Chapter Resources > Part 1 (Chapters 1 – 4): 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
Eventually, as more content is added post-publication these chapters may be broken out into separate resource pages.
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
- Go Ahead and Accept that LinkedIn Connection Request (2017)
- UX on Twitter: Who tweets, what hashtags do they use, and what should you be doing? (2017)
Online Learning
- Review of Online Learning Courses (UXmatters, 2015)
Blogs
- Review of UX Blogs (Huffington Post, 2015)
- Alltop Collection of Popular Posts Across Blogs (many UX-oriented)
Conferences
- UX-oriented Conferences in 2016 (User Testing)
- Web Design Conferences Jan – June 2016 (includes some UX) (Smashing Magazine)
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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