Insightful.
Passionate.
Trusted.
Successful.
Relentless.
Darren W. Hood, MSUXD
UX professional, educator, podcaster, author
About
Darren
celebrating 29+ years of Ux
This site provides a holistic and immersive way to learn about veteran UX practitioner, Darren Hood. Visit the various sections to access info and evaluate how you can put Darren's 29 years of user-centered design and leadership expertise to work for your team!
Darren Hood Factoids
Serves as a Global UX Speaker
Skilled Across All 4 UX Pillars
Having entered the discipline of UX in the earlier days, Darren is skilled across all four major pillars of the discipline: Heuristics and usability, information architecture, UX research, and interaction and interface design.
Teaches at 5 Universities
Darren's expertise and domain knowledge positions him to teach UX and HCI courses at several institutions in the USA: Michigan State University, UCLA Extension, Brandeis University, Lawrence Technological University, and Champlain College.
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examples of darren's work
Testimonials
What people say about darren
I've had the absolute pleasure of working closely with Darren Hood on several initiatives at BD and I highly recommend Darren for any principal-level User Experience position. Darren is an exceptional UX professional with a deep understanding of the design process. His ability to seamlessly navigate the entire spectrum of UX activities, coupled with his keen eye for detail and unwavering commitment to excellence, consistently results in impactful solutions.
Darren is able to effectively articulate design feedback and recommendations that are congruent with best practices. He has mentored me in my role helped me align UX strategy with business goals. Darren has high standards, discipline, integrity and a wonderful personality. I highly recommend him for any UX leadership role, UX design, strategy, or researcher role.
Worked on multiple projects with Darren. His design skills are high level. Anything that needed design for the projects were perfection. Clear concise and easy for someone to utilize and understand. He is always able to make a UI look as if “this is what it supposed to look like”, “this is the best way for users to interact with the software” Great positive attitude, loves UX and is Always available to educate and level up those around him.
