Terms Flashcards
Advertising agencies
Teams of creatives hired by clients to build marketing campaigns
Apprenticeships
Provides on-the-job training to help people develop real skills
Assets
Everything from the text and images to the design specifications, like font style, color, size, and spacing
Design Agency
A one-stop shop for the look of brands, products, and services
Empathy
The ability to understand someone else’s feelings or thoughts in a situation
Freelancers
Designers who work for themselves and market their services to businesses to find customers
Generalist
A UX designer with a broad number of responsibilities
Graphic designers
Create visuals that tell a story or message
Information architecture
The framework of a website or how it’s organized, categorized, and structured
Interaction designers
Focus on designing the experience of a product and how it functions
Internship
A short term job with limited responsibility
Motion designers
Think about what it feels like for a user to move through a product
Product
A good, service, or feature
Production designers
Make sure first and final designs match in the finished project materials and that the assets are ready to be handed off to engineering team
Prototype
An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality
Specialist
A designer who dives deep into one particular type of user experience, like interaction design, visual design, or motion design
Startup
A new business that wants to develop a unique product or service and bring it to market
T-shaped designer
A designer who specializes in one kind of user experience (e.g., interaction, visual, motion) and has a breadth of knowledge in other areas
UX designers
Focus on how users interact with a product
User experience
How a person, the user, feels about interacting with, or experiencing, a product
UX engineers
Translate the design’s intent into a functioning experience
UX program managers
Ensure clear and timely communication so that the process of building a useful product moves smoothly from start to finish
UX research
Understand users and learn about their backgrounds, demographics, motivations, pain points, emotions, and life goals
UX researchers
A type of researcher that conducts studies or interviews to learn about the users of a product and how people use a product
UX writers
Create the language that appears throughout a digital product, like websites or mobile apps
Visual designers
Focus on how the product or technology looks
Wireframe
An outline or a sketch of a product or a screen
