Chapter Resources > Part 1 (Chapters 1 – 5): Establishing Your Foundation
This page covers all four chapters included in the first part of the book:
- Chapter 1: What is User Experience (UX)?
- Chapter 2: Your Career is Grounded in your Education
- Chapter 3: Never Stop Learning
- Chapter 4: Branding and Networking for Career Success
- Chapter 5: Critical Soft Skills
Thank you to Nick Gould and Dan Brown who enhanced Part 1 with their personal stories. Check out Dan’s latest book: Designing Together.
Cory’s related writing
- How I stay healthy and keep my work focus in Covid times
- In-person and remote interactions are not equal
- The burden of empathy: But I still choose it
- Think about more than just your users: Practice nice UX
- Go Ahead and Accept that LinkedIn Connection Request
- UX on Twitter: Who tweets, what hashtags do they use, and what should you be doing?
Online Learning
- Top 10 Online Learning Platforms (UX Planet)
- 11 Best Online Courses to Learn UX Design in 2022 (CareerFoundry)
- Review of Online Learning Courses (UXmatters)
- And… check out Cory’s courses on LinkedIn Learning!
Blogs
- Top UX Design Blogs to Educate and Inspire You (DesignLab)
- The Best UX Design Blogs (by contributor Emily Stevens, CareerFoundry)
- Top 18 UX blogs and resources to follow (User Testing)
Conferences
- The Best UX Research Conferences and Events (User Interviews)
- The Top UX Conferences to Attend (UXtweak)
- Upcoming UX Conferences to attend in 2023 (UXness)
- Upcoming UX Conferences 2023 (UIUXTrend)
Supportive Professional Organizations
- User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA)
- Interaction Design Association (IxDA)
- Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
- Customer Experience Professionals Association (CXPA)
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)
- Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA)
- Society for Technical Communication (STC)
- ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
- American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
- All sorts of local Meetups via meetup.com and elsewhere
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