UX Design Roles

UX Design Roles
Researchers
Inoformation Architects
Usability Testers
Interaction Designers
Content Strategists


Important Traits / Skills to follow

  • Represent the customer point of view in business, user interface and technology decision-making
  • Understand the implications of market, competitive and business drivers for the user experience and communicate them to business and technology partners
  • Participate in various customer research efforts to define the customer-driven user experience
  • Produce site map, user flow, wireframe, page layout and UI specification deliverables for hand-off to technology
  • Provide guidance to product managers in defining and developing content taxonomies
  • Contribute to the development of and adhere to user interface and site design guidelines
  • Perform high-fidelity usability testing to validate designs with end-users
  • Provide guidance to technology during technical implementation to ensure user interface designs are implemented properly
  • Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT): issue identification and resolution.
  • Manage individual workload and deliver to agreed-upon project milestones
  • Work effectively within team to identify and resolve issues
  • Identify/mitigate risks to delivering solution on time
  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals at all levels
  • Strong visual design sense, familiarity with branding standards
  • User research: contextual inquiry, persona development, lo-fi and hi-fi usability testing
  • Ability to translate customer and business requirements into effective designs
  • Knowledge of user experience design, best practices and industry standards
  • Knowledge of user/customer-centered design and development approaches