A UX bootcamp is just the beginning

A Bootcamper’s reflection two years after graduating and successfully breaking into the UX industry.

As a young college graduate, I knew I wanted to make the transition from a Graphic Design major into the UX field. That is why in the fall of 2019 I registered for a UX Bootcamp as a means to fill my designer toolbox with more UX-centered methods and tools.

As those three months flew by, my toolbox became heavier and heavier. I started to feel as though I was a UX Designer and no longer a Graphic Designer by trade. I graduated with the confidence to obtain and retain freelance clients, practicing my newly learned skillsets.

However, almost two years after graduating and having now worked in a startup, agency, and now corporate setting, I find myself constantly reformating my own UX process, rather than using the cookie-cutter one I learned in my Bootcamp. The reason for this?

I believe Bootcamp cookie-cutter structure leads to a lack of innovation.

As a mentor of many different Bootcamp graduates, I have noticed that many of them teach it’s students to always use the same process with the same UX methods.

Let me be clear while beginning your UX journey and while you start to practice these…