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User Experience (UX) Designers for Your Next Project
While it might not be something you think about in your day to day life, so many things we use, see, and interact with have been largely influenced by UX design, from the feel of a mug to an online shopping experience.
In the digital space, the term UX design is much more commonly used, most often referring to the user-friendliness of a website, mobile application, or hardware.
What Is UX Design?
User experience design takes a customer-focused approach to making continued adjustments and optimizations to a website, web or mobile application, or hardware to provide the most enjoyable, intuitive result for the user.
What Does a UX Designer Do?
At the heart of a UX designer’s job is ensuring the customer has the best experience possible. While the end result of that design might not be tangible unto itself, hours of research, interviews, feedback analysis, wireframe and prototype development, and more goes into the behind-the-scenes work.
Some designers will focus on the user interface as well – a hybrid role commonly referred to as UI UX design. However, while these jobs do share quite a bit of overlap, they are two separate roles. If you’ll need a UX designer who can run point on both, be sure to inquire about their capabilities and experience up-front.
Product Design vs. UX Design
Just as UI and UX design share many similarities, so do UX and product design. In fact, many people consider these nearly the same role, executed at different stages in the design process. Whereas a user experience designer is in the weeds of a project from its inception through its release, product designers often “pick up” where a UX designer steps out, working to resolve any post-launch concerns, and ensuring the product continues to meet the needs outlined.