If we do our jobs properly, people have no idea what user experience is — it just works!
But just knowing the tools isn’t enough to be successful. Good UX work is equal parts passion, pragmatism, and politics.
- If you’re a UX professional looking for confirmation that you’re not mad, that there’s hope, and that other people have had similar crazy experiences to yours and survived, this is the place for you.
- If you’re a UX practitioner who needs the confidence to advance your career, you’ll find advice based on our experiences.
- If you’re just curious about UX, this is the place to learn about how things really play out.
We are three friendly user experience researchers who each run our own consulting companies working with Fortune 100 companies and startups. We also all create video training content for LinkedIn Learning.
Amanda Stockwell
Amanda runs Stockwell Strategy, helping organizations understand who their users are, what they need, how that ties into business goals, and how to utilize that information to craft better experiences for everyone involved. She especially likes helping build teams, establishing research processes, and providing training and coaching.
Amanda likes teaching so much that she started offering courses on UX research methods and conducting research in Lean and Agile settings.
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Cory Lebson
Cory has been a user experience consultant for over 20 years and is the Principal and Owner of Lebsontech LLC. Lebsontech is focused on user research and evaluation, user experience strategy, UX training, and mentoring.
Cory is also the author of The UX Careers Handbook and is a LinkedIn Learning instructor with courses focused on starting and building a career in user experience and on the importance of empathy in UX design.
Cory speaks frequently, has been featured on the radio and has also published a number of articles in a variety of professional publications. He is a past president of the User Experience Professionals Association (UXPA) International and is also a past president of the UXPA DC Chapter.
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Chris Nodder
Chris runs Chris Nodder Consulting, where he spends most of his time helping enterprise and agile startup teams integrate design thinking and user centered practices into their work.
Chris wrote the book Evil By Design: Interaction design to lead us into temptation. He was previously a senior user researcher at Microsoft and UX director at Nielsen Norman group.
He’s created online training courses on design thinking, interaction design, user research, information architecture, persuasive design, and writing for an online audience.
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