Where to Begin Flashcards
What is the percentage of CEO’s who aim to us UX as a competitive differentiator?
47%
What is the percentage of teams that measure customer experience quality?
53%
What is the percentage of people that track everything to improve experience quality?
33%
What is the industry stat of orgs that are supporting their UX team?
50%
What is user experience?
User experience is the “touch-point” that everything the customer or user has interacted with.
From PR to packaging, ads, Web, mobile or contact with a user interface.
It’s also the “impressions” that users or customers had with you. This can also mean they bring “expectations” to your design or to your brand impression.
It’s also a practice, guided by disciplines in Cognitive Science that help validate, define and design human-centered systems.
User experience is also a practice, and it’s guided by disciplines in
Cognitive Science
What is Cognitive Science?
A multidisciplinary field - psychology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, anthropology, and so forth.
What is the difference between Cognitive Science and UX?
Cognitive Science is about behavior and UX is about validating, defining and designing human-centered systems based on the way people thinking- perceptions, their actions and so forth.
What is a UX Designer?
An analyst, artist, an HCI specialist who represents user experience based on deep advocacy and understanding of users. Good UX designers use research to guide their designs.
They user research to guide their designs.
A UX Designer is NOT:
A lipstick maker, Photoshop, a creative skill, absent of the user.
What is the UX org chart?
CXO, Chief Experience Officer (leadership role, for keeping everything on track and developing competency)
UX Director (leadership role, for keeping everything on track and developing competency)
UX Manager (leadership role, for keeping everything on track and developing competency)
UX Lead (leadership role, for keeping everything on track and developing competency)
User Researcher
UX Designer
UX Architect
Visual Designer
Visual Designer
The person who actually makes it pretty
UX Designer usually has a background in
Graphic Design “but not just a designer”
UX Architect usually has a background in
Requirements/Dev (Front end code) but “not just a Developer”
Anyone who is involved with dev is focused on making the best code and the best release that they can. and they really don’t have the time to advocate for users, which is the whole point of UX.
UX Manager usually has a background in
UX but “not just a manager”. They don’t just go to meetings. They are helping out with a design. They are helping out with research. They’re “staying relevant”.
Most UX managers move strictly into pure management roles and lose their ability to keep the hand on the wheel and to be relevant, to learn, to experiement, and to pick up the empathy from users and customers directly.
Which of these is NOT a key skill for a UX Designer?
a. Must use research to guide designs.
b. Must have familiarity with Photoshop.
c. Must perform deep advocacy for users when designing.
b. Must have familiarity with Photoshop.
What does Frank Spillers’ super definition of UX cover?
a. UX covers a practice for human-centered design, all customer touchpoints, and the customer’s impression of a brand
b. UX covers the same as UI: design of user interfaces
c. UX covers all customer touchpoints, but it’s not a work practice.
a. UX covers a practice for human-centered design, all customer touchpoints, and the customer’s impression of a brand
What does Alison Gavine say is the primary function of a UX team?
User Advocacy