The Hunt For The UX Unicorn

Together with Webdagene, we held a panel discussion at Mesh about designers, skill sets and company culture, framed around the idea of the "UX unicorn".

The unicorn stood for the designer who is expected to do everything: graphic design, rapid prototyping, front-end development, user testing, technical specifications, marketing and branding, while also making up for weak strategy, poor management and small budgets. The event description stated plainly that such a person does not exist, and then asked whether that was really true.

The panel consisted of Lauren Currie, Krystal Higgins, Gerry McGovern and Mike Monteiro, who discussed with the audience what the expectation of all-round designers means for practitioners and for the organisations that hire them.

Speakers

• Lauren Currie
• Krystal Higgins
• Gerry McGovern
• Mike Monteiro

The original event page is on meetup.com.