<p>From working in higher education to full time UX designer in 10 months.</p>
<p>Meghan Kelly is a full time UX Specialist at <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Elsevier</a>. She volunteers as Events Lead Organizer at <a href="https://www.girldevelopit.com/chapters/philadelphia" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Girl Develop It Philly</a>, and has served as Events Lead at <a href="https://codeforphilly.org/pages/leadership/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Code for Philly</a>.</p>
<p>In this episode, she is completely candid about the confusing process of trying to find a path to change careers into tech.</p>
<p>We also get into what she actually does day to day in her new job.</p>
<p>Amazingly, she went from never having heard of UX, to being offered full time employment in that role in less than a year. We talk about exactly what she tried, what worked and what didn’t, anxiety, failures and sticking with it until she got her job offer.</p>
<p>Meghan is hilarious so this was really fun to record.<br>
Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/meghanakelly" rel="noopener" target="_blank">@<strong>meghanakelly<br>
</strong></a>Web <a href="https://www.meghanakelly.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">meghanakelly.com</a></p>
<p>Topics Mentioned:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.meghanakelly.com/blog/2017/12/7/k09urgrkg6jlefetktaqvkvqc86v1s" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Newbie’s Guide to why your CSS might not be updating by Meghan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.meghanakelly.com/blog/2017/12/12/the-newbies-guide-to-slack" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Newbie’s Guide to Slack by Meghan</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.meghanakelly.com/reiss-pt-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Physical Therapy website redesign we discussed</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.meghanakelly.com/pinterest" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Meghan’s Pinterest Design Project</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/corey_latislaw" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Corey Latislaw twitter</a>: <a href="https://technical.ly/philly/2016/10/24/corey-leigh-latislaw-pinterest-android/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Philly Android dev who moved to SF for Pinterest</a></li>
<li><a href="https://codepen.io/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CodePen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://phillychi.acm.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">PhillyCHI</a> “PhillyCHI is the Philadelphia region’s chapter of the ACM SIGCHI, an interdisciplinary academic and professional group interested in human-computer interaction, user experience, usability, and other related disciplines.”</li>
<li>Mockup tools: <a href="https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Omnigraffle</a>, <a href="https://www.sketchapp.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sketch</a>, <a href="https://balsamiq.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Balsamiq</a>, <a href="https://www.axure.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Axure</a></li>
<li>An interesting quote from Meghan: “UX is about reducing anxiety.”</li>
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