How to Get a UX Design Job: Create a compelling portfolio, submit a stand-out application, and ace the interview to land your user experience dream job

As a long independent UX design trainer and consultant, I plan to never interview for a UX job again—a fact that gives me much joy. However, many who attend my workshops are thinking about their next job—or are looking for advice for breaking into the field. In fact, "How do I get my first UX job" is among the most frequent questions I receive—and one of the most difficult to answer. I have my personal stories and observation-based advice, but I've been looking for a more practical, comprehensive answer.With Lisa's book, I have found a better answer. Her book is comprehensive and well thought through and based on her substantial experience in training and mentoring junior designers. Her best idea: getting hired for a UX job—is a UX project itself as the same design thinking applies. Consider those in the hiring process to be your target users that you need to design a great UX for. Apply your design analysis, UX thinking, and attention to detail to the entire experience, as you would for any other project.Lisa covers all the bases, including understanding recruiters and interviewers, parsing the job postings, building your resume and portfolio, interviewing (with common UX interview questions gleamed from sources like Glassdoor--very helpful!), and designing your social media presence—and even overlooked details like writing effective cover letters. She gives both good and bad examples. I found most of Lisa's advice solid—but even those few times that I didn't completely agree, I found her perspective useful in helping me think differently.If you are looking for your next UX job, reading Lisa Murnan's How to Get a UX Design Job is time well spent.

Lisa draws on her long career in UX to give the reader a clear view of what the ux field is like and what you need to get a job.Highly recommended.

Great book that seemed to speak directly to me. Been a developer for most of my career and transitioned to UX. Really liked her ideas and approach to preparing for interviews, portfolio, etc... Made sense to me and encouraged me with her ideas in pursuing this new UX career.

I just got my masters in HCI and job searching has been stressful. After reading this book I realized why! My resume, online portfolios and even my linkedin needed work. It even helps with knowing what to say during interviews. I advise reading this book for anyone looking for a UX Design job at any experience level!

If you are new to UX and looking out for a design job, then its a great resource. I have read it 3x and will read again. Thanks, Lisa.

Especially good for junior designers

This book is a fantastic resource for anyone looking to land their dream UX role. Though it focuses specifically on the job search aspect, I also found it to be quite informative about many UX processes in general (turns out you can apply the same UX thinking to your job hunt!).As a UI designer that is looking to learn more about UX, this book gave me a great overview of what I should expect to have in a successful resume and portfolio to get noticed by hiring professionals. I especially loved that most of the information was extremely practical and experience-based, and could be applied to any career search - not just UX. There was everything from the correct way to format a resume, how to bolster your social media presence, the most effective ways to share a portfolio, you name it. I consider myself to be pretty confident in my job searching abilities but I was taken by surprise at just how much I didn't know. I came away with many new and useful tips.Lisa's writing style is also very humorous and engaging. I appreciate her use of real-world examples. This book is truly crammed full of useful information for anyone looking to market their UX skills to the world. Highly recommend!

As a recent college graduate, now graphic designer, looking to become a UX designer, I found this to be helpful to know what I should be learning and how to compete in the UX world.

I loved the book, specially for me that is changing for an UX career, sometimes we get lost. This book has great insights, it explains in a logical way and gave great tips to start on the UX field.