As others have said, you have incorrectly described what UX is. You should have used the term IxD (Interaction Design) or IA (Information Architechure). UX designers employ an iterative, user centered design process to:
- Weed out user needs (explicit and unspoken) by using various research tools
- Translate research findings into actionable insights/assumptioins
- Test to those assumptions quickly
- Convert those insights into product/functional requirements
UX designers play a much more strategic role in product development than what you describe. UX designers are not doing their job if they cannot answer 3 basic questions for any given project they are working on:
- Who is/are the target user(s).
- What task are they trying to accomplish?
- In what context are they trying to accomplish said tasks?
It is entirely possible that after answering these 3 questions, the outcome is that the product is not a digital, screen based experience, but rather a service with P2P interactions or even an API that links two disparate systems with no user facing UI.
I have a hard time actually calling someone a UX designer if they have ever only designed experiences for the web, mobile or some other digital medium.
