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Becoming a UX Professional: Lessons learned
May 7, 2020 at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Location: | RSVP here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuf-qurjosGtXrpFcbvRZJj8CY0cq-rYKy |
Cost: | Free |
Presenter
Rock Leung, UX Research Lead, Samsung R&D Canada
Abstract
If you’re considering a UX career, you may be wondering how your graduate school training and experience will help you professionally down the road. You may be asking: What job is suitable for me? What do UX teams look for? What skills are transferable to a UX job? What else do I need to learn?
Rock was asking these same questions 10 years ago during his doctoral program at the University of British Columbia. In this talk, he will share three lessons he learned in grad school, and three lessons learned afterward, which have helped him start a UX research career and continue growing. He’ll talk about how important analytical skills, relevant experience, and emotional intelligence are for UX professionals.
Biography
Rock Leung is currently a UX Research Lead at Samsung R&D Canada. He has conducted user research for a variety of companies including SAP. He has a Ph.D. in CS from the University of British Columbia, specializing in HCI research. His research on improving the learnability of mobile computing devices for older adults has been published in prominent journals and conferences.
Always looking for ways to support his local UX community, he is one of the organizers of the VanUE Meetup. Further, he helped found the Radical Research Summit, an annual one-day event for UX research practitioners and supporters, and was the organizing chair for 2018 and 2019. For more information, go to www.rockleung.com.
Presentation will be online, registration here:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYuf-qurjosGtXrpFcbvRZJj8CY0cq-rYKy