The system being user-centered was the least important in their mind, and even that was generally boiled down to “looking nice,” which is not user-centered. The architects fundamentally wanted to build a system that was robust, scalable, and easy to maintain quickly. The in-road there was playing to their mindset. Most of the companies I have applied to havent responded at all and the few that have usually take several. I have only received one freelance writing assignment and one in-person interview that went nowhere.
Sigh.įrom my end, they saw UX as the lipstick they could just apply to the pigs they wanted to build. I have gone through job search sites such as Indeed, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor, as well as applied directly to the companies themselves. To them, UX was all about “looking pretty” (the visceral aspects of the user interface). So, they would pull these obscure edge cases out of thin air in conversations as a sort of trump card to any reasonable design recommendation. They had a ton of domain knowledge from years of experience. '.We were speaking different languages at different levels about different needs. 'While engineers hold the keys to feasibility and how the technology works, designers hold the keys to the customer/market need and principles toward a delightful user experience.' Well suited for when you need modern resume templates that wont come into contact with hiring systems.
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