Career Simulation
English forUX Designers
Your First Month on the Job
Make the user's experience understandable.
Work through a product redesign as a junior UX designer. Practice English for research, design choices, usability findings and handoffs.
Coming Soon
English for UX Designers: Career Simulation · Get launch updates
Hear when it launches.
Join Scott’s email list for free lessons, course offers and release news. We’ll also save your interest in this course. Enrollment is not open yet.
One email list for lessons and course news. Unsubscribe at any time. Signing up does not enroll you in a course.
English for the situations you face.
Help improve a fictional exception-resolution workflow. Move from research and synthesis to prototypes, testing, accessibility and explaining your design to the team.
Ask a useful research question
Invite a participant to explain an action without suggesting the answer.
Describe what you observed
Report a behavior separately from your interpretation of it.
Explain a design choice
Connect the proposed change to a user need and the evidence available.
Prepare a handoff
Clarify states, interactions and questions that still need a decision.
Picture one workday.
A participant pauses at the final step.
An original example of the planned learning approach. The workplace and project are fictional.
The situation
In a usability session, a participant reads a button twice and asks whether the action can be undone. The team wants your finding.
What you practice
Use observed actions first. Introduce an interpretation with may or suggests, and keep it separate from what the participant actually did.
A response to build toward
The participant reread the button and asked whether the action could be undone. This may suggest that the consequence was unclear.
Your next step
Write an evidence-based observation and a question to investigate next.
A workday with something to say.
A message arrives. A teammate needs an answer. Scott helps you understand the situation and build the English to respond.
- 1
Meet the situation
Start with a workplace request, a conversation or a document.
- 2
Build your English
Learn useful vocabulary, sentence patterns and ways to express your meaning.
- 3
Prepare your response
Follow a model, rehearse your wording and work through the task.
- 4
Use it and review
Practice the exchange, record the key points and connect them to the next workday.
The planned experience follows 30 workdays across six simulated weeks. Study at your own pace; “your first month” describes the experience, not a completion deadline.
Career Simulation
Bring your career knowledge. Build your English.
Designed for learners around B1+ who already understand the basics of their field in any language. You do not need perfect English; you should be able to follow everyday explanations and form a simple response.
This is English and workplace communication practice. It is not a professional qualification or a promise of a job, promotion or language-level result.
Teaching is planned in English. Subtitle languages and final course details will be confirmed before release.
Try one useful skill now.
A focused free lesson with explained answers. It stands on its own; the course is planned as a longer, connected workplace experience.
Good to know
Before you join the list
Can I enroll now?
Not yet. This course is coming soon, and no release date has been announced. The signup saves your interest so Scott can send release news.
Is this a real job or company placement?
No. You practice inside a fictional workplace. There is no employment placement, access to a real employer or professional certification.
Do I need to finish it in one month?
No. The plan follows 30 workdays across six simulated weeks. You study at your own pace.
Will the course teach me the profession from scratch?
It focuses on English and communication for the role. You should already have basic knowledge of the field; this does not replace technical or professional training.
Can I follow more than one course?
Yes. Sign up on each course page that interests you. Your course choices are saved together on Scott’s email list.