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055: How to Get Your Foot in the Door with Andy Budd

User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth

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How Critical Is Education to Landing a Great Job in UX?

How important or how critical is education, a college degree, certification, courses, et cetera, to actually landing a really great job in UX? I think you can get a huge amount of knowledge out of universities. A lot of the best people are self taught because a lot of the university courses in design UX products are pretty poor. But that's not to say that education isn't important. You've got to work hard. It's not a case of just going to university and then pouring knowledge into you. And if you spent three years in a university degree, you probably learn a bunch of stuff. But what you will have is four, five or six projects. The key

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