{"id":201,"date":"2021-06-10T07:34:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/?p=201"},"modified":"2021-07-01T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:28:54","slug":"growing-a-ux-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/learning\/growing-a-ux-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing a UX Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this white paper, HFI CEO Dr. Eric Schaffer talks about career paths and opportunities for UX professionals in the expanding UX field. With over 25 years as a thought leader in user experience design, and experience training thousands of UX professionals, Eric discusses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The ideal career and educational background for a UX professional<\/li><li>The importance of understanding UX strategy<\/li><li>The need to expand UX capability to work with advanced tools and knowledge management<\/li><li>The value of mentors<\/li><li>How companies evaluate candidates for UX jobs<\/li><li>The future of the UX field<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cThe UX field is a great place to be working. And it&#8217;s a place where we&#8217;re seeing tremendous growth. Currently, there may be 50,000 people globally who have any kind of serious capability in the field. But if you look at how many people you really need \u2014 you probably need about 7 million people doing UX work.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this white paper, HFI CEO Dr. Eric Schaffer talks about career paths and opportunities for UX professionals in the expanding UX field. With over 25 years as a thought leader in user experience design, and experience training thousands of UX professionals, Eric discusses: The ideal career and educational background for a UX professional The [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hfiinstitute.com\/circle-of-experience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}