UE is Where the Interdisciplinary Money Is

Okay, so Google doesn't post salaries with their job descriptions, but check out the demand for User Experience Researchers there. Don't believe me? How about this list of UE jobs at Facebook? Want to go back to Canada? Then you can work here. That's almost ten jobs right there in three links. Seriously.

We've had a User Experience Design course for years. Now we're adding a User Experience Research course with a newly relocated designer, Chris Korintus who works at Sapient (along with Sarah Lamont. Hi Sarah!). Check it:

Today's designers must satisfy the needs of multiple constituents, including clients, colleagues, and, especially, end-users. The ultimate goal of experience research is to inform design decisions that meet the critical needs of constituents. User research helps assess gaps in an existing experience, discover design opportunities, refine concepts and strategy, and test the creative/design execution. This course covers the key concepts of evaluation and evaluation methods, and students develop both quantitative and qualitative measures, such as contextual observation, heuristic analysis, surveying, interviewing, focus groups, persona development, evaluation during the design/iteration cycle, usability testing, and analysis of systems in use. Designers leave the course with an understanding of which methods to use, given constraints, and how to design, field, and report on findings.

You can be a UE Researcher! Yes, you. Register here.