In this episode The Team Interviews UX Designer Lauren DeMarks! Lauren talks about her time as a design student, intern, and Senior UX Designer.

Show Notes:

Working as a designer in a very specific niche and how I adjusted out of school

• apprehensive about diving right into edtech right out of college because it sounded kind of limiting on its face, but really it’s been a lot of fun
• also probably more common for designers to see than they think
• It’s also just the reality for any designer that ends up being an in-house designer
• They’re going to have to become familiar with a specific vertical or industry
• Young designers could just kind of naturally gravitate toward the more sexy-sounding agency jobs but there’s a lot out there outside of that!

A few questions for Lauren:

Topic: being ok with going into a very niche career right out of school?

• Introduce yourself!
• How did you find this job? Is this your first job?
• How do you build and maintain excitement about working within a specific industry—especially one you didn't expect to be working in?
• How did you adjust to working within a niche? What did you have to do to adjust in your role that you might not have expected when you got into edtech?
• How and what skills can transfer from one industry to another? How do I communicate and show those skills to future employers?

Host, Producer, & Editor - Mark Cela
Host, Director, & Script Writer - Kristen Pericleous
Host, Social Media Manager, Social Media Content Creator, & Editor - Dan Lawson