Ask Me Anything: User Experience Designer Edition | September 26

Join General Assembly for a fireside chat about becoming a User Experience Designer - from agency, to freelance, to in-house, the skills companies look for in a hire, and the resources to get you started.

Bring your questions for our UX Design experts. They'll will give you insight into the role, help you understand what is needed to get there, and, just maybe, inspire you to make a change.

• What the day-to-day of a User Experience Designer looks like
• Top skills needed to succeed
• The best communities to meet other design and research folks
• The ups and downs of this career

Emma is a Senior Experience Designer at Tribalworldwide DDB, a digital agency based in London. Emma has had an interesting path into UX, having studied Psychology at University and not really knowing how she could use her knowledge, fell immediately into Client Services as she knew she wanted to work in an agency. Shortly after this, she got into Data Strategy but it wasn't until working closely with the UX team on various projects did she realise her Psychology degree could come into use. Emma completed the General Assembly 10-week part-time course in 2018 which enabled her to career change. She then went on to teach the same course twice in 2020/21 to help others make the leap into the world of tech.

Katrina is a Senior User Experience Consultant at Wunderman Thompson Commerce, a digital, based in London. Katrina fell into the field of UX after working for General Assembly part-time, simultaneously exposing herself to the tech industry. She completed the UXDI immersive course in 2015 in Los Angeles at General Assembly, paving a new career path for herself. Shortly, after completing her course she moved to Spain and worked for a consultancy that allowed her to travel across Europe, working on projects in Aerospace, Insurance, Government, Private, Hospitality and more. More recently, she’s moved to London where she co-instructed the part-time User Experience course in 2020/2021 at General Assembly.