand is high, that demand is only for designers with 2-3 years of experience or more. There are simply not enough experienced designers to fill these positions, and this experience gap is a barrier to offering potential designers a consistent path from interest to employment. Many have observed that design is a craft… How do you learn a craft? Education and practice. Apprenticeship is a model that fits that bill well, and during the summer and fall of 2013 The Nerdery’s UX team put it into practice. I want to share our program’s successes and failures, our challenges and solutions, and some of the nitty-gritty details that made it go. The goal of this presentation is to make it easier for UX teams in other organizations to implement their own apprenticeship programs, which will ultimately make it easier for interested, talented, and passionate people to become UX designers.

About Fred
Fred Beecher has been working in User Experience since 1998. In that time he’s seen UX mature from a field struggling to prove its value to one driving an explosion of innovation and economic growth. To help feed the ever-increasing demand this explosion has sparked, Fred designed and implemented the UX apprenticeship program he currently manages at The Nerdery in Minneapolis, MN. Fred is an established contributor in the UX world. In 2007, he authored the first official Axure training program, which he ran until 2012. He has written numerous articles and blog posts on prototyping, iterative design, and UX career development, and he has spoken on these topics at design conferences worldwide. (credit: Boxes and Arrows for this bio. http://boxesandarrows.com/author/fred_beecher/)​






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David B. Robins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Kent State University
Information Architecture & Knowledge Management
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310T Library
Kent, OH 44242-0001
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