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[New UXB Article]

5 wrong reasons to start a UX career
The excitement of the new year brings many new opportunities - for many career changes and UX beginners, that means tapping into the design industry. 

There are plenty of good reasons to start a UX career, but can you guess the wrong ones?

[Read] 5 wrong reasons to start a UX career

One of the main takeaways is to go deeper in the motivations for a career change.

This isn't only necessary to give career transitioners the staying power needed for the long UX job search process, but it'll also come up in UX interviews and critical career conversations.

We recently published a few "wake up call" type of articles like Getting a UX Job: Do You Want it Bad Enough? or 4 Easy Steps to Get a UX job, based on the feedback we get from readers in our community and beyond.


We hope our new article article serves to help you reflect on the reasons that lead you to UX, because those reasons make all the difference in helping you continue your journey and make it in the industry.
[UX Courses: Pick of the Week]

Switch Careers: Transition to a Job In UX Design
Speaking of career change, there's a great Skillshare course by Carly Cunniff on how to transition into UX design. Carly is a senior UX manager at Amazon and shares her framework for transitioning into UX, which includes workshops on personal branding, portfolio building, and networking. Plus, if you sign up for the course with the UXB friend link, you'll get 14 days of Skillshare Premium for free.
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