What Do UI/UX Designers Do?

 

What Do UI/UX Designers Do?

If you want to become a greate UI designer, you should develop the following skills/responsibilities:

• Working in agile teams.
• Creating user flows, wireframes, prototypes and so on.
• Visualization tools such as InVision, Sketch, Photoshop, Figma, etc. For more details about which tool to choose, check out our research in this article: InVision vs Sketch vs Figma vs Photoshop
• Frontend programming languages such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
• Executing visual design stages from inception to final hand-off.
• Collaborating with UX designers, developers, QA, and product managers to design and implement innovative visual ideas for products.
• Communicating the branding and style of the company to users through design.
• Creating the look and feel of the product using customer analysis and research.
• Managing the responsiveness, interactivity, and animation of a product and making it adaptive to all device screen sizes.

If you want to become a great UX designer, you should develop these skills/responsibilities:

• Working in agile teams.
• A strong understanding of the UX process.
• Prototyping tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, InVision, Axure, etc.
• Problem solving skills and curiosity about everything related to design, people, life and technology.
• Stakeholder management and client interaction.
• Creating process flows, wireframes, sitemaps, prototypes, and UX deliverables.
• Collaborating closely with developers, product managers, UI designers, external stakeholders, and QA Engineers to iterate designs based on market dynamics, user feedback, and tech constraints.
• Analyzing customer needs, competitors, product structure, and strategies for designing the experience of a product.
• Creating seamless design and interaction strategies for mobile, web, desktop, and other hardware endpoints.

How Do UI/UX Designers Work Together?

While UI design and UX design require very different skill sets, they are both important components that must work in harmony to give the best experience to end users.

A UI design might be beautiful, but it can be clunky and confusing to navigate without a good UX design. On the other hand, the user experience of a product can be flawless, but it is nothing without a good looking user interface.

Any frontend development and design process should start with understanding the needs of the user. UX and UI designers should work in collaboration with other developers, managers, and product owners to understand what the end product should be able to do, how it should feel, and what it should look like.

UX designers are generally involved in the earlier phases of a product design since they need to design the flow of activities that take place when a user needs to solve a problem. This involves analytic and project management activities.

Later, a UI designer builds on the aesthetics and interactions based on the models provided by the UX designer.

Given this, it is safe to state that UX and UI go hand in hand. And while there are instances when the same person does both, one design principle cannot exist without the other.