Alumni Success Stories: How One GA Grad Changed Careers After 10 Years in Finance

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It’s never too late to pursue work you love — that’s what we learned catching up with User Experience Immersive Design (UXDI) alum, Manan Shah, about his journey from senior finance professional to user experience (UX) designer. Working in a high-paying, secure role for over a decade, you might think, “What more could you ask […]

GA Jobs To Be Done: A Series – Build Teams to Thrive in a Digital-First World

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The Second Step: Grow Business Impact With New Ways of Working With consumers’ accelerated adoption of digital behaviors, the inevitable digital transformation of most businesses within every industry is here. Under increased economic pressure, business leaders across the board are trying to get ahead of the transformation imperative that digitization requires. Through our deep experience […]

GA Jobs To Be Done: A Series – Build Teams To Thrive in a Digital-First World

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The First Step: Transitioning to a Digital-First Culture Due to the effects of the pandemic, we know that remote offices are not only surviving — they’re thriving. The digital world is here to stay. Between consumers’ accelerated adoption of digital behaviors and a permanently changed working culture, the inevitable — and necessary — digital transformation […]

Front-End Web Developer Salaries

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Featuring Insights From Pedro Martin & Matt Studdert Read: 4 Minutes Maybe you’re curious about becoming a front-end web developer but want to know what you’re in for before making the leap. Or perhaps you’re weighing whether it would be financially worthwhile to invest the time and money in a career switch. You probably already […]

What can you do with coding?

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What do the most in-demand 2021 jobs and promising careers of the future have in common? Coding skills. At the same time, new applications of coding are making their way into existing roles, expanding job requirements in traditional fields like banking and marketing. Even for non-tech roles, coding skills are seen as a valuable bonus […]

How to Make a UX Portfolio: 8 UX Design Portfolio Examples

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The UX portfolio website has superseded the business card as a UX designer’s most essential professional networking tool. Especially these days, as the UX design industry pivots abruptly to a predominantly remote professio­­­n, UX designers communicate their professional identities virtually through their online presence to navigate the constricted job market successfully.  In my middling work […]

Top 15 Skills Every Digital Marketer Needs to Master

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Tech is booming, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for organizations of all sizes to move away from traditional marketing and establish a competitive online presence as swiftly as possible. This need fuels the demand for skilled digital marketing professionals worldwide. In fact, at this very moment, there are over 150K digital […]

We Will Not Be Complicit

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Black life and Black lives matter. Silence and idleness in the face of systemic oppression are complicities, and we are not complicit. General Assembly stands with those across the U.S. and around the world1 fighting against racism, police brutality, and the widespread, systemic violence against Black people that has taken place throughout our global history. […]