Sarah Doody gives her assessment of UX education, shares how she’s helping UXers to have brave career conversations, and what it’s really like being a creative entrepreneur.

Highlights include:

⭐ Is the lack of standards in UX education a good thing? ⭐ How do you help people to have brave career conversations? ⭐ Does having a strong vision blind you from our customers’ needs? ⭐ How do we help people to slow down and focus on problems first? ⭐ What framework have you used to understand your users better?

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Who is Sarah Doody?

Sarah is the Founder and CEO of Career Strategy Lab, the business she started in 2017 as a 45-minute lunch and learn, that has since grown into a leading career coaching company for user experience professionals.

By helping her clients to develop career skills and confidence, Sarah’s clients have secured jobs at companies including Google, Amazon, American Express, Home Depot, Harvard, Warner Brothers Entertainment and Salesforce.

Sarah has been invited to give talks and to teach workshops all over the world, including across the pond at UX London, at Start Con in Australia and at Productized in Portugal, to name a few.

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Find Sarah here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdoody/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahdoody Career Strategy Lab: https://www.uxportfolioformula.com/ Personal website: https://www.sarahdoody.com/

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