Sanjay Sathe     September 13th, 2015 at 5:14 pm

Hi ,

Greetings from India !

I have recently started business of IT education . I am going to show your video on UI / UX to the budding programmers which I find worth noticing.

Best Regards ,
Sanjay Sathe

Pune , India

Mike Locke     September 14th, 2015 at 12:43 pm

@Sanjay – Hi, yes feel free to share my videos as much as you like. Thx!

Juan Sidberry     September 14th, 2015 at 2:07 pm

Mike, a few things. First, another great video!

Second, I know you have heard this before: “Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing.” In other words we should not get distracted from the core things we are trying to accomplish. In most cases that is getting a job where we can use our skills in a fulfilling and meaningful way to earn money for ourselves and our families. If that is the main thing, what do we care what the job title is.

Another term comes to mind: if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck then it is probably a duck no matter what they call it. If we are doing UI/UX work (designing User Interfaces and figuring out user interaction & needs) but the title is “This” or “That” or “The Other Thing”, what do we care.

To end on a positive note: A Rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. This means, as above, stop sweating over titles and positions. Get the job you want, do it well, learn something new, and get paid. Getting the job and getting paid is just as sweet no matter if you are called a UI/UX Designer, Product Designer, Interaction Designer, Multi-Media Designer, Brand Engineer, whatever.

I think we as humans always like to get ourselves distracted from the main think. I don’t know why this is. But it is.

And you did answer the question. At least that is what i got out of what you said. So, as always, thanks for the guidance and advise and keeping us on-track.

Mike Locke     September 15th, 2015 at 11:59 am

@Juan – Good stuff, like how you put it. Yes, at the end of the day, a title is just the title. Call yourself whatever. But focus on the core and what you’re doing. ;)

bikeman     May 10th, 2016 at 4:05 am

Here in the UK we are increasingly seeing a separation of the UI and UX roles, with UX designers taking on UX research (personas, user stories, walktroughs etc) and UI designers concentrating on UI layout, visuals, interation etc.

Yasin Yazdan Ahmed     March 27th, 2017 at 1:13 pm

Hi Mike, will your complete training help anyone who has no idea about UI/UX to get a job . How should the prepare from your training course ?

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