| UX Design Roles |
| Researchers | |
| Inoformation Architects | |
| Usability Testers | |
| Interaction Designers | |
| Content Strategists | |
Important Traits / Skills to follow
- Represent the customer point of view in business, user interface and technology decision-making
- Understand the implications of market, competitive and business drivers for the user experience and communicate them to business and technology partners
- Participate in various customer research efforts to define the customer-driven user experience
- Produce site map, user flow, wireframe, page layout and UI specification deliverables for hand-off to technology
- Provide guidance to product managers in defining and developing content taxonomies
- Contribute to the development of and adhere to user interface and site design guidelines
- Perform high-fidelity usability testing to validate designs with end-users
- Provide guidance to technology during technical implementation to ensure user interface designs are implemented properly
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT): issue identification and resolution.
- Manage individual workload and deliver to agreed-upon project milestones
- Work effectively within team to identify and resolve issues
- Identify/mitigate risks to delivering solution on time
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals at all levels
- Strong visual design sense, familiarity with branding standards
- User research: contextual inquiry, persona development, lo-fi and hi-fi usability testing
- Ability to translate customer and business requirements into effective designs
- Knowledge of user experience design, best practices and industry standards
- Knowledge of user/customer-centered design and development approaches
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