is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe, Design Chair at Wildcard and co-founder of Kidpost. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired by Etsy, Inc.), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children. Refer to the advertising and sponsorship page for inquiries.
+Should You Go to School for User Experience Design?
Over at Wired, writer Margaret Rhodes looks at the increasing number of vocational schools focused on teaching user experience design. She highlights programs at Center Centre, General Assembly and The Savannah College of Art and Design, among others. On the subject of “keeping curriculums relevant to a market that’s evolving faster than ever,” she quoted this comment from yours truly:
That is exactly the most difficult thing about being in UX design… The technology is changing, and it changes every 5 to 7 years, that’s the cycle where things get radically different. We’re completing the mobile cycle and moving into this new cycle of chatbots, AI, conversational interfaces.
Read the full article at wired.com.
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