"As a 15+ year veteran of UX Design I can corroborate much of what Danielle is saying here, including having worked with multiple world-class UXers who made the transition from other design domains like ID. I pivoted from print/graphic design to UX myself early in my career. For anyone thinking about making the transition, I want to draw special attention to this excerpt:"I was not as fast as my peers when it comes to churning out wireframes, I didn't have the same level of sensitivity to the common patterns in UX Design compared to my colleagues who studied UX Design, and I was always catching up with the new few features in varying softwares."This is at the center of why I disagree with Zach W's previous comment. UX Designer is not a generic role that can be filled by anyone with reasonable taste and ongoing exposure to the internet. It is, in fact, a very mature craft with numerous, well-established best practices and it's these "anybody can do this" kinds of comments that can make UX Designers feel like they need to defend their turf and their craft. End users typically make lousy designers and I'd wager that's just as true in ID as it is in UX. If someone were to say that they're ready to be a professional chef because they've eaten at numerous nice restaurants and read many food blogs, we'd think they were a fool. Likewise, it's arrogant to think that my digital design taste is enough, or even that my other design skills translate one-to-one. Basically, if I'm looking at this transition thinking I've got little or nothing to learn, that's not going to set me up for success.So basically, if you're considering making the move to UX, don't mistake your sense of style and your familiarity with using the internet for actual UX expertise. Be humble, learn the patterns and best practices, learn how to gather high quality feedback and discern the right next move. Ground yourself in the craft of UX and then layer on all the other applicable skills you've picked up as an ID. "

"Lots to love here. It almost feels like a reinterpretation of some of the passport iconography. My biggest gripe is actually replacing Alexander Hamilton with Thomas Jefferson on the $10 bill. To me, that's a particularly egregious substitution. Between his cowardice during the Revolution and his laying the foundation for The Civil War to pay his own debts, Jefferson deserves a lot less founding father street cred than he gets. Hamilton, meanwhile, is barely remembered mostly because of the lies told by Jefferson and his cronies. This despite playing key roles in both the war and the foundation of how our country actually works. Ron Chernow's biography of Hamilton is great reading and lays all of that out in more detail than I care to repeat here. This book was also the inspiration for the musical, which is frankly far more charitable to Jefferson than his actions deserve. "