What is a user experience designer
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A user experience designer is part detective, observing how people use products; part creative, thinking of solutions and prototyping ideas; and part engineer, figuring out how to build digital products. They work on multidisciplinary teams including psychologists, designers, and developers to understand people's needs and create intuitive, enjoyable products and games.
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What is a user experience designer
- 1. What is a User Experience Designer? Career Day Grade 1 Carderock Springs ES John Whalen, PhD Brilliant Experience
- 2. Hi, I’m Josie Whalen’s Dad!
- 3. Josie...?
- 4. Josie?!!
- 5. Josie?!!
- 6. That’s better Josie...
- 8. I’m just another: - Left Handed
- 9. I’m just another: - Left Handed - Canadian
- 10. I’m just another: - Left Handed - Canadian - User Experience Designer
- 11. User What??!!!
- 12. User Experience Designer
- 13. User Experience Designer Part Detective
- 14. User Experience Designer Part Detective + Part Creative
- 15. User Experience Designer Part Detective + Part Creative + Part Engineer
- 16. User Experience Designer Part Detective
- 17. Part Detective We observe people as they work or play...
- 18. Part Detective We observe people ...and discover as they work or what people really play... want to do...
- 19. Part Detective Sometimes we are ...and sometimes on site where we’re in a usability people work... testing lab...
- 20. ...we use this to record where people are looking Part Detective
- 21. User Experience Designer Part Creative
- 22. We think of creative ways to solve problems... Part Creative
- 23. We do that by organizing all our thoughts... Part Creative
- 24. ...using our creative tools... Part Creative
- 25. ...and sketching our ideas to make a “Prototype.” Part Creative
- 26. We do a lot of early “Prototypes”... Major Redesign This diagram illustrates our gradual learning as we completed a discovery and ...as we make redesign process. mistakes This product is now used to search for academic papers by more than 85% of Tier I research we learn... universities worldwide. ...and create better products and better games! Part Creative
- 27. User Experience Designer Part Engineer
- 28. ...we figure out how a website or app will be put together... Part Engineer
- 29. ...and make “Wireframes” of what the site will be like... Part Engineer
- 30. User Experience Developer Designer Usability ...we bring together Part Engineer a team of experts...
- 31. ...that can bring Part Engineer our ideas to life with code...
- 32. ...and make it all Part Engineer look exciting...
- 33. Pause Suppli Perfor HIGHSCORE 0 es mance SCORE 0 ...so we go from this...
- 34. ...to this...
- 35. User Experience Designer Part Detective + Part Creative + Part Engineer
- 36. User Experience Designer Visual Writers Designers Psychologists Computer Scientists
- 37. People I’ve helped
- 38. Where my clients are located
- 39. You better finish talking soon!
- 40. Thank you!
- 41. User Experience Designer Part Detective + Part Creative + Part Engineer