Experience Required ─ How to Become a UX Leader Regardless of Your Role

For all the resources on great design, there’s almost nothing on how to be a great design professional. There is a lot of material on what it takes to create great products, there’s almost nothing on how to design the team that designs those products.

Drawing on the extensive experience of veteran UX strategist Robert Hoekman Jr and featuring the insights of several prominent design leaders,Experience Required shows you how to succeed regardless of which side of the interview table you’re on or what you hope to accomplish next.

This book shows:

• design instructors what they should be teaching their students for team building
• students what to aspire to
• hiring managers what they should look for
• design directors what to expect from their teams and how to help them do it
• designers what they should be doing to be effective, to grow, to be happy, to be influential
• everyone involved that the team can do better, and how to make that happen

Robert Hoekman Jr is a prolific writer and veteran UX strategy consultant. He has written hundreds of articles and several books on design topics, includingDesigning the Obvious, Designing the Moment, and Web Anatomy (with Jared Spool). Robert has spoken to packed rooms at web conferences all over the world. He lives in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Learn more about him at www.rhjr.net.