1.9 What is a UX Designer and How do you Become One? Flashcards
What’re the five things that will help you continually become a good UX designer
Doing the craft, communicating brilliantly, embracing complex and wicked problems, thinking flexibly, learning to learn
Do the craft of UX design as often as you can.
Look for opportunities to learn and master the tools of UX everyday. Such as pen and paper, Sketch, Figma, XD. Use those tools to create artifacts like sketches, flowcharts, wireframes, mockups, prototypes and design documentation.
As often as you can, familiarize yourself with UX design processes such as user research, user testing and design critique.
Communicate Brilliantly
you are always a critical node in a network of communications. The more you can clarify every piece of information that you create or interpret before sharing it with others, the better off your organization will be.
make it understandable
help people trust logic
help people get behind it
make it actionable
Embrace complex and wicked problems
To consistently become the best UX designer you can be, you will need to not just tolerate but also embrace the idea of working on difficult problems. You must thing FLEXIBLY
what are three types of problems UX designers encounter?
-Simple ( clear definition, simple chain of cause and effect, and a testable solution)
- Complex ( less-clear definition, multi-directional chains of cause and effect, and solutions that are harder to test)
- Wicked (multiple definitions, multiple explanations of cause and effect, and no immediately testable solutions )
What are the four types of thinking?
- Science thinking (change what we know about the physical and social worlds / facts are observed and discovered)
- Art thinking (change human perception)
- Engineering thinking (change the structure of physical world / facts are discovered and changed)
- Design thinking (change the structure of the physical and social worlds / value is created not discovered)
