I recently attended a unique user experience conference, ConveyUX, from February 5^th – 7^th in Seattle. I was pleasantly surprised by the size, organization, and quality of content.

The idea of a privately-organized conference was new to me. So I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’ve only been to conferences organized by professional associations, such as the UXPA conference (organized by the User Experience Professional’s…

The “Unicorn” concept (a rare individual who can do every UX job) has been talked up lately. I last heard an impassioned talk about this at UI18 in Boston. The idea goes something like this: There are so many enterprises that need UX services but there are just not enough people to do them. So what we need to do in the UX community is to avoid specialization and become a super generalist. If we become Unicorns then there…