by Chris Kiess | Sep 30, 2018 | UX Careers
Originally published on Medium I have often wondered what drives people to become UX designers and why anyone in their right mind would pursue a career in this profession. When I step back and look at the overall challenges and hurdles, the trials and tribulations of...
by Chris Kiess | Sep 5, 2018 | UX Careers
Originally published on medium.com I have had something of an obsession with service design in recent years — especially as it relates to shopping and the checkout process at nearly any store to include e-commerce. If there is a single area where good service design...
by Chris Kiess | Feb 9, 2018 | Musings on Life, UX Careers
A few years back, I developed this obsession with my career and my life. Perhaps, it was a bit of existential angst or maybe I had been reading too many self-help books. I’m not sure. But, several times (or sometimes more often) each year, I would begin grappling with...
by Chris Kiess | Oct 24, 2017 | Office Life, UX Careers
This article was originally published on LinkedIn. I’ve lost track of the number of jobs I’ve had over my lifetime. If I could sit down and count them all, it could easily be more than fifty — I’m not exactly sure. But, I’d wager I have had a job for each year of my...
by Chris Kiess | Oct 17, 2017 | User Experience / UX, UX Careers
This article was originally posted on Medium. I’ve lost count of the number of UX interviews I have sat through over the past eight or nine months. The number has to be close to a hundred or more. 2017 has been a huge hiring year for my group here at Walgreen’s as we...
by Chris Kiess | Aug 21, 2014 | User Experience / UX, UX Careers, Words
I recently happened upon an article published via LinkedIn that, while not entirely representative of job recruiters as a profession, did indirectly epitomize the underbelly of the recruiting process. The article is entitled “The Recruiter Never Called Me Back”...
