0 - step on my way to become a UX-designer

So this will be my UX diary about becoming a UX-designer.

I’ve been always wondering about how I should follow my own process of evolving in field of UX and show this for others (beginners, seniors, potential collegues) in the meantime. And then I find Medium, and I thought I will write a diary about all my problems and challanges which I face day in day out.

This is my 0-step, when I try to write about the actualities. These are the following:

1. I started the following courses (all at once)
   User Experience for the Web — WebUX
   Wireframing, Prototyping, Mockuping — What’s the Difference? — Designmodo
   Intro to the Design of Everyday Things — Udacity
2. I started the following books also (almost all at once :P)
   Don Norman: The Design of Everyday Things
   Dan Ariely: Predictably Irrational
3. I finished
   Kevin Werbach: Gamification course — Coursera
   Steve Krug: Don’t make me think

Beyond finishing these aid projects, the following

1. get some ral-world experience with user research, card sorting, wireframing, and all the field and process of UX design. I believe that this helps me a lot about understanding the whole process and choosing my professionalization.
2. making min. 6 (re)design project which shows how my work helped the user getting a better experience.
3. Approve my English by watching a lot of UX-video (ok, maybe sometimes, I will watch some movies also :P, but I will surely concentrate to UX). Taking the TOEFL/IELTS exam.
4. So after my English became acceptable (and hopefully more) I want my article published on the A List Apart’s site.
5. I will become a Masterand student on MOME ID or related MA course.
6. Learn to pass step by step, without wanting everything to come true at once.
7. In the end of the year, I want to read these rows with a big smile on my face, saying: “yepp, this was the beginning of a hard and frightful story, but it worth it.”

So wish me luck, the journey has begun :D