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8 Simple Truths To Think About Before Getting Into UX Design
Get your head right before you take the jump
“You must want to be a butterfly so badly, you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.” (Sekou Andrews)
You’ve been keeping a keen eye on the UX/Product Design role for a while.
You’ve read a bunch of Medium articles and done lots of research on courses.
You decide to jump in and commit.
You pay for the in-classroom course.
One week in. “Shit, it feels like everyone else knows way more than me.”
One month in, “I’m exhausted.”
Finishing the course.“I’m buggered, anxious and excited. I’m ready to do this in the real world (I think).”
Three weeks after the course, “shit, getting a job is not as easy as I thought.”
You get the point.
It’s no walk in the park changing career into User Experience.
Here are seven simple truths to think about before getting into UX/Product Design →
(caveat: this comes from my experience as someone who had no background in experience design or digital stuff before I started.)
1. You might love-hate it (for a bit)
“Being supper uncomfortable and drinking too much coffee makes me twitchy”
It will screw with your head. Jumping into a new world freaked me out at first, it all felt so foreign. I never got bored, but I got bloody tired having to keep my brain in gear all the time.
It will stress you out being in this new world, and if you’re like me, you’ll drink too much coffee and have your monkey mind overthinking everything.
The point: Whatever will be, will be. Let it happen and don’t worry about it too much. This is the way it’ll be getting going. It’ll give you a few grey hairs and a few sleepless nights. Suck it up and enjoy it.
