From Publisher to UX Researcher

I had a few different roles in my previous company including publisher, project manager and business analyst. I was often speaking to product users and practicing UX principles without realising that UX was an industry in its own right.

I think it brings together my skills and interests. I’m naturally analytic and also creative. I genuinely care about people, I care about details and about making things better.

UX brings elements of design, problem solving and human psychology together and it’s fascinating stuff.

I felt like I had some UX experience from my previous role but I had no official UX job title. I had been looking at UX jobs online and so much of it was off-putting because it sounded like you needed a million things.

I thought this course would help me get recognised as somebody with a certain level of skill in UX and differentiate me from other people applying for jobs. And it did.

I now work as a user experience researcher at a company called Sigma. It’s my job to plan and carry out various user engagement techniques and to communicate findings to clients and wider project teams. I also assist with expert reviews, helping to identify potential UX issues and opportunities.

Yes, I would tell them to go for it, I think it is very reasonably priced when you look at the value you get from the course.