How to start a career in User Experience?

Nick Finck provides his advice in his post, Start­ing a Career in User Exper­i­ence Design and he talk of three core areas of advice: the three E’s are Edu­ca­tion, Exper­i­ence, and Exposure.

“The num­ber one suc­cess factor for user exper­i­ence pro­fes­sion­als is edu­ca­tion… Coupled with edu­ca­tion is exper­i­ence… Build­ing on the edu­ca­tion and exper­i­ence is expos­ure.”

As someone who is build­ing a career path in User Exper­i­ence and someone who has been asked this ques­tion a few times, this post is a good primer.

Per­son­ally, I think I need to build up on the Exper­i­ence part a wee bit and Expos­ure part a lot. Build­ing your expos­ure is some­thing I’ve never focussed on, which I shall rectify.