Every week on The UX Blog Podcast, Nicholas Tenhue interviews user experience professionals about current trends, hot topics, and their careers. Subscribe on your favorite podcast player!

Chris is the UX practice director at Silicus Technologies, a Houston-based turnkey cloud services firm. Chris and his team pursue a consumer-grade standard for usable and visually immersive enterprise software.

This is part 1 of a 2 part series with Chris Lahiri, we Hear Chris talk about UX Certification. Stay tuned for part 2 where we hear Chris discuss the Unsung Tablet.

In this episode we hear Chris talk about:

• His own Lahiri Studios
• The boutique and agency design agency worlds
• The switch from opinion-driven design to data-driven design in creative decision-making
• The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project, an open source project for mobile optimized content for quick loading and good user experience
• UX Certification and the value of the Certification of UX Training Achievement with Nielsen Norman Group
• Shitty UX/UI Analogies

Chris has also kindly given us permission to include examples of his work from his time as Director, UX and Creative Services as SCI Group:

Credit: Chris Lahiri, SCI Group, NCI. Stempowerment is funded by National Institutes of Health (NCI) via the Federal small business innovation program (R41CA168107). PIs McLaughlin, Peterson, Askins, Zhang.

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