{"id":4161,"date":"2020-07-21T04:07:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2020.minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=4161"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:37:35","slug":"strategic-chaos-ux-design-in-the-wild-is-messy-and-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2020\/session\/strategic-chaos-ux-design-in-the-wild-is-messy-and-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic chaos: UX design in the wild is messy. And beautiful."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In college I was told that I would never cut it as a graphic designer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By. My. College. Professor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet another teacher in college told me in my flash web development class that I would never make it as a web developer. (Yes, flash).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So was I really just THAT bad at both design and development in 2001? Well, maybe. Or was it that they didn&#8217;t understand why I couldn&#8217;t&#8211;and even flat out refused to&#8211;focus my studies on a single design medium or specialized skill?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward to today, and the very thing that I was downgraded on has become the key to my success as a UX lead working on multi million dollar software and platforms. Not to mention teaching UX design and web development at the same university 15 years later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And flash is dead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline slide-button is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/speakerdeck.com\/tapps\/strategic-chaos-ux-design-in-the-wild-is-messy-and-beautiful-2020\" style=\"border-radius:4px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Session Slides<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline slide-button is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ihQgoP7wJf8?t=1310\" style=\"border-radius:4px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Session Video<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In college I was told that I would never cut it as a graphic designer.&nbsp; By. My. College. Professor.&nbsp; And yet another teacher in college told me in my flash web development class that I would never make it as a web developer. (Yes, flash).&nbsp; So was I really just THAT bad at both design &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/minneapolis.wordcamp.org\/2020\/session\/strategic-chaos-ux-design-in-the-wild-is-messy-and-beautiful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strategic chaos: UX design in the wild is messy. 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