For a while, her family didn’t quite get what she was doing, but once she started working for the Disney streaming portfolio-which means working horizontally on Disney+, Hulu, and Star+-it started to click.
It is very similar to our public relations curriculum, and that’s what I liked about it,” she said.įoster loves that her job allows her to flex her creative side along with collaborating and problem solving. I want to partner with the designers and the product managers and also do the content strategy and writing piece. “It’s such a niche practice but it’s growing, and because I have such diverse writing experience, I don’t want to let that go. She said content design focuses on partnering with various stakeholders on a project, such as product managers, analytics specialists, and UX designers to ensure business goals align with customer goals, and to make a product very customer-centric. Content design combines a lot of the skills she gained through her classes at the College of Communication and Information with what she learned through her certification program (which, Foster was thrilled to learn CCI now offers a major in UX design). After that, she moved to Atlanta in social media and then discovered UX design.įoster underwent a certification program in UX design and began pursuing her career in the field, eventually finding her specialty in content design. She was encouraged by Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations Professor Mariea Hoy to apply for the 4A’s Multicultural Advertising Intern Program, which she did, and was placed in New York City the internship allowed her to experience big city life and work for the first time and learn more about what her future could look like. I was also in a sorority, and we did a lot of community service, and those are people that I still connect with even with being out in LA.”Īs Foster gained a variety of experiences in college, her vision of the big things she wanted to do continued to evolve. “You don’t have to go away to get a sense of growth and development, you can get it at UT, but you have to stay active. “The professors and a lot of the people I met at UT encouraged me to intern and they said, you don’t have to figure it out, this is the time to experience all of it,” she said.
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As a Knoxville native, Foster wasn’t sure she would get the full college experience if she attended UT, but was pleasantly surprised to find out that wasn’t the case. Even while she was at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she remained undecided about what she would do for quite some time. Her work in the field of user experience (UX) design, including her previous position as a lead content designer at Paypal and Venmo, resulted in her being one of the 2023 Volunteer 40 Under 40.įor Foster, finding her way into her current field of work wasn’t a straight line. Volunteer 40 Under 40 Translates ADPR Skills Into UX Design CareerĬreativity and curiosity have been integral traits in Alexis Foster’s (’12) life and career, and definitely played a role in her becoming a senior product designer and content strategist for the Disney+ and Hulu.
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