How to be a user experience designer without losing your soul

Every designer worries about being a slave to the corporate fat cats, but if you focus on helping people with their problems, you can avoid eternal damnation and sleep a little better at night.

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1. benjystanton
4. How to be a UX designer without losing your soul
5. DISCLAIMER
9. Less design jargon bullshit
10. –http://tinyurl.com/k36qx3x “Everything we do is about growing value. We do it through a holistic approach called “Fusing Business Logic with Brand Magic” ”
11. More helping people
12. UX!
13. What is UX?
14. {insert bad analogy here}
16. – @uivsux “UI is web 2.0 stuff, UX is another ketchup bottle”
17. I’m interested in the little details
26. design + content = helping people
30. S ,
31. This playground is unsupervised. Only you know your child’s ability. It is your responsibility to make sure they play safely.
32. This playground is unsupervised Please make sure your kids play safely
33. Dark patterns
37. Tools
38. –Bollocks “A bad workman blames his tools.”
39. –Benjy “A bad workmaner doesn’t invest in his their tools.”
40. Sketch
41. iA Writer
42. Atom
43. GitHub
44. Chrome
45. Less “design”, more everything else
46. Spend less time in Photoshop
47. spend more time writing content
48. more time 
 in the browser 
 (or at the printers)
49. more time understanding users
51. Usability test homework:
52. Observe somebody using your design
53. Accessibility homework:
54. Learn to use assistive tech e.g. VoiceOver for Mac or NVDA for Windows Refer to http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist
55. Accessibility Fails http://aduggin.github.io/accessibility-fails/
56. –Government Digital Service “Do the hard work to make it simple.”
57. My top tips to help you not lose your soul * may not actually help your soul *
58. 1. Care about the little details 2. Get the right tools for the job 3. Fight for the user!
59. Thanks benjystanton