Alex Boschmans
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

I’m 49 and have been extremely lucky that when an UX departement was created in my company about 2 years ago I got in at the ground floor so to speak. I’ve been able to look over the shoulders of (ux) designers and learn from them.

I’ve always been interested in having things “work right” for the customer, doing flow diagrams to lay out the purchase proces, making sure that the screens are logical, etc, but it just never was called UX.

At my age, I had already given up on doing any ‘real’ UX, as I would have had to quit my job and follow a course or be accepted into a junior design position somewhere for a lot less pay, if I even got accepted. And having a family to support and loans to pay I wouldn’t risk that.

It’s been enormously rewarding so far — I’ve learned a lot and feel myself “growing” again.

This year I attended a few courses (nng conferences are great to learn a lot quickly) and am focusing on prototyping using Axure and Invision/Sketch and want to deepen myself in interaction design (at least as I understand it). I would like to introduce Framer at work, but it’s programming concept is something that not a lot of designers there find attractive.

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    Alex Boschmans

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    Python and web fan. UX Design and Prototyping using Axure, Sketch and some Framer.