Time to focus on getting “fluent”

Here’s a great post by Whitney Hess about becoming a UX designer. I eagerly await part two! My main hurdle is just getting sufficient experience to get my foot in the door and compete for jobs.

My Visio trial expired today, but I feel I’ve fiddled around with it enough that I can use it effectively. If anything I regret not getting in enough practice on making my own shapes, simply so I can say I’ve made my own shapes. :) At this point it’s only natural to start working more with Balsamiq as well as the CS4 programs (Fireworks vs. Illustrator vs. InDesign – wonder which will prove to work best for wireframing as well as blueprints?) I’ll actually have time to experiment since this upcoming weekend is one of the few this summer I’ll have off.