The 'User Experience' or UX as is it known in the industry is a relatively new concept in the design of software, web pages, mobile apps and anything else where a human is interacting with technology.
"...any aspect of a user's experience with a given system, including the interface, graphics, industrial design, physical interaction, and the manual." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design,
"User experience (abbreviated as UX) is how a person feels when interfacing with a system. The system could be a website, a web application or desktop software and, in modern contexts, is generally denoted by some form of human-computer interaction (HCI)... The term “user experience” was coined by Dr. Donald Norman, a cognitive science researcher who was also the first to describe the importance of user-centered design (the notion that design decisions should be based on the needs and wants of users)." - http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/05/what-is-user-experience-design-overview-tools-and-resources/
Australian User Experience Conference - http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/
http://uxdesign.com/ux-defined
Salary:
$70,000 to $80,000 with 2+ years experience
$100,000 to $150,000 for senior roles
www.jobs.com.au
Creative Processes:
As a designer the creative process will include defining the project, concept design, feedback from the client, producing a design, evaluation and making revisions to the design.
Here is list of tasks involved in UX design from http://www.anniestudio.org/a-lean-ux-design-process/
- Discovery
- User Research
- Information Architecture
- Conceptual Model
- Wire Framing
- Interaction Design
- Visual Design & Style Guide
- Story Boarding
- Prototyping
- Logo & Website design
- GUI design
From the same site is this is Annie's lean creative process:
- Discovery
- Wire frame
- Prototype
- Validate Internally
- Test Externally
- Summarise
- Iterate
The following websites showed similar processes, but with each taking a different approach.
http://www.slideshare.net/netlogician/user-experience-ux-design-process
Skills:
Some of the skills a UX designer should have include:
- Making research plans
- Interviewing or moderating user sessions
- Analyzing user research
- Writing user stories for new features or products
- Prioritizing user needs
- Coming up with different models or concepts for a design
- Sketching ideas
- Building wireframes
- Creating user flows
- Building fully interactive prototypes
- Deciding when to send email to users
- Building taxonomies
- Creating understandable navigation for products or sites
- Laying out pages in an attractive manner
- Creating icons or images
- Actually building what has been designed
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