[onion2k]

What helped you increase your UX skills?

I started caring about users. I decided that I genuinely want them to enjoy using what I build - not in a "hey that's cool" or "ooo that's beautiful" way, but in a "wow, doing that sucky task I have to do every day is a bit less sucky now" way. I put effort in to solving hard problems so I can make users lives a bit easier. It turns out that thinking this way also makes my job more fun.

[matwood]

This is what I was going to say, but even simpler...give a shit how the UI/UX works and looks. That means thinking about the details and how something is really used.