Author: nwhysel@gmail.com
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The Occasional Mentor: More on the UI/UX Controversy, Learning UX, Hiring Designers and Hackathons
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR: A monthly column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in February. Why are UX advocates very picky about…
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The Occasional Mentor: On Constraints in Service Design and Hiring Freelancers
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR: A monthly column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in January. What Projects Did You Create in a…
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The Occasional Mentor: Happy New Year! Resolutions and Bad UX
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR: A monthly column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below is a question I answered in December (slow month) and an idea for…
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The Occasional Mentor: On UX and Journalism, Portfolios, Online Classes and … Pie?
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR: A monthly column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Hope you like it, but feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in September. Can a…
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The Occasional Mentor: On Data Science or UX and Getting Started
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR A monthly column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Hope you like it, but feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in August. Should I…
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The Occasional Mentor: On Computing Resources in Digital Humanities
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR A monthly-ish column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Hope you like it, but feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in July. What Should…
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The Occasional Mentor: On Data Science in UX, Content Strategy vs UX Writing and the Durability of Digital Humanities
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR A monthly(ish) column based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Hope you like it, but feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions I answered in June. How are…
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The Occasional Mentor: On UX Certificates vs UX Conferences
Is it helpful to get a UX certificate or go to a UX conference as a starting point for a college undergraduate who wants to work on UX later but has no experience yet? May 26, 2018 Conferences are a Great Way to Meet Real UX Designers I am going on be the contrarian and…
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The Occasional Mentor – May 2018
THE OCCASIONAL MENTOR I am rebranding my monthly column, The Occasional Mentor, based on questions I’ve answered on Quora, heard on Slack groups, and other career advice I’ve given over the prior month. Hope you like it, but feel free to challenge me in the comments, if you have a different experience. Below are questions…
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On Pricing Tables and Mysteriously Familiar Background Graphics
I answer questions about UX, Information Architecture and other topics on Quora. A selection of these answers will be reposted on Medium with occasional, minor editing for clarity. I took a break in from posting in January. Following are selected questions I answered in February. Should website homepages have a pricing table? February 23, 2018…