How did you start you career in UX/UI? For me, I didn’t even know it existed until 3 years after becoming a Graphic Designer.

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I spent most of my career in web design and front-end development, where a lot of UX practices overlapped with it heavily (once it was more than just a buzzword).

My degree was also in Communication Design, which helped me not to be pigeonholed into the graphic side of design.

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I was in graphic design (mostly digital) for about 6 years before it came across my radar. I went to a meet up in 2017 where a UX designer from Google led an intro to UX workshop, and I left feeling like it was exactly where I wanted my career to go.

A year later I heard about a masters program and decided to pull the trigger. Really loving the change - especially talking with users and being involved in larger strategy.

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