#2 The current state of UX and why UXer is a superhero job with Darren Hood

So many new understandings and fields emerged from this two letter adventure called User experience. It is still constantly changing, sometimes for good and sometimes for not so good. If you want deeply to retrospect your moves and strategies as a UXer, there is no better person to guide you than the OG Darren Hood. A UXer since 1995, Darren had the beautiful chance of witnessing the evolution of UX. He has never hesitated to call out ineffective and misdirected UX practices. One of the current missions of Darren is to make budding UXers aware of the misinformation out there. This episode will help us understand the qualities and methods we should and should not imbibe to understand our users better. Time stamps - History of UX: a quick interesting timeline (1:59) | The current pitfalls in UX education (3:23) | Are UX jobs really booming? (6:02) | The true nature of a UX (12:38) | The pervasive nature of UX (17:10) | Why being a UXer is not just a job: risk mitigation and saving lives (19:21) | What is Lean UX: eliminating waste and moving with speed (27:31) | What has pop UX media made of lean UX (32:56) | Eliminating waste leads to speed (34:41) | UX the superhero job (38:27) | The costs of insincerity (46:36) | Leading your UX self-education: personalized learning network. (52:47) | Links discussed in the podcast - UX 2050: talk by Jakob Nielson on future of Jobs - https://www.nngroup.com/videos/ux-2050-keynote/ | Overcoming the whirlwinds of ux misinformation: talk by Darren Hood -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n47xgpdIgdg | If you want to know more about UX misdirection and misinformation - UX and the age of misinformation by Darren Hood: https://www.notion.so/Core-podcast-notes-0a28362690464bf5a0e6bef4fe6c638a | Overcoming UX misdirections by Darren hood: https://uxuncensored.medium.com/overcoming-ux-misdirection-e3efc7b47764