Anthro to UX is a career coaching service that helps anthropology students and early to mid-career anthropologists move into user experience research, product, and design roles in industry. Founded on the premise that anthropology offers a natural foundation for UX work, the company translates academic training in ethnographic methods, cultural analysis, and qualitative research into the language and portfolio formats that tech-sector hiring managers recognize. Its mission is to close the gap between the degrees anthropologists earn and the jobs they can hold.
The company offers four one-on-one coaching services: informational interviews, resume reviews, portfolio reviews, and practice job interviews. Each session runs in a short, focused format ranging from thirty to seventy-five minutes, priced from fifty to one hundred and twenty-five dollars. Together, these services map onto a four-step career transition framework that begins with reviewing past research experience, continues by researching and targeting specific UX roles, reframes that experience to fit those roles, and ends with a tailored application strategy designed to translate anthropological training into a UX-ready resume and portfolio.
Anthro to UX was founded by Matt Artz, who built the service as a structured alternative to the informal mentoring and improvised self-teaching that most anthropologists rely on when considering a career pivot. Drawing on his own experience moving from academic training into senior product and user experience roles at technology companies, he designed the service around the reframing work he found most useful in his own transition. The approach treats anthropology as a source of methodological strength for UX rather than as a barrier to entry into the field.
Alongside the coaching service, Matt produces the Anthro to UX podcast, a separate project in which he interviews anthropologists working in user experience research about how they made the transition, what they learned, and what they would do differently. The podcast shares the brand but runs as its own editorial project. Anthro to UX maintains public-facing profiles on LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and Twitter under the handle @AnthroToUX.