A Day in The Life — UX Designer

Tharani tharan Dharmalingam
YavarTechWorks
Published in
2 min readAug 19, 2022

What is something you wish you could do every day?
Different Thinking Right? That is UX 😁

(UX)

What is User Experience (UX) design?

UX designers are responsible for designing an app or a system with the users in mind. The goal is to design a solution that is easy to use, efficient, and — last but not least — attractive.

What are some of the key skills that you’d develop in this job?

Creativity
UX design gives you lots of opportunities to be creative and think out of the box to and new solutions

Listening
Listen closely to your users and researchers to ensure you’re solving the right problem

Communication
You will communicate a lot with your users and clients to ensure everybody is happy with the product

Prototyping & wireframing
Being able to create early drafts of the product. It’s worth trying out some free tools to gain some practice

Adaptability
New technologies could change the game, or projects could change direction after user feedback

What are the tools of the trade?

Wireframing tools
Design prototyping tools
Image editing software
Post-its and chart paper

Wireframing or sketching tools:
Can be digital or hand drawn. Pen and paper, Balsamiq Mockups, Sketch, Axure, Omnigraffle, Figma.

Design prototyping tools:
Invision, Axure, Marvelapp, Flinto, UXPin, Proto.io, Principle, Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch.

Image editing software:
Adobe Photoshop(photopea), Illustrator, Corel draw, Sketch, Pixlr.

One Tip for UX designers: https://storyset.com — Illustration — to get and animate illustration SVG file —Full free

Thank You 😀

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