thanks so much for your perspective. i'm glad i didn't have any particular expectations going into UX, except for work-life balance, a better salary than my last job, and a higher chance for working remote. Every limitation you described is perfect for me as someone who thrives with rules and expectations in place.

I am a first time user and I got sent 15k but they said I had to pay 1k fee ?

Do you have these docs published somewhere Travis?

Thanks for the insight. You provide a lot of good points in this video. Good luck on your journey.

Thanks for the series. Great job.

Thank you for making this video!!

You're surprised that a "user research" is all about research and not coming up with new ideas?...... The problem with most of you "I want to be creative" is the fact that you're living in a dream world of pre-Elon Twitter, where you want to sip lattes at 9am, and have cold pressed juices in the afternoon with a free lunch, clock out at 5, and complain that you don't have any stake in the company.. Reality check son.

Is there any solution to this problem?

This video is awesome bro

Thank you!

I thought this was a design course not on boarding series

Discovery research

i did the googe course. But after finishing i didnt feel like i knew enough. eventually i realized what the reality of ux design really is. It involves customer service skills and being the center of attention and explaining things to others. Thats not my forte.

Watching this 2 years later but such great information. Thank you. I hope you keep making more videos.

Hi, the google form link isn't working

tldr, you’re a mercenary not a missionary.

Great content 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Damn, this was awesome man!

I guess I was lucky to be one of the first UX designers and got to work on the cutting edge, gaining several patents through my UX design concepts.

Great videos Travis 👍. It will be helpful if you share Figma link into this video Thanks.

Very Good Video! You're correct that UX is saturated with well worn patterns so much that its boring now. The real exciting UX stuff will be in the new fields that the new technologies are opening up. However, to work in this emerging media will require animation skill, programming skill, etc which UX people typically don't have. Going forward, I can see a need to create new tools that will enable the next evolution of UX people to work in these new spaces. There could be a lot of value in that.

I guess I wouldn't have quit it if I were you.

Thank you so much for the series

Awesome tutorial thank you. Is binance also a centralized platform?

Love it when you said; Fk you money.

Thank you because I’ve been looking into this

Well said! Web3 represents the next phase of how the internet should operate, and there's no turning back. Projects like @ArcanaNetwork are pivotal in making the transition from Web2 to Web3 seamless for both developers and users. It's only a matter of time before widespread adoption takes place!

Thanks a lot

The roadmap one is so true. Management can say they're open to ideas all they want but at the end of the day, they set the vision, they set the requirements, they only push instructions downward through the org. There is no real time & place that allows conversation to happen from down to up, or even meet halfway. They too are constrained by parent companies, budgets, and company culture when it comes to flexibility and testing. More often than not, innovation is not something that will be the focus until it becomes a problem.

Great video! Some key points were highlighted that I hadn't heard anyone else discuss. Thank you!

It's definitely an ongoing concern. I've done so much design that was truly gratifying, but also worked in a lot of horrible conditions. Ultimately, building someone else's dream is becoming less and less appealing.

I enjoyed this course, very educative.thank you 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

honestly, coming from customer service/administration.. these downsides dont sound too bad at all

I think you’re using it all wrong…if you’re creative enough any research will make you come up with ideas. And have your own side project to build with select people not only a job

Everything you've mentioned -> will get replaced by AI soon

Exactly right 4:12 is the unicorn recipe of 2025-2030+

Yes, UX is not the same as Product Design or the same as Product Innovation.

I am now working in one of the largest companies in the world, and slowly realizing UX isn’t all that prioritized in faang companies. one of the toughest parts for me is being the sole designer in the entire team. UX is stressful as heck.

What a beautiful mind & I'm ready for your Ted talk

Man sorry to hear about your experience, I switched into UX back in 2021 and I've had a completely different experience. In my experience I've been able to significantly impact roadmaps by just being vocal about UXD observations. I've also been able to get my own ideas into roadmaps by literally just presenting ideas to Key stakeholders. If anyone is thinking about UXD I'd like to chyme in to say UXD is what you make it to be.

Thanks Travis for making this video. Even though the technology is moving so fast, it has really helped me understand how to break into UX design for blockchain, web3 as a UX designer

I feel you. ❤ I myself am a business owner, the host of my own podcast 'Goddess of Technology' and additionally, an Enterprise Customer Success Manager (CSM) employed in a SaaS company, which I'm doing to fund my business until it's profitable. For entrepreneurial people like yourself and I, entrepreneurship is the only solution, whether it be full-time or part-time. No matter how much freedom and creativity a nine-to-five job as an employee in a company allows, it will never equate to the personal growth and happiness entrepreneurship or creating any other piece of art from scratch brings. ✨ I myself appreciate the pro's that being a CSM presents. Moreover, I'm a hobby front-end engineer who's also interested in UX design. But none of these nine-to-five, employed professions offer the same level of happiness creating something of your own brings. It's not about that certain professions are bad, that certain products are bad, that certain companies are bad. They can be great. But if they do not tell *your story* , but someone else's, then it will never spark as much joy in your heart than something that *you have created from scratch* , your interpretation of how to make an impact in the world, your personal ways of how to help people.

Pointless video, yeah most people that get paid a salary "suffer" the things you have outlined...

During my time in university / doing my BA in interaction design I got the mindset that you are going to be super-creative and all that sweet stuff. However during my time as a professional UX designer this mindset shifted more in favor of being efficient and secure. It seems that reusing certain design pattern absolutely makes sense for building a universal "language" and not reinvent the wheel over again. So it's better not to be "creative" but rather pragmatic and analytic and then steal somebody's design from somewhere on the internet. It's really not as creative as I imagined it once (which is not too important to me anymore).

Thanks Alot

I understand ur point of view perfectly but i believe ur reasons for quitting rather stems more from a sense of unmet expectations & the fear of spiralling into a midlife crisis. Personally, my expectations for the UX industry is exactly as u described. Am just entering my 40s with 20years experience in the field of product design and i can practically relate to the path of fulfilment u are embarking on. As u pursue this cause i'd be mindful of raising any further expectations of chasing novel projects. Most of these ideas also come with their challenges of launching or dying out a few years upon arrival. Even when they manage to succeed they gradually transform into the very conventional space u wished to escape. Hopefully it works out well for u.

Thank you for sharing this part of the UX experience

This video is SO GOOD. I inevitably cried at the last minute. I'm 20 and I feel lost, however, I don't let myself see, know, or admit what I want to pursue and work for because it would require me to stop and reflect, such a waste of time in a hustle culture + social expectations. Also, I'm afraid that if I stop I will end up doing nothing, I guess it's better to keep on trying things to know myself and what real magic means to me.

Interesting but unnerving for me as a UI/UX Designer

This guys got insulted why the CEO makes decisions instead of him 😄