The self-contradictory nature of the product design world irks me so.

When I was first starting out — I was constantly told you need a design portfolio. But because I was juggling school, job applications, and extra-curriculars such as founding my own student-choir and trying to fit in with SKULE (name of the community at my school), I didn’t have time to do DEEP UX Research. So all I ever since was basic UX Research vis-a-vis some usability testing.

I kept getting rejections because I never had detailed half-hour long case-studies written up about my work, but I did have good work and interesting work. Not your average ho-hum “calendar app” or what-have you.

So now after a few years of working on that portfolio of mine, I have more than 1 half-hour case-study with good UX Research and then see an article like this.

It pisses me off you know that?

This industry needs to do a better job of setting standards and expectations and have more design-centric recruiters all along the hiring pipeline.

Because otherwise, the hiring realm of UX will remain as messy, full of contradictions, double-standards, hypocrisies, and plain annoyances that waste people so much time.

You tell people to do X, they do X, but then now you’re saying X doesn’t matter.

You wanna know something, everything you said in this article is what Iw as saying 4 years ago, but nobody cared because I was just a University student.