This week we'll be speaking with Mike Reed. Mike is now Principle UX designer for a company called Infromatica in Ontario, Canada. Mike is an experienced product designer (UX/UI) and manager who has led numerous successful consumer apps, eCommerce platforms, SaaS products, and analytics and management consultant tools to market - with proven business results.

Very excited for this episode, today you'll be listening to a conversation I had with Freelance UX/UI designer Ivan Crego. Ivan recently started his career after attending a UX boot camp offered through Career Foundry. Previously, Ivan had an amazing job as a University Recruiter for the New Jersey Institute of Technology where he got paid to travel the world. Nice work if you can get it, huh!

"What is UX design?" is a question I’ve been asked a lot of times in job interviews, from family members, and from prospective clients. If it is a field you wish to participate in as well. It will be essential for you to establish an answer in your own words that means something to you and translates easily enough to the listener.

Evan and I talk about his experience in discovering UX design, telling his parents he was leaving the Biomedical Engineering field. How passion fuels a great designer and his experience with General Assembly. I'm very excited for Evan and his new role and I can't wait to share his story with you.

Brian Evans is a resident and worker in the flourishing downtown of Newark, NJ. Receiving a B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from NJIT he has quickly become a defender of the user, advocate for the differently-abled, and destroyer of churn and red tape. Passionate about designing experiences to help people get control of their financial lives.

By attending UX conferences you will learn critical skills that bring a positive impact to your business, your design team, and most importantly, your own personal growth.

The most important aspect of getting started in anything is showing up everyday and doing the work. As the saying goes, "practice makes perfect." The question is what should you or will you be practicing everyday?

So you want to work as a User Experience Designer? Well, you're not alone. Thousands of aspiring designers are flocking to the profession and for good reason. The jobs are a plenty and the pay makes it more than worthwhile.

"What is UX design?" is a question I’ve been asked a lot of times in job interviews, from family members and from prospective clients. If it is a field you wish to participate in as well. It will be essential for you to establish an answer in your own words that means something to you and translates easy enough to the listener.

My name is Thomas Morrell. I am a designer, father and husband living in the great state of New Jersey. I’m currently the Lead Product Designer at one of America’s largest Financial institutions. I’m starting this blog as a platform to get the creative energy flowing and the ideas out of my head.

This is the trailer episode for the UserFlows Podcast. I'm creating this podcast to be a place for us to discuss User Experience Design, getting started as a UX/Product Designer, and how someone would make the transition from their current field to the field of UX design.