TeenLife 2024 Your Future in STEM Guide

Most fragrance chemists, according to a TwigEducation
piece, have degrees in chemistry or biochemistry, often
high-level ones like PhDs. To that end, you can also
become a cosmetic scientist, using chemistry to concoct
the creams and balms that we use daily for better skin
and hair.
Many of these jobs are focused on contributing
something concrete to the world. It comes from a
curiosity for life and how to advance whatever causes
you’re working on. If that description fits you, you could
take classes incorporating human-centered design. The
principle of the discipline is to make sure technology
accommodates human needs — to work with whatever
systems you’re using to make them as easy as possible
to use.
No matter what kind of technology you’re using or what
work you’re doing, it needs to be easy for people to use.
An introduction from the Interaction Design Foundation
lists the way computers evolved to prompt you to save
your work as one example. Early computers wouldn’t
prompt users to save their work at all before turning the
computer off. Then that evolved into a pop-up box asking
if you wanted to save, and now, modern computers
auto-save. whether you prompt them to or not. That’s
an example of human-centered design — technology
evolving based on what makes peoples’ work easier.
Numerous schools offer programs for human-centered
design. As stated in a piece by Whitman College
(Walla Walla, Washington), which is now offering a
concentration in the field, human-centered design is a
broad set of tools. It can be paired with other fields of
study and used to tackle problems as varied as climate
change and accessibility for those with different needs
in the digital world, according to Michelle Janning, the
Raymond and Elsie DeBurgh Chair of Social Sciences and
professor of sociology, as quoted by Whitman College.
With persistence and passion, you are sure to find a
career in STEM that can keep you engaged and fulfilled.
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