A guide to user experience job salaries, skills and hot hiring locations

User experience (UX) is a rapidly growing profession that’s attracting high caliber talent from all areas of design, development and marketing. Over the past 16 months, creative recruiting company Onward Search collected data on job listings and noticed a 338 percent increase in postings for user experience professionals. Onward Search commissioned my company,?NowSourcing, to take that data and create this graphic.

This infographic breaks down the most useful information about user experience careers to help hiring managers, as well as creative professionals of all levels, successfully navigate this rapidly evolving industry. It’s a visual introduction to the job descriptions, requisite skill sets, salary averages and top hiring spots for UX professionals around the country.

Brian Wallace is the President of NowSourcing, a premier social media firm specializing in infographic design, development and content marketing promotion. The company is based in Louisville, Ky. and works with companies that range from small business to Fortune 500.

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Apple requiring an "innovative, experience of the category-Killer" for potential range low iPhone

Barron, reports on a brief note analyst of RBC markets of capital Mike Abramsky, who shares some of his "points" of a meeting with Apple Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer.

According to the memorandum, Cook and Oppenheimer continue to believe in a "massive opportunity" for Apple in China, see the potential for significant growth it with the recent explosion of the company at $ 9 billion in annual revenue for the market is only the beginning.

Many consider that the introduction of iPhone low-cost market prepaid to key to the future success of Apple in China and many other countries, and Apple executives have noted that such a device would be "an innovative experience, category-killer". Cook and Oppenheimer obviously does not specifically confirm plans to launch a low-cost iPhone, but it is clear that Apple is working hard to find a way to enter and succeed in this market. They include the fact that Apple has "massive opportunity" in China, with the market "significantly untapped" y despite revenues of the Apple of 9 billion dollars in the country. Despite an "explosion" of devices based on Google (GOOG) "Android" operating system, Apple may retain a competitive advantage through its integration of hardware and software and its "curation" of the "ecosystem of application".

On a low-cost iPhone, Abramsky wrote that "the primary test of Apple to launch iPhone in lower - end is an innovative experience, category-killer."

Other topics of discussion included word that Apple gross margins for the quarter may be better than expected due to currently be a "purchaser of the market" for components and the efforts of the company to settle with the Android phone manufacturers in the many ongoing patent disputes.

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