At some point in your UX career, you’ll likely feel pressured to decide if you want to be a UX generalist or a UX specialist. How do you know what’s right for you? When is the best time to decide? The world needs both UX generalists and specialists. Ultimately, it depends on what you want. What are you skilled at? What do you enjoy doing? What types of companies and team structures do you thrive in?

Your answers to these questions will help you decide if and when you should consider focusing on a specific part of UX. 

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Stop trying to make your UX case study a certain number of words or make it fit on a single page.

Instead, you must think like a designer and determine whether or not the case study feels too long.

Subjective? Yes. But design is subjective and though we have best practices, trying to apply rules such as number of words a case study should be simply doesn’t make sense.

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