10 sobering realities every brand-new UX designer needs to accept

Samuel Harper
UX Collective
Published in
32 min readAug 14, 2020

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Sorry to break it to you, but you will not be working here upon graduation from your bootcamp. Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

User experience design (or UX design, for short) is a field that is being touted left and right as one of the hot new fields to break into, and it will probably attract a surge of more people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you are in an unrelated field and are tired of your job and career prospects, or you are in college and aiming for a job in UX design upon…

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