Whew! That was a lot harder than I thought it would be! On a whim, I decided I wanted to bolster my credentials in the field of User Experience, so I signed up to take Human Factors International's Certified Usability Analyst exam - without taking their courses (and saving $5,320 of their track price). I had about a week to prepare.

I already have a job, so why'd I do it? Well, in the web design world, it's easy to let your work speak for itself. You wanna see websites?? Bam! Here's some websites! If you're good, your work is good, and everybody can see it's good. Good, clean, semantic markup; cutting-edge css3 techniques; slick JQuery - it takes mere minutes to see if someone's got the goods, just by looking at a couple websites.… Read more »