Is sharing pay information a good idea? What happens when companies share more about how they pay their people? So-called pay transparency refers to company policies that encourage the sharing of compensation-related information, such as salary ranges, pay scales, and compensation structures. This information may be supplied to current employees, job candidates, or the public.
Is there a misalignment in skills in the UX profession? Specifically, when UX managers are hiring, is there a misalignment in what applicants and current practitioners report doing and the skills managers need? In a previous article, we did a deep dive into what UX practitioners reported doing in the 2024 UXPA salary survey, tracking
Did the student write the paper with AI? Did the teacher review the paper with AI? Did the respondent use AI to answer the survey? Did the researcher use AI to detect responses that were AI generated? Was this article written with AI? Was the LinkedIn post about this article written with AI? There’s hardly
It seems like 2024 was filled with nonstop bad news about UX job losses and difficult job searches. Layoffs in tech are nothing new. What seems to have been different in the past two years has been the volume of layoffs across so many companies and how few new jobs were posted. Having been in
What is the value of UX certification? How do you learn the methods UX professionals use? A few university programs offer courses in UX or related fields. Certainly, nothing beats hands-on experience conducting your own usability test on a prototype, running a survey, and interviewing stakeholders. But how do you demonstrate to others (employers in
What we do on the job can change. Jobs change and job titles change. Sometimes the titles change more than the jobs. For example, what do you call someone who professionally creates software? One analysis shows that the most popular job title associated with this function has evolved from Computer Programmer in the 1980s, to
