The Full UX Design Process Guide: Workflow, Methodology, Software
User experience (UX) design is the process design teams use to create products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users. This involves the design of the entire process of acquiring and integrating the product, including aspects of branding, design, usability, and function.
“User Experience Design” is often used interchangeably with terms such as “User Interface Design” and “Usability”. However, while usability and user interface (UI) design are important aspects of UX design, they are subsets of it — UX design covers a vast array of other areas, too. A UX designer is concerned with the entire process of acquiring and integrating a product, including aspects of branding, design, usability, and function. It is a story that begins before the device is even in the user’s hands.
A UX design process typically follows something similar to a design thinking approach, which consists of five basic phases:
- Empathize with the users (learning about the audience);
- Define the problem (identifying the users’ needs);
- Ideate (generating ideas for design);
- Prototype (turning ideas into concrete examples);
- Test (evaluating the design).
UX Designer’s Role Within The Team
The UX designer’s role within the team is to steer the team through the process:
- Research;
- Design;
- Testing;
- Implementation.
They start with the research, then trying things out with wireframes and prototypes, and testing everything as they go along. UX Designer is the creator, the advocate, the moderator, and the cheerleader of the team at the same time.
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