UX Design
Staffing & Recruiting

A UX Designer is responsible for creating or improving the accessibility and usability of user experiences. To accomplish this, a UX Designer's role requires a strong balance of understanding the end user as well as knowledge of digital design best practices. From conducting user research to prototyping and usability testing, a User Experience designer requires problem solving skills and a deep knowledge of the design process.

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While user experience design is truly its own area of expertise, it's worth noting that many employers who are advertising for a “UX Designer” in today’s market do also expect applicants to have UI and visual design skills. Additionally, there may be some overlap with roles such as UX Researcher or Strategist as some employers require UX Designers to also conduct some of these responsibilities as well. We will get into the details of the distinctions between these roles below.

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Guide to UX Roles ↗

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Role & Responsibilities:

• Problem Definition: discussing the project with other stakeholders to ensure that the problem is fully explored and clearly defined.
• Primary Research: identifying target user groups, and conducting interviews and other forms of inquiry to help understand user needs.
• Secondary Research: including competitor analysis, product feature analysis, and examination of analogous products and adjacent markets.
• Research Analysis: through techniques like affinity mapping and persona building, and the creation of user flows and task flows.
• Wireframing: wireframes appear often as part of design processes. Depending on the team, the UX designer might create anything from a low-fidelity wireframe (taking the form of quick thumbnail sketches on paper or in your design software) or a high-fidelity wireframe, which is much more detailed.
• Prototyping: similarly, the UX designer may make a prototype from the wireframe content. Early, low-fidelity prototyping helps to validate ideas before investing lots of time in creating final screen designs.
• User testing: the UX designer often leads user testing of high-fidelity prototypes and near-final products. In this situation, their role is to observe pain points for the user, and other possible weaknesses in the design.