So I’m seeing a nice little Twitter spike about my latest UXmatters article “8 Things You Should Be Doing In Your UX Practice, But Probably Aren’t.”
It was a column borne of equal parts desperation and writers’ block. Then I remembered how much mileage Cracked.com gets out of the “X Things” format, and decided to try a UX-specific version. You take your inspiration where you can get it, right? Honest truth, I had low expectations for myself.
The funny thing was when I finished it, I realized that the article didn’t actively suck. In fact it was kinda decent. Of course, it helped that I had some good advice and suggestions from Susan Hura, John Rhodes, and Dan Szuc. But no one said I couldn’t turn to friends/colleagues/wife for a little inspiration.
So here’s a little taste of the article; for more go to the site and check it out yourself. Quoting me:
…here are 8 things you should be doing to improve and grow in your professional practice, but that you’re probably not doing—or not doing enough:
- Communicate simply
- Read, read, read
- Pick a new UX tool and experiment with it
- Hold a UX stand-down and operational review
- Stretch yourself outside of user experience
- Think about your UX career path
- Repurpose your UX assets
- Depart from script on user research visits
I hope you enjoy the article, and feel free to comment either here or at UXmatters if you have more things to suggest.
8 Things You Should Be Doing In Your Personal UX Practice… :: ? Paul Sherman
