On June 19, 2012, designers from the bay area gathered at Jobvite HQ for the UX Resume and Portfolio Bootcamp. This session, Work by Design: How to Find the Job You Love, was presented by Coburn Hawk, director of user experience at Magento.
32. How good are you willing to have it?
the ancient Chinese curse...
33. the future of UX is still being written
you can be one of the authors
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Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
Illustrator, Fine Art, accidentally got into Films, Blew things up, rolled cars, general mayhem.\n\nNet Result: not happy. exited 1998 just in time for...\n
\nThe dotcom boom\n\nThere are a lot of different paths that lead to UX\n
\nThe dotcom boom\n\nThere are a lot of different paths that lead to UX\n
\nThe dotcom boom\n\nThere are a lot of different paths that lead to UX\n
\nThe dotcom boom\n\nThere are a lot of different paths that lead to UX\n
\nThe dotcom boom\n\nThere are a lot of different paths that lead to UX\n
Even when I got into tech, at the peak of the dotcom boom, what I thought was my dream job became a stack of worthless stock options and a security guard escorting the entire staff out of the building as the company folded and refused to pay our final paychecks.\n\n
Even when I got into tech, at the peak of the dotcom boom, what I thought was my dream job became a stack of worthless stock options and a security guard escorting the entire staff out of the building as the company folded and refused to pay our final paychecks.\n\n
Even when I got into tech, at the peak of the dotcom boom, what I thought was my dream job became a stack of worthless stock options and a security guard escorting the entire staff out of the building as the company folded and refused to pay our final paychecks.\n\n
The context for your job search can become that of a caveman hunting a bison.\nThe problem with acting out of survival is that, when you are hungry, you are willing to eat a coyote.\n\nContext is decisive.\n\n
Schematic and Jason Brush\n\n
Go to the white board, illustrate the trip to Philly...\n\n
Every great job is invented, not just once, but continually.\nWhat if the un-official title of everyone here was inventor?\nWhat if your job was to invent your job?\n\n\n
I decided a while ago to make innovation a signature move. This has some consequences: People don’t always like me.\nObstacles will arise – I get to choose how to address the obstacles. 9 times out of 10, I choose a big stupid smile. You can design who you are going to BE, your context, when things don’t go your way… and even when things go well.\n\n\n\n
Let people be partners in the solution you design (we did it)\nAllow your idea to be a seed, let it unfold the way it wants to.\n\nJohn Couch Aikido\n\n\n\n\n
Know what to do with failures. \nA good carpenter is not one who doesn’t make mistakes.\nA good carpenter knows what to do with their mistakes.\n\n\n\n
Put your ass on the line. Make promises. Take ownership, especially when you do NOT manage to deliver on those promises. Talk about doorface.\n\n\n\n\n
Everyone gets everything they ask for... be specific.\nBe willing to achieve your goals… and create bigger ones!\n\n\n\n
Everyone gets everything they ask for... be specific.\nBe willing to achieve your goals… and create bigger ones!\n\n\n\n