In this episode The Team Interviews UX Designer Lauren DeMarks! Lauren talks about her time as a design student, intern, and Senior UX Designer.
Show Notes:
Working as a designer in a very specific niche and how I adjusted out of school
- apprehensive about diving right into edtech right out of college because it sounded kind of limiting on its face, but really it’s been a lot of fun
- also probably more common for designers to see than they think
- It’s also just the reality for any designer that ends up being an in-house designer
- They’re going to have to become familiar with a specific vertical or industry
- Young designers could just kind of naturally gravitate toward the more sexy-sounding agency jobs but there’s a lot out there outside of that!
A few questions for Lauren:
Topic: being ok with going into a very niche career right out of school?
- Introduce yourself!
- How did you find this job? Is this your first job?
- How do you build and maintain excitement about working within a specific industry—especially one you didn't expect to be working in?
- How did you adjust to working within a niche? What did you have to do to adjust in your role that you might not have expected when you got into edtech?
- How and what skills can transfer from one industry to another? How do I communicate and show those skills to future employers?
Host, Producer, & Editor - Mark Cela
Host, Director, & Script Writer - Kristen Pericleous
Host, Social Media Manager, Social Media Content Creator, & Editor - Dan Lawson
