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永不满足的好奇心和不断学习的动力，永远不要一直待在舒适区，这是我在职业生涯中取得成功的主要秘诀。我大部分时间是自学成才，虽然从未为任何世界知名的公司工作过，但我有强烈的学习、成长和进步的动力。在我的创造精神中，我一直强调与我的团队的两个原则是相关的：“向往学习”和“舒适是最大的敌人”。 I’ve discovered that having an “insatiable curiosity” is rarer than many people might think. To anyone who is struggling with Imposter Syndrome at the moment: your reading this article shows that you are already on the right track. Keep it up! Develop an “insatiable curiosity” and you will progress much faster than you thought possible. 我发现，拥有“永不满足的好奇心”的人比想象的要少得多。对于那些正在假装与懒惰做斗争的人来说：你阅读这篇文章表明你已经走上了正确的道路。 继续努力！ 培养一种“永不满足的好奇心”，你的进步会比你想象的要快得多。 Research how other people have handled things. Listen to podcasts on your way to work. Organize book clubs on your team or design community. Experiment with new methodologies. See what works and what doesn’t. Never be satisfied with the way you are working today. 研究其他人是如何处理事情的，在上班的路上听听播客，在你的团队或设计社区组织读书俱乐部。不断的尝试新的方法，看看什么是有用的、什么是没用的。永远不要满足于你今天的工作方式。 I once had a boss who when I presented a design to him for feedback would always ask me: “is this the best you can do?”. At first it was off-putting, but soon I learned the wisdom in what he was teaching me. He wasn’t criticizing me, he was challenging me to reach a little deeper to see if I could do better. That boss changed my whole outlook as a designer. 我曾经有一个老板，当我向他展示一个设计方案时，他总是问我：“这是你能做到的最好的吗？”。一开始我觉得很不舒服，但是很快我就从他教我的东西中学到了智慧。他不是在批评我，他是在挑战我，让我更深入一些，看看我是否能做得更好。 那个老板改变了我作为一个设计师的整个观念。 If you ARE that passionate about learning, let it come through in your resume, portfolio, and interviews. Let it come through in hallway conversations. Let it come through on LinkedIn. If hiring managers can sense it, they often will take a chance on you if any doubts about your ability to do the job arise. 如果你对学习充满热情，那就让它在你的简历、作品集和面试中体现出来，让它通过剪短的交流也能传达出来，让它在 LinkedIn 上体现出来。 如果招聘经理能感觉到这一点，可能他们对你的工作能力会有些疑虑，但通常也会给你一个机会。 I know I would. 至少我会 THE SOLUTION解决方案 ·Challenge yourself to learn a new software tool ·挑战自己，学习一个新的软件工具 ·Next time you need to brainstorm or conduct user research, use a method you’ve never used before. ·下次需要进行头脑风暴或进行用户研究时，使用一种你从未用过的方法。 ·Read UX books ·阅读 UX 书籍 ·Listen to podcasts ·听播客 ·Participate in meetups ·参加聚会 7. Mature User ResearchSkills 成熟的用户研究技巧 I am constantly amazed when interviewing Senior UX Designers at how few of them have more than elementary knowledge of and skills required in the area of User Research. They all have enough user research passion to fill every football stadium in America, but very few have experience with more than interviewing and usability testing, and even fewer can tell me what a usability test plan is or what it should contain. 在采访高级用户体验设计师时，我经常惊讶于他们中很少有人在用户研究领域拥有超过基本知识和技能的。他们对用户研究热情可以填满美国的每一个足球场，但是很少有人的对可用性测试的经验比面试更多，更少有人能告诉我什么是可用性测试计划或者它应该包含什么。 In one sense, it is not their fault. Precious few schools actually teach user research. Even fewer teach more than a couple methods and typically it is only a single unit in an Interaction Design course. 从某种意义上说，这不是他们的错，真正教授用户研究的学校寥寥无几。在交互设计课程中，教授多个方法的学生更少，而且通常只有一个单独的章节。 （责任编辑：晨鸿） |
