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Friday morning, little pass 10:30am. Quickly I finished replying work emails and walked through some tasks with our intern. Then like a gust of wind, I ran off to the bus tunnel to catch the 73 express. My destination: University of Washington campus.

Not until I was in the bus speeding on I-5 northbound, I realized it has being exactly 10 years since I last ended my school life.

I didn’t expect I’d go back to school. For years, I believed the real learning came from working in the field. I stand correctly. But overtimes, new attitudes and methodologies are merging and shaping the world of web based design. The more I exposed myself to the new design principles, the more I felt that acquiring such knowledge through job force were limiting and difficult to come by. Everybody is talking about it, but nobody has the absolute answers.

So I applied to the User-Centered Design certification program in University of Washington, going back to the good old academic learning. To make sure I can handle school and work at the same time, I took only 1 weekly course this quarter. The course, “Seminar in Technical Communication”, will invite speakers from various technology fields to talk about their experiences in applying user-centered design process to actual software development.

After the lecture, I took advantage of the nice weather and walked my way out of the campus. I’m enjoying every bit of this is because this is so out of what I’m accustomed to between working and being a home buddy.