Climbing the UX mountain, a path full of turns and twists.

How and why I chose to get into UX as a visual designer

It was curiosity first, frustration next, and lastly, a passion for new design frontiers

Exactly like treading up that mountain, my path to UX design was and still is twisted and turned.

Design has always been in my life. I think it’s in everyone’s life, really.

In the pre-UX years, poster design in particular caught my eyes early on that made me want to excel in design. All those fabulous travel posters of the early 20th century that portray a world to be explored. Some of them are practically forecasting a more interactive age, by adding diagrams, maps, and location information for the savvy traveler.

This example of very pleasing poster design advertising traveling to Mount Fuji in Japan is inspiring as a design, and most interesting as an example of how the titillated user is integrated into the pictorial offering by adding a detailed map of the train stops and topography.

1930s Japan Travel Poster, Yamanashi Prefecture, with Mount Fuji in the background, Japanese Government Railways). Public domain image.

Poster design as a production tool has not changed much.

But the way we integrate the viewer…