Ask yourself: Do I have the traits of a budding UX designer?
Passion for the craft.check~
Curiosity about people and technology.check~
Ability to learn quickly.check~
A detail-oriented nature.not-sure
Receptiveness to feedbackcheck~
(willingness to accept constructive criticism and act on it).
UX必备特征：【对工艺的热情】+【对人与科技的好奇】+【快速学习】+【关注细节】+【积极对待反馈】
Read some of the classic UX books.
There are plenty of great books for UX beginners. Here are my favorites:
1. Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
2. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman
3. A Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler
4. Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond by Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld
5. How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert _IA
6. Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish _Content
7. Get Started in UX
There is no prescribed path for becoming a UX designer.
Like many UX designers, I found my way into UX design.
Advice!
Become a part of your local UX community;
融入身边的UX圈子，建立关系
Read Don Norman’sThe Design of Everyday Things;
Follow people on Twitter and keep up with the latest dialogue.
Find a mentor.
“Whether you know it or not, I consider you my mentor.”
找一个非正式的导师，积极请教
Get comfortable with teaching yourself new things.
持续地，自主地，探索未知事物
Soak up free content.
充分利用免费资源
UX practitioners are passionate people who love to share their thoughts on the practice.
Start following UX blogs likeUIE,UX Matters,UX Booth,Boxes & Arrows, andA List Apart.
All you can learn 一个UX图书馆（课程收费）
Learn to code.
You don’t have to master code to be a great UX designer.
But an understanding of front-end web development (HTML and CSS) is a must.
It may be easier to break into the field as a developer than a UX designer.
When you learn to code, you can create a few simple sites, make them live, and show off your work to the world.
Find a way to apply UX on actual project work.
You’ll need real work experience to learn UX design.
UX hiring managers want to know how you solve problems.
Theoretical assignments or projects won’t give you experience.
You’ll need a project with real users, real constraints like time and budget, and real team members.
Lean UX is the perfect disaster-avoidance technique.
You start with one customer—your end user.
You do your research and figure out the number one problem they have with your product or service.
You take a guess at what you could do to solve that problem.
You run your “hypothesis” through the “think, make, check” cycle to see if your guess was right.