UX Design

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Accessibility

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the design of products, devices, services, or environments or people with disabilities

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Advertising agencies

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Teams of creatives hired by clients to build marketing campaigns

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Alternative text (alt text)

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Text that helps translate something visual, such as an image or graph, into a description that can be read by screen readers

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Apprenticeships

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provides on-the-job training to help people develop real skills

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Assets

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Everything from the text and images to the design specifications, like font style, color, size, and spacing

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Assistive technology

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any products, equipment, or systems that enhance learning, working and daily living for people with disabilities

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Bias

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Favoring or having prejudice against something based on limited information

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Brand Identity

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The visual appearance and voice of a company

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Call-to-action (CTA)

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A visual prompt that tells the user to take action, like to click a button

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Color modification

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Features that increase the contrast of colors on a screen like high-contrast mode or dark mode

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Confirmation Bias

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Occurs when you start looking for evidence to prove a hypothesis you have

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Define

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The phase of design thinking that involves leveraging the insights gained during the empathize phase to identify the problem you’ll solve with your design

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Design Agency

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a one-stop shop for the look of brands, products, and services

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Design Research

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Answers the question: How should we build it?

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Design Sprint

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A time-bound process, with five phases typically spread over five full 8-hour days. The goal of design sprints is to answer the critical business questions through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users

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Design thinking

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A UX design framework that focuses on the user throughout all five phases: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and text

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Digital Literacry

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A user’s level of ability related to using digital information and technologies

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Empathize

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the phase of design thinking that involves getting to know your user through research

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Empathy

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the ability to understand someone else’s feelings or thoughts in a situation

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Equality

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Providing the same amount of opportunity and support

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Equality-focused design

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Designing for groups that have been historically underrepresented or ignored when building products

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False consensus bias

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The assumption that others will think the same way as you do

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Foundational research

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Answers the questions: What should we build? What are the user problems? How can we solve them?

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Framework

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Creates the basic structure that focuses and support the problem you’re trying to solve

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Freelances

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Designers who work for themselves and market their services to business to find customers

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Generalist

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A UX designer with a broad number of responsibilities

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Graphic designers

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Create visuals that tell a story or message

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Ideate

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The phase of design thinking that involves brainstorming all potential solutions to the user’s problem

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Ideation

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The process of generating a broad set of ideas on a given toping, with no attempt to judge or evaluate them

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Implicit bias

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the collection of attitudes and stereotypes you associate with people without your conscious knowledge

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Inclusive design

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Making design choices that take into account personal identifiers like ability, race, economic status, language, age, and gender

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Information architecture

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The framework of a website or how it’s organized, categorized, and structured

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Insight

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An observation that helps you understand the user or their needs from a new perspective

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Interviews

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A research method used to collect in-depth information on people’s opinions, thoughts, experiences, and feelings

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Interaction designers

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Focus on designing the experience of a product and how it functions

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Iterate

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Revise the original design to create a new and improved version

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Iteration

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Doing something again, by building on previous versions and making tweaks

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Internship

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A short term job with limited responsibility

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Key performance indicators (KPI’s)

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Critical measures of progress toward an end goal

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Motion designers

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Think about what it feels like for a user to move through a product

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Platform

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The medium that users experience your product on

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Post-launch research

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Answers the question: Did we succeed?

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Primacy bias

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Remember the first user more than others

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Product

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A good, service, or feature

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Primary research

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Research you conduct yourself

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Production designers

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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

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Prototype

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An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality