Endless questions about mysterious UX
Is UX a job or a skill?
Why combine UX and UI?
Do we still need Business Analysts and Solution Architects?
3 main components of the design
Responsibilities
- research of user needs
- (research similar work done by competitors)
- creation of logic wireframes of the interface
- prototype testing
- writing design specifications
Specializations
- UX Researcher
- UX writer
- Information Architect
- UX/UI designer
- UX strategist
Hard skills required
- UX Research
- Wireframing & prototyping
- Visual communication
- Interactive design
- Design thinking
- User flows
- Interaction design
- Testing designs
- Decision mapping
- Information architecture
- Mood boarding
- Visual & UI design
- Coding—up for debate, more on this later
UX system modelling process from sketch to prototype
Project phases from Design to Code
From UX Architect to a Product (UX+UI) Designer
Problem deinition:
When it comes to design jobs, there is this position that every company seems to be looking for — Product Designer. What used to be called UX/UI designer, is now an expanded position, in which the designer is required to be a UX generalist, and go through the whole process of business understanding, user research, ideation and graphic design. Regardless if it makes sense or not, or if you agree with this “generalist” trend — let’s face it, this is de-facto what the industry is looking for.
Nati
I got to grasp this situation a year ago, when I found myself thinking of a new job, and being confronted with a barrier — as an experienced UX architect and researcher who didn’t do UI, I was dismissed for cool jobs in the companies that I was most interested in working with.
Nati