What is UX Design?
UX stands for “User Experience” and UX design is the process of designing a user experience for a product. The basic idea is to make the screen flow easily, simply, matching the user’s mental model. UX works based on the “Human First Design” approach, where the user’s point of view, behavior, and ideas are kept front and center to design an experience that matches their expectations. UX makes things very obvious for users, making things obvious would help in quick navigation and meeting their goals.
A UI/UX designer comprehends people, articulates their issues, and designs creative solutions that can be prototyped and tested. UI/UX designers employ design thinking and incorporate design principles and frameworks to develop the most optimal solution for a problem. Though UI and UX are 2 separate fields that lead with different OKRs.
A UX designer is someone who understands the problem, carries out research, ideate and brainstorm design solutions then create wireframes that are further refined to get pixel-perfect screens. They also facilitate usability testing to verify that the conceptual model is aligned with the mental model.
A UI designer is someone who is responsible for making pixel-perfect designs, by adding the best graphics and screen elements. Picking the right color and making the boxy wireframes the actual screens is something they do.
Both UX and UI are related and dependent on each other, we can understand them as the human body where UX is the brain(deciding overall experience) and UI is the skin(giving the best look and aesthetic to experience).
Before making the final decision of which job you want to do, ask yourself a question that would help you come up with a clear picture of what is right for you. Please generally follow the trend and forget to ask what they want, it is very important to start with. Ask yourself what is right for you based on what you are good at, such as:
How to Become a UI/UX Designer: A Complete Roadmap
Never been to a design school, but want to become a UI/UX designer? Worry not! It’s not that hard.
Many successful and amazing UI/UX designers are self-taught which means they also never went to a design school and don’t have a design degree. It is pretty common in the design field as it only requires one to have skills and passion to solve complex problems through designing digital experiences. On the other hand, some designers opt to enroll in a UI/UX design course or boot camp program and even have a design degree. Both ways lead to a successful design job.
There are many ways to learn UI/UX design, and there isn’t a right or wrong way to do so. It all boils down to understanding effective design principles and honing them through practice.
Here in this article, we’ll look at a complete roadmap for finding a job as a UI/UX designer.
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