UX Designer.md

3 Major Types

• Interaction Designer: user interaction
• Visual Designer: looks ex font, colors
• Motion Designer: smooth transition

UX Researcher (conducts studies or interviews to help in knowing how people use the product) -> UX Writer (Think about how to make the language within a product clearer: make user experience moe intuitive) -> Product Desginer (Assets are handed off to engerineering team) -> UX Engineer (Translate the design's intent into a functioning experience ex web,app) -> UX Program Mangers (writing program goals)

Product development lifecycle

• Brainstorming: UX Researchers are heavily involved
• Define: who is it for, what it do, critical features
• Designing: who the user is, what they want, challanges, create story-boards, wireframe, prototypes
• Test: feedback from potential user
• Launch

Characteristics of a good user experience

• usable, equitable, enjoyable, and useful

User-centered design

• Understand, Specify, Design, Evaluate --> Iterate

The five elements of design

• Strategy -> Scope -> Structure -> Skeleton -> Surface

Design thinking process

• Empathize -> Define -> Ideate -> Prototype -> Test

Lean UX

• Think -> Make -> Check

Double Diamond

• Discover -> Define -> Develop -> Deliver

4 Cs

• Consistency, Continuity, Context, Complementary

Keep this into consideration

• Screen Size, Interaction, Content Layout, Functionality

Design for accessibility

• Universal design (one hat fits all), inclusive (focus on one, expand for many), equity-focused (designing for uplifing groups)

Five phases of design sprints

• Understand -> Ideate -> Decide -> Prototype -> Test