Her Story
About Khubra
Khubra Aman owns her own UX shop and has spent about 6 years in the UX Design industry. Her day-to-day involves reviewing design work for clients, including a website redesign and work with an AI startup to ensure user-friendly products and successful campaigns. She is passionate about how UX and AI overlap and can work together, and she also runs a college bakery as another passion. One of her most notable achievements is leading and supporting the launch of the online passport renewal system for the Department of State within the last 3 years. Khubra attributes her success to seeing people happy with what they receive and helping users. She values integrity and empathy in her work, advocating for users while bridging gaps with development teams. Her educational background includes a major in Communications and Media Management with a minor in Anthropology from George Mason University, a master's in Communications with a media management focus from Syracuse University, and she is currently pursuing a second master's at the University of Michigan Flint in human-centered interaction with a focus in AI. She advises pursuing what you love and feeling accomplished in your own work, noting that UX offers opportunities to apply empathy and understanding of people in many areas of life as the field continues to evolve.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Khubra
01What do you attribute your success to?
Honestly, with both UX and even my baking, just seeing people happy with what they receive. I really just enjoy people enjoying what they are using, or what they're eating in that sense. I guess I've worked for the users, so, just being able to help out anybody that's able even able to help out one person, you know, that's success to me.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Doing what you love, to me, is just is not work, it's something that I truly enjoy on a day-to-day basis, so my piece of advice to anybody is to, you know. just pursue the thing you love. It depends on what you're chasing. Understand what your goals are in the future and how you want to grow. It doesn't need to be something huge, it doesn't need to be something That scales into millions and millions of dollars. It just needs to make sure that you feel You feel, like, you feel accomplished with your own work. Be proud of
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Challenges, per se, is, I think. People are not fully educated as to what. UX is, and so they don't completely understand the need for it, always. the way I like to explain it is we like to advocate for the users, and, you know, people who get it, get it, people who don't who don't sometimes don't. But I guess a lot of opportunity is available there because you can literally apply the values of UX to anywhere in life. It's really just being able to empathize with the people around you, understanding how people work, understanding how they move and everything like that, being able to study that and see how people, you know, work through their day-to-day lives, which You don't think about it in the moment, because everybody's just busy, busy in the moment, but as you go through it. there's there's a ton you could do on a daily basis, and I think the work has only just started, and there's so much more to do, and the beauty the beautiful thing about UX is everything's always evolving and changing, especially in the tech world, so there's always something. to do.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity is one of the biggest things. If you don't have integrity, I don't think you could pursue a lot of the work that you want to. Integrity and empathy, I guess I would say those two things. Empathy, because it's a huge part of my work. I'm advocating for users and for development on the tech side, so my job is to bridge the gap between the two. So one, always be honest with what you're moving forward with. And empathize with the people around you. You never know what they're going through. You never know the struggles, between the two. There's always two sides. There's also there's always multiple sides to a story, so make sure you're keeping your eyes wide open for that.
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