User Experience
User experience (UX) designers use research and design skills to craft products that effectively serve end users. As advocates for users, they ensure that project requirements include user needs and expectations as well as the business needs of stakeholders and clients.
UX designers conduct user research to identify user goals and expectations, and lead the design process from general concept to detailed UI appearance. Designing is iterative — generating possible solutions, user-testing those designs, and revising based on these results, until the solution is efficient, enjoyable, and easy to use.
Within the core team, UX designers share design best practices, create the user interface, and validate prototyped solutions. They work closely with analysts to define system interactions and flows, and polish these into an effective solution. UX designers collaborate with developers to make sure that proposed designs are technically feasible and accurately translated to working code.
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Activities
- Perform heuristic analysis on existing sites to identify usability issues
- Conduct user research
- Research competing products/solutions
- Help analysts and clients identify & document business objectives
- Design and build prototypes and mockups at various degrees of fidelity
- Test designed solutions, and revise designs based on test results
- Capture and document user workflows
- Share research on users and best practices
- Lead design reviews
- Provide visual and interface designs
Key Products
- Journey maps, storyboards, wireframes, site maps and site flows
- Usability test plans, analyses, and reports
- Mockups, prototypes, and page specs
- Visual design/UI concepts and guides
- User personas