{"id":441,"date":"2007-01-04T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/441"},"modified":"2007-01-04T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T16:48:51","slug":"what-kind-of-user-experience-professional-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/441","title":{"rendered":"What kind of User Experience Professional am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friend and colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/agileproductdesign.com\">Jeff Patton<\/a> floated an idea a few weeks ago around the thought that there are 3 types of User Experience Professionals: <a href=\"http:\/\/agileproductdesign.com\/blog\/before_during_and_after.html\">Before-, During-, and After-People<\/a>. I think this is a brilliant way to characterize UXers&#8230;simple and to the point, with no big-giant-confusing-wordiness. Of course, all the qualities of these different types of people should exist in every User Experience Pro, but naturally we&#8217;ve all got our strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n<p>So what kind of User Experience Professional am I? In true self-report form, I&#8217;ll this is how I categorize myself at this very moment:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image447\" alt=\"before1.png\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/before1.png\" \/><\/center>It&#8217;s important to note, though, that I don&#8217;t intend for my pie to look like that forever. I&#8217;ve got big goals for my talents, and most of these goals reside in the &#8220;During-people&#8221; stage. As of now, I&#8217;ve got alright Graphic Design skills, but I can tell that they&#8217;re still somewhat raw. One day, I hope my pie looks more like this: <center><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image446\" alt=\"after.png\" src=\"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/after.png\" \/><\/center>Of course I think the &#8220;After-people&#8221; part of UX work is important, and I&#8217;m pretty highly trained in that area, but I just don&#8217;t find it all that interesting. I really enjoy being part of the Design side of UX, as opposed to Evaluation. But that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n<p>Hey all my User Experience friends out there. What does your pie look like? What would you like it to look like? Oh yeah, and, what do <em>you<\/em> think my pie looks like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend and colleague Jeff Patton floated an idea a few weeks ago around the thought that there are 3 types of User Experience Professionals: Before-, During-, and After-People. I think this is a brilliant way to characterize UXers&#8230;simple and to the point, with no big-giant-confusing-wordiness. Of course, all the qualities of these different types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,2,21,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile-development","category-design","category-hci-topic","category-professional","category-technology","category-thoughtworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}