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Darren Hood's Emotional Intelligence Book Recommendations
Darren Hood's Emotional Intelligence Book Recommendations
By Darren Hood, MSUXD
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Book Recommendations: Interaction Design & Cognitive Psychology
Book Recommendations: Interaction Design & Cognitive Psychology
By Darren Hood, MSUXD
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Darren Hood's Living, Breathing User Experience Book Recommendation List
Darren Hood's Living, Breathing User Experience Book Recommendation List
By Darren Hood, MSUXD
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"They’re outsourcing the part of their jobs that they don’t want to do [on hiring UX researchers]" - Ari Zelmanow on the podcast | listen here:…
"They’re outsourcing the part of their jobs that they don’t want to do [on hiring UX researchers]" - Ari Zelmanow on the podcast | listen here:…
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Episode 217 of The World of UX is now available! This week, Darren hosts AI expert Yan Vishnepolsky. Yan tells his story about entering the worlds…
Episode 217 of The World of UX is now available! This week, Darren hosts AI expert Yan Vishnepolsky. Yan tells his story about entering the worlds…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Podcaster
CX of M Radio
- Present 4 years 5 months
Education
Host and producer for The World of UX with Darren Hood podcast.
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Volunteer
Ignite UX Michigan
- Present 11 years
Ignite UX Michigan is an evening of 5 minute talks on a range of user experience related topics. It was a free event open to public thanks to our generous sponsors. Ignite UX is enormously grateful to the local UX community. I've served as a photographer and a presentation screener/reviewer.
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Basis Peak Beta Team Member
Intel Corporation
- 5 months
Evaluating Basis Peak health and fitness wearable device, providing feedback and design recommendations.
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Technology Columnist
The Lakeshore Guardian
- 3 years
Wrote technology columns for The Lakeshore Guardian — a newspaper serving Michigan's thumb area.
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Publications
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The Quest for Excellence in UX Leadership
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How to Build a Powerful UX Team
Darren Hood (for TryMyUI)
How do you find the right people for a balanced, effective, and powerful UX team? What traits and skills do you look for? This presentation by Darren Hood (Manager of UX at Bosch and Adjunct Professor at Kent State University) provides some not-so-common insight on how to properly recruit and identify the right members for a powerful UX team.
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Are you an information architect or content designer? Dive into AI beyond chat interfaces in my new workshop. There are limited spots – reserve…
Are you an information architect or content designer? Dive into AI beyond chat interfaces in my new workshop. There are limited spots – reserve…
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If your performance isn’t measured by how you serve customers and product users then your company is doing it wrong. Performance management should be…
If your performance isn’t measured by how you serve customers and product users then your company is doing it wrong. Performance management should be…
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This is a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of agentic use cases with current commercial tools and upcoming developments. It's not…
This is a must-read for anyone interested in the complexities of agentic use cases with current commercial tools and upcoming developments. It's not…
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AI be like ... /// Yaddy mentioned "karma" farther down in her post. lol///
AI be like ... /// Yaddy mentioned "karma" farther down in her post. lol///
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Hey! If you're interested in AI and the role it plays as well as the future of AI IN UX Research & Design, come hang out and chat with me and the…
Hey! If you're interested in AI and the role it plays as well as the future of AI IN UX Research & Design, come hang out and chat with me and the…
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Time to reshare my UXR book recommendation list. Enjoy! https://lnkd.in/ejJPddBJ
Time to reshare my UXR book recommendation list. Enjoy! https://lnkd.in/ejJPddBJ
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