5 Years After UX Academy, featuring Dan Andrews

UX Academy alumni shares tips and insights to help you build a flourishing UX career.

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Jun 2, 2023
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Catch up on our conversation with Dan Andrews, UX Academy graduate and Product Designer currently on contract with Spotify.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

  • Tips for finding and approaching design opportunities
  • What life was like right after graduating from UX Academy
  • Challenges, learnings, and experiences that shaped his career path
  • How to be a lifelong learner passionate about design

About Dan Andrews:

Dan has held various in-house and contracted design roles since graduating from UX Academy, and each position has allowed him to continuously grow as a designer.

His favorite part of design is the breadth of the discipline itself, sitting between people, technology, and business. He enjoys getting into research to understand complex problems as much as working with a range of disciplines to solve them. Over the past few years as a design consultant, Dan has collaborated with a range of businesses from Spotify and Epic Games, to top-tier consultancies like Wunderman Thompson and Elsewhen. Plus, a wide range of start-ups.

Dan enjoys giving back to the creative community. Previously, he mentored career switchers. Currently, he’s part of a program that supports individuals from underprivileged backgrounds in the UK in entering creative industries. When not behind a computer, Dan enjoys hiking, photography, art, psychology, and a variety of other fitness-related activities. In his early 20s, he spent three years in Asia and took an interest in Buddhism. Dan’s passionate about Psychology, including resilience, subjective well-being, mindfulness, and stereotypes. He currently lives just outside of London, England in a house (which has encouraged his passion for DIY) with his partner and two cats (who run the show).

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