“If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much.”
The UX Design Education Scam
A well written article by Andy Rutledge on the disservice universities and higher educations are doing to students going into user experience or web-related design. I would much rather hire someone self-taught and motivated to learn over someone who spent years learning out-dated methods and technology.
This article addresses the problem head-on, and I could not agree more. Read The UX Design Education Scam.
