Darren Kall: How does psychology prepare me for a User Experience (UX) career?

How does psychology prepare me for a User Experience (UX) career?

User Experience (UX) is a popular term, but there is a lot of confusion as to what UX is and what background you should have to get a job in UX. Darren Kall is a UX-veteran who will clarify and simplify the definition of UX. He will share how his background in cognitive and perceptual psychology lead him to a 30-year career making better products and services for 100’s of millions of people.

Psychology is a big chunk of UX, but psychology alone isn’t all of UX. UX is an approach that depends on science, engineering, and art. UX is an attitude shared across disciplines to create products, services, and concepts specifically to fit the needs, desires, skills and limitations of the people who will use them. Anything that people interact with can be made better with a UX approach.

Learn how the multi-disciplinary field of UX fits together and where you fit in.

Relevant for:

Psychology students, Sociology and Anthropology students, and other behavioral science students, faculty, and staff.

Darren Kall is a User Experience (UX) design and strategy expert who works as the Managing Director of Specific Clarity. He collaborates with leaders of technology and technology-enabled companies to improve the user experience of their products and services. He and his team have designed or improved 100’s of products used by millions of people internationally and domestically.

Before co-founding Specific Clarity and SecurityUX, Darren worked at Microsoft, AT&T Bell Laboratories, LexisNexis, and IBM. He holds 11 US patents, 6 international patents, with 172 patent citations. He has degrees from Dartmouth College in Cognitive and Perceptual Experimental Psychology, and Rutgers College in Experimental Psychology, and Studio Art and Design.

When he isn't creating better UX, Darren is a husband, a dad, a beekeeper, a sculptor and a painter.