Meet Abby Goodrum
We sat down with Abby Goodrum, Director of Education at UXPA International to learn how she got started in UX, her advice for people starting out in the field and what song makes her get up and dance! How did you get started in the field of UX? After completing my Masters degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Texas, I went to work in the CNN library in Atlanta. While there I became fascinated with the challenges of creating metadata to access video segments – including specific images contained within videos. As a result of my experiences at CNN, I undertook doctoral studies in Information Science with a focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval. For …