Week 1 Flashcards
Team of creatives hired by clients to build marketing campaigns.
Advertising agencies
Provides on-the-job training to help people develop real skills
Apprenticeships
Everything from the text and images to the design specifications, like font style, color, size, and spacing
Assets
A one-stop shop for the look of brands, products, and services
Design studio
The ability to understand someone else’s feelings or thoughts in a situation
Empathy
Designers who work for themselves and market their services to businesses to find customers
Freelancers
A UX Designer with a broad number of responsibilities
Generalist
Create visuals that tell a story or message
Graphic designer
The framework of a website or how it’s organized, categorized, and structured
Information architecture
Focus on designing the experience of a product and how it functions
Interaction designers
Think about what it feels like for a user to move through a product
Motion designers
A good, service, or feature
Product
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
Production designers
An early model of a product that demonstrates functionality
Prototype
A designer who dives deep into one particular type of user experience, like interaction design, visual design, or motion design.
Specialist
A new business that wants to develop a unique product or service and bring it to market
Startup
A designer who specializes in one kind of user experience (e.g., interaction, visual, motion) and has a breadth of knowledge in other areas
T-shaped designer
How a person, the user, feels about interacting with, or experiencing, a product
User experience
Translate the design’s intent into a functioning experience
Ux engineers
Ensure clear and timely communication so that the process of building a useful product moves smoothly from start to finish
UX program managers
Understand users and learn about their backgrounds, demographics, motivations, pain points, emotions, and life goals
UX research
A type of researcher that conducts studies or interviews to learn about the users of a product and how people use a product
UX researchers
Create the language that appears throughout a digital product, like websites or mobile apps
UX writers
Focus on how the product or technology looks
Visual designers
An outline or a sketch of a product or a screen
Wireframe
The visual appearance and voice of a company
Brand Identity
A way to create solutions that address a real user problem and are functional and affordable
Design thinking
The specific audience a UX designer creates something for
End user
Steps a designer takes to turn an idea into a working product. The five elements are strategy, scope, structure, skeleton, and surface, where each element refers to a specific layer involved in creating the user experience.
Five elements of UX Design
Creates the basic structure that focuses and supports the problem you’re trying to solve, like an outline for a project
Framework
Doing something again, by building on previous versions and making tweaks
Iteration
The medium that users experience your product on
Platform
Allows a website to change automatically depending on the size of the device
Responsive web design
Any person who uses a product
User
Puts the user front-and-center
User-centered design
