Nearly six years ago, I began sharing my perspective on the UX job market and how to approach a search with strategy and intention. In my coaching practice, I’ve supported hundreds of professionals directly, and thousands more across the broader design community. I enjoyed contributing to an evolving field, and built a practice and body of work I’m deeply proud of.
Over the past several years, the field of UX design, and the broader world of work, has undergone profound disruption. Like many of you, I witnessed and experienced the frustration, uncertainty, and loss that reshaped countless careers and livelihoods.
Supporting this community before and throughout this period was both fulfilling and extremely challenging. Regular job offers became sparse. The environment that enabled people to take risks turned upside down. I spoke to what felt true, named what was difficult, and showed up for people through a profoundly uncertain period. Ultimately it depleted my energy and capacity to keep showing up in the same way.
It’s important to me to do meaningful work on my own terms. In time, I became clear on something important and unexpected—that I had reached the natural limits of where I can continue to take this chapter.
My work in UX design and job search support is now complete, and I’m turning my attention toward what’s next.
So what’s next?
I look forward to sharing more when the time is right. One thing you can be sure will continue is the perspective many of you have come to know, applied to a wider horizon. I’ve always been drawn to the deeper questions and themes that live beneath: power and agency, how systems shape livelihoods and identity, how to effect personal and collective change, and what it means to pursue meaningful work when the conditions are far from ideal.
Thank you for reading, engaging, and allowing me to be part of your professional lives over the years.
With appreciation,
Amy