User Experience (UX) designer

The aspects that define how a user interacts with a product or service are designed with a user's experience in mind. UX design shapes the goods and services we use on a regular basis to make them user-friendly, effective, and pleasurable. It has the power to make or shatter a company's or brand's success.

The goal of UX designers is to create technology, services, and products that are as accessible and user-friendly as feasible. To balance user needs with technical viability and commercial viability, they apply design thinking.

Making a product or service functional, pleasurable, and accessible is the responsibility of the UX designer. Although many businesses create user experiences, the phrase is most frequently connected to digital design for websites and mobile applications. The general phases of design typically remain the same, even though the precise method changes from product to product and company to company.

The vocabulary of UX design

It's helpful to identify a few words you could run into while working in the area before we get into the fundamentals of UX design. To help you get started, here are few terms to remember:

• A technique for comparing two iterations of a product or service to determine which is more successful is called A/B testing.
   
• Accessibility is the idea of a service or product being usable by people of all abilities, regardless of their circumstances.
   
• To define information architecture, participants organise information into logical groups during a Card-sorting session.
   
• The person who will utilise a finished good or service after buying it is the end user.
   
• The study of Human-computer interaction looks at how computers are made and how people interact with them.
   
• Information architecture is the process of organising data such that it is easier to understand.
   
• A realistic visual representation of how a finished website or application would appear is called Mock-up.
   
• A fictionalised depiction of your ideal customer's wants, objectives, and behaviours is known as a Persona.
   
• A Prototype is a sample or simulation of the finished product that is tested and evaluated.
   
• An illustration of the steps a user takes to use a product or service is called a User flow.
   
• Using a Wireframe, a web page layout devoid of visual design can be prioritized according to user demands.
   

You will manage the complete range of users' perceptions and interactions with a certain brand as a UX designer. Depending on the type and size of the organisation you work for, your specific responsibilities may change. For instance, you might develop front-end e-commerce websites for the online retail industry or work on a public information and guidance website for the government.

However, you'll often have to do the following as a UX designer:  Meet with clients to learn about their needs, develop user personas, user journeys, and site maps; suggest and sketch out a variety of graphic concepts both on paper and utilising software applications; Use specialised tools, such as Axure, InVision, Marvel, OmniGraffle, Visio, Sketch, as well as the Adobe product suite, to translate thoughts into wireframes, prototypes, and user flows; design cross-platform apps to create user interfaces for computers, tablets, and mobile devices;  participate in meetings to discuss and review project progress; run workshops for clients and internal stakeholders; work collaboratively with other designers, product design and development teams, business analysts, engineers, and project managers; regularly communicate with clients to ensure that designs meet their requirements and core business objectives; Keep abreast of technological advancements and new tools;  Write reports and convey the results of your work; Identify areas for improvement; Redesign websites to make them more responsive; and  Redesign or create mobile apps that are simple to use and configured properly for smart phones and tablets.

In a senior position, you will also be expected to:  Monitor research and insight projects to understand user needs; Manage, mentor, and support more junior members of the UX design team; and Ensure that all colleagues in the organization are aware of UX design practices.

Route to become a UX Designer

• 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
• B.Sc. in Computer Science/ B.E. in Computer Science/ B.C.A./ B.Tech. in Computer Science 
• M.C.A./ M.E. in Computer Science/ M.Sc. in Computer Science/ M.Tech. in Computer Science

Significant Statistics

• Students are required to appear in the entrance examination to get admissions in their desired Engineering or Technology College
• The Popular entrance exams are- JEE Main, SRM JEE, JEE Advanced, IPU CET, BIT SAT, AMU EE, VITEEE, KEAM EE
   

Pros:

• It's exciting and hard to interview individuals and learn habits and intents that you otherwise would not have known.
• There is a lot of intrinsic joy in helping design helpful and meaningful experiences for the intended user.
• Providing designs that are supported by science feels AMAZING.
• A strategic and creative role.
• UX designers get to devote a lot of time to studying consumers' wants, drives, and behaviours. They are able to create designs that genuinely satisfy user needs.
• UX designers contribute to the design and user appeal of websites, mobile apps, digital products, and other services. They have a significant influence on the goods that people use.

Cons:

• While it ought to be the beginning point for many design endeavours, many organisations still see the UX practise as a checkpoint in a linear design approach.
• Despite growing recognition, UX design is still occasionally undervalued as a crucial role.
• If your job title includes the word "designer," you will likely encounter many positions that require you to focus solely on graphic design. It's not always the case that UX designers receive the same recognition or pay as engineers.
• Problem-solving and the UX design process can occasionally come across as unclear, unorganised, and subjective rather than tangible or measurable. This ambiguity might make it difficult to convince stakeholders or to demonstrate the value that UX design adds.
• A lack of employment options.