My name is Pramit Nairi.
I teach User Experience Design as well as
Design Thinking at UCLA Extension.
I've been teaching for the past nearly ten
years at UCLA Extension.
Started out teaching the fundamentals of UX
and as that grew and as a certificate program
came to be, it naturally turned into a much
more comprehensive program.
The depth of instruction, the depth of knowledge
that's shared and collaborated with students
really sets students up to be user experience
practitioners.
So you can go on to becoming user experience
designer; someone who makes products.
You can go on to become a user experience
researcher; someone who really gets out there
and tries to understand what motivates people.
What drives them.
Why would someone want to interact with a
product or interact with a service.
Or you can go on to become, say, just purely
a user experience generalist; someone who
does both of those.
So someone contemplating taking this program,
the first piece of advice I'd give them would be,
"Brace yourself.
You're in for the adventure of a lifetime.
You're in for a career, you're in for a perspective
that will change your life."
Once you've become a user experience designer,
once you've gone through this program, you
will never look at any product the same way,
you'll never look at any service the same
way, and you'll always forever be wondering
what could be made better.
UCLA Extension is life changing.
