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Beer-fueled brainstorming sessions aside, experience design can be serious work. It can also be explorations of sci-fi, meditations on beloved toys, celebrity-themed listicles, and feisty kittiens. C'mon, let's have some fun.

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Article No. 1187 | February 12, 2014
UX the Bruce Lee Way
by Joseph Dickerson
Many of the guiding principles that made Bruce Lee a master martial artist can help you become a master designer.
Article No. 968 | February 28, 2013
POP UX! LEGO Teaches us About the Power of Near-Perfect User Experience
by Josh Tyson | UX Magazine
LEGO toys give users a consistently rewarding experience that stays on-brand no matter how weird building projects get.
Article No. 871 | September 21, 2012
Five User Experience Lessons from Tom Cruise
by Steve Tengler
It was news to us, too: Tom Cruise can teach you a lot about good user experience.
Comic By Brady Bonus

Getting started in UX

Our contributors and staff recommend these articles on for developing an understanding of experience design and jumpstarting your career.

Hiring the Right Designer
How Much UX have You Put into Your UX Portfolio?
How Mature is Your Organization when it Comes to UX?
The UX Team Starting Lineup
Seven Things Your Boss Needs to Know About UX
Why UX Designers Need to Think like Architects
Five Customer Experience Lessons Coffee Taught Me
Four Things I Learned about UX at Universal Studios
The (Sometimes) Giddy Experience of Learning Design

Key Reading

Five UX Lessons from Hollywood
by Steve Tengler, UX Magazine Staff
A collection of five wide-ranging UX lessons from an unlikely source: popular movies.
Designing Big Data for Humans (with a Little Help from Hollywood)
by Tutti Taygerly
Taking data with the richness of what Minority Report showed us and giving it the kind of approachable interface seen in Her.
Walt Disney: The World’s First UX Designer
by Joseph Dickerson
Attention to detail, a focus on immersion, and the desire constantly improve his products made Walt Disney one of the earliest designers of user experience.
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