The UX Profession: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Baker started her career as a research assistant at the Space Vacuum Epitaxy Center at the University of Houston doing cool stuff with science. She moved into software design when she discovered physics didn’t have enough people-y bits. She has authored a book on UX and Agile, “Agile UX Storytelling: A Zombie Software Case Study” (available on Amazon; it makes an excellent gift), holds a patent for Information Encapsulation, and has spoken at a ridiculous number of conferences. A UX Jedi, excellent listener, 30-year veteran of the software design space, and dungeon master, Dr. Baker’s publications and talks span topics from technical writing to remote usability testing to agile UX processes and beyond. Her passion for research and helping people understand the “why” behind design, combined with the recent developments in large language model (LLM)-based artificial intelligence, led her to partner with the marvelous Dr. Rekart to publish her most recent book, “Designing for Human Intelligence in an Artificial Intelligence World: Understanding Human Cognition to Design for Humans.”