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10 Directions to Take Your UX Career

A career in UX can take many paths — here are a few routes to consider.

Danny Sapio
UX Collective
11 min readOct 19, 2020

arrows pointing in many directions

This post was guest written by Shannon Groom, Senior UX Designer.

I stumbled into UX several years ago after working in a combination of communication, marketing, and graphic design roles. I was unhappy in my position at the time, and I had filled my Google search history with sad entries like “how to find your passion,” “does anyone like their job?” and “where do I belong?”. After endless googling, I found some advice that resonated with me, and I still 100% agree with — work for a company about which you are genuinely passionate.

This was the best, most-actionable career advice I had ever received and led me to search through the apps on my phone. Those apps represented the brands that I respected the most as I allowed them real estate in my hand every day. I opened a tab for every company and scoured their job openings. I learned two things while doing this: One, every company was unfortunately located in Palo Alto, very far from my home in the Midwest. Two, many companies had openings for a UX Designer, so out of curiosity, I googled what that meant.

Imagine joyous music and light shining out from my Macbook while I read description after description of the field of UX. I think I…

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