Professionalism Archives - Desi Reuben-Sealey, UXMC

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Is it OK to burn professional bridges?

Even though it depends on which bridge you may be burning I believe you should live by your professional principles most importantly. Sure some personal principles crossover but let’s call them professional principles for now. These are the principles that you live by, the principles that build or form your character. The things the people

Tough UX Challenges in User Experience you can overcome

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UX – 4 Tough Challenges in User Experience you can overcome

Ask anyone proficient in User Experience what they think the biggest challenge they face in their role is and you’ll get a myriad of different replies. User Experience of course focuses entirely on the user. Without the user, User Experience (UX) effectively becomes irrelevant. However with the insurmountable amount of products that are on sale today, they all have

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Beware of the “yes men” in your office

Beware of the yes men in your office! It doesn’t matter whether you run a large corporate organisation, a middle-sized company or a start-up, every company has them. Do you surround yourself with people known as “yes men”, “suck-ups” or “fawners”? This article may indeed be met with much antipathy, but let’s just push that aside

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How to break the office blame game mould

Blame culture is a description given to an organisation in which people are blamed for mistakes continually. That makes it very difficult to figure out how to break the office blame game mould. It’s human nature to want to assign blame. Since the dawn of time, we’ve assigned unseen causes to effects that we can’t