inside out: understanding ui and ux designers’ mind

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CORE DISCIPLINES SKILLS MINDSETS FOUNDATIONS HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN VISUAL DESIGN FRONT END (HTML, CSS, JS) CONTRAST AND PROXIMITY PRIORITIZING FEATURES REALISTIC CONTENT APPEALING ICONS COLOR PSYCHOLOGY APPROPRIATE TYPOGRAPHY SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND EMOTIONS VISUAL APPEAL USEFUL PRODUCTS EASY TO USE CUSTOMER ATTRACTION TARGET AUDIENCE WELL-DEFINED PURPOSE GRASP USER ENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUES COGNITIVE SOCIAL PERCEPTUAL UNCONSCIOUS MIND COTTON ON PSYCHOLOGY COMPREHEND USER NEEDS AND WANTS PURSUE INTERACTIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES CATCH ON TO CURRENT DESIGN TRENDS DEVELOP ITERATIVE DESIGN METHODS FOLLOW THE RULES OF PRACTICALITY AND USABILITY EMPATHIZES WITH THE TARGET AUDIENCE DESIGN WITH ITERATION QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR PROBLEMS QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH FOR BEHAVIORS BE KEEN ON CONCEPTUAL MODELLING JAVA, .NET, AJAX, PHP, XHTML HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT FAMILIARITY WITH CMS & DBMS SOCIAL NETWORKING APIs RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE INTERACTION DESIGN COMPUTER SCIENCE COGNITIVE SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY SOCIOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY COLOR THEORY AND TYPOGRAPHY INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE REAL-WORLD INTELLIGENCE USABILITY TESTING COLLABORATION WITH IT DECISION MAKERS VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION USE OF VISUAL AIDS TEAM LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT UP-TO-DATE WITH HCI PRACTICES “Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior” - Naoto Fukasawa “Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form” - David Lewis “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it is decoration” - Jeffrey Zeldman “It’s art if it can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation” - Wouter Stokkel /logodesignguru +logodesigngurucorp @logodesignguru /company/logodesignguru Understanding UX/UI Designers’ Mind UI/UX Design – An Ever-Growing, Perpetually Evolving Craft UX Designer UI Designer Inside Out ideally depicts the conflict between different personality islandswithin a persons mind. Such a tangle of ideas and thinking styles is the purgatory through which UI/UX designers must go through every day to hone and practice their skills. SOURCES http://blog.uxpin.com/1400/how-to-recognize-great-ux-designer/ http://uxmastery.com/how-to-get-started-in-ux-design/ https://medium.com/@ireneau/understanding-ux-skills-21ad9c22f0bf http://www.itcareerfinder.com/it-careers/user-interface-developer.html http://blog.careerfoundry.com/user-experience-user-interface-design/ UX Designer UI Designer COMMON

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Page 1: Inside Out: Understanding UI and UX Designers’ Mind

CORE DISCIPLINES

SKILLS

MINDSETS

FOUNDATIONS

HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION

HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING

INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

VISUAL DESIGN

FRONT END (HTML, CSS, JS)

CONTRAST AND PROXIMITY

PRIORITIZING FEATURES

REALISTIC CONTENT

APPEALING ICONS

COLOR PSYCHOLOGY

APPROPRIATE TYPOGRAPHY

SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND

EMOTIONS

VISUAL APPEAL

USEFUL PRODUCTS

EASY TO USE

CUSTOMER ATTRACTION

TARGET AUDIENCE

WELL-DEFINED PURPOSE

GRASP USER ENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUESCOGNITIVE

SOCIAL

PERCEPTUALUNCONSCIOUS MIND

COTTON ON PSYCHOLOGY

COMPREHEND USER NEEDS AND WANTS

PURSUE INTERACTIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES

CATCH ON TO CURRENT DESIGN TRENDS

DEVELOP ITERATIVE DESIGN METHODS

FOLLOW THE RULES OF PRACTICALITY AND USABILITY

EMPATHIZES WITH THE TARGET AUDIENCE

DESIGN WITH ITERATION

QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR PROBLEMS

QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH FOR BEHAVIORS

BE KEEN ON CONCEPTUAL MODELLING

JAVA, .NET, AJAX, PHP, XHTML

HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT

FAMILIARITY WITH CMS & DBMS

SOCIAL NETWORKING APIs

RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

INTERACTION DESIGN

COMPUTER SCIENCE

COGNITIVE SCIENCE

PSYCHOLOGY

SOCIOLOGY

ANTHROPOLOGY

COLOR THEORY AND TYPOGRAPHY

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE

REAL-WORLD INTELLIGENCE

USABILITY TESTING

COLLABORATION WITH IT DECISION MAKERS

VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

USE OF VISUAL AIDS

TEAM LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

UP-TO-DATE WITH HCI PRACTICES

“Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior” - Naoto Fukasawa“Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality

into a simple, uncluttered form” - David Lewis

“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it is decoration” - Jeffrey Zeldman

“It’s art if it can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one asks for anexplanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation” - Wouter Stokkel

/logodesignguru +logodesigngurucorp@logodesignguru/company/logodesignguru

UnderstandingUX/UI Designers’ Mind

UI/UX Design – An Ever-Growing, Perpetually Evolving Craft

UX Designer UI Designer

Inside Out ideally depicts the conflict between different ‘personality islands’ within a person’s mind. Such a tangle of ideas and thinking styles is the purgatory through which UI/UX designers must go through every day to hone and practice their skills.

SOURCES

http://blog.uxpin.com/1400/how-to-recognize-great-ux-designer/

http://uxmastery.com/how-to-get-started-in-ux-design/

https://medium.com/@ireneau/understanding-ux-skills-21ad9c22f0bf

http://www.itcareerfinder.com/it-careers/user-interface-developer.html

http://blog.careerfoundry.com/user-experience-user-interface-design/

UX Designer

UI Designer

COMMON