User Experience (UX)may be your next career

“User Experience (UX) covers pretty much everything experienced by the user of a design or service.”

Fields of User Experience

• Present solutions and concepts

• Persuade others

• Analyze tasks or activities

• Build prototypes or wireframes

• Collaborate with subject-matter experts

• Gather requirements

• Specify interaction design

• Conduct in-person usability studies

• Create storyboards, user journeys, flow

diagrams

• Perform design reviews or heuristic evaluations

Top 10 things UX designer do

• Review data from analytics• Usability-test clickable prototype• write user story or use case• make personas• Conduct Survey• Conduct field study, interview• Make training information for users• Usability-test paper prototype• Evaluate accessibility• Conduct competitive review• Test manual, tutorial, help, instructions• Conduct card-sorting study• Analyze search logs• Interpret or collect eye tracking data.

the list goes on…

then what is next?

START THINKING FROM USER PERSPECTIVE.

Theory of Affordance

Try to design for zero data case

Show Benefits instead of features.

Tyr exposing options instead of hiding them.

Improve Home Page Caraousel  

Try Benefit Buttons instead of just task based ones. 

Clear Selected items

Try More Contrast instead of similarity

Try Icon Labels instead of opening for interpretation. 

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