Hi David, I took M873 a few years back while working as a front end developer/web producer. It got me a hybrid front end/user experience role, but I found it hard to move into a full UX role with just that course and my limited experience. It helped me get my foot in the door for interviews, but the common feedback was that I wasn't experienced enough, even for junior roles, and to try again with about 6 months more experience.
So I took a year off and did UCL's HCI-E MSc, which I highly recommend, both because of what I learned and because it helped me get a UX job. I realise this isn't an option for everyone (it helped that I lived in London already), but you can do it part time and only go 1 or 2 days a week. I know some people did that and worked as well. I knew I couldn't focus on working and studying from my experience with the OU module, so I decided just to study. The OU course prepared me well for the MSc and it did help my career but not as much as the MSc did. But someone with a larger portfolio and more working experience might have a different experience. Renée P.S. That's no reflection on the OU course - I thought it was excellent overall. Only complaint was that the textbooks fell apart too easily - when I did it, there were 3 separate books plus appendices, etc. I still refer to the ebook editions that I got and find them to be useful references. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:53 AM, David Little <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm taking this as a standalone course and I'm hoping it will make > it easier to move into a usability / UI / IX etc. role (I'm > currently a web developer). I'm not sure how useful the course will > be in supporting this -- how much do employers value these > qualifications and is a course such as this sufficient on its own? > -- Renée Rosen-Wakeford [email protected] Twitter: @lilitu93 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
