Education & Career Trends: October 18
Curated by the Knowledge Team of ICS Career GPS
- Excerpts are taken from an article published on makeuseof.com.
After mastering UI/UX fundamentals, specialisation is the next step for most designers looking for a challenge. However, like choosing the right tech field, deciding on a specialisation area can leave many designers stumped.
Furthermore, advancing your career in the correct direction requires solid knowledge of many design fields. This way, you’re rightfully equipped to choose the best UI/UX career path that suits you.
As such, this article discusses some of the top UI/UX careers you can specialise in and what they entail.
1. Product Designer
- UI/UX design is often interchanged with product design, which may leave you pondering the differences between the two.
- Product designers design these strategies and oversee every stage of a product’s development, from initial ideation to branding and presentation.
- Of course, this includes its visual design and usability, but unlike UI/UX designers, a product designer ensures the product’s all-around success.
- Combining product design with fundamental UI/UX skills enables you to create exceptional products that meet customer, organisational, and market requirements.
- Besides your UI/UX skills, product design requires that you understand project management and market awareness to predict consumer response.
2. Interaction Designer
- Interaction designers improve the user experience of digital products, focusing on producing an immersive, highly interactive product.
- Working in this field involves using features like animation and haptics to fully engage the user while heightening the product’s feedback and functionality.
3. Information Architect
- Information architects check that a design’s message is clear and concise and eliminates overwhelming content or design elements.
- The average user has a short attention span; thus, information architects structure content to pass vital information across first, followed by less crucial ones.
- You’ll also decide the order in which information is displayed on a product and the layout of all visual elements to maximise user satisfaction.
- This skill, known as content hierarchy, is a must for every information architect.
4. Interface Designer
- These professionals, more popularly called user interface (UI) designers, plan and create the software’s appearance and visuals.
- As with fundamental UI/UX design, it involves using colour theory, typography, and other design elements to build aesthetically pleasing sites.
- As a professional interface designer, your job goes beyond designing layouts, as you’ll consider user preferences and usability.
- Moreover, you’re also in charge of ensuring seamlessness between the interaction’s designer and UX analyst’s inputs and your final design.
5. UX Writer
- While organizing these texts falls chiefly to the information architects, crafting them is the job of the UX writer.
- UX writers are responsible for all written content and product interface alerts.
- From headers, copies, and descriptions, UX writers carefully curate text to enhance communication and understanding without removing from the product’s aesthetic.
- Unlike other design specialisations, this role involves content and copywriting, so refining your writing skills is essential.
6. UX Strategist
- Specialising in UX strategy means user research is your chief role; you’re the middleman between the designer and the user.
- Here, you carefully analyse potential product users, highlighting their problems and proposing solutions using your product.
7. UX Analyst
- A beautiful interface and an engaging interaction design may be momentarily interesting, but the product’s usability earns the user’s loyalty.
- A product that proves difficult to use tends to frustrate users and eventually becomes obsolete.
- Preventing this from happening is a UX analyst’s job.
- Armed with the usability strategist’s points and notes, this professional ensures their execution and effectiveness to the user.
- Additionally, taking on this job role means you’ll primarily be responsible for requesting and implementing feedback.
8. Accessibility Strategist
- Software and digital products should also be accessible to disabled people, and certain provisions should allow them easy access.
- As an accessibility strategist, you guarantee an excellent user experience for people with disabilities.
- Similar to the UX analyst, accessibility strategists frequently request feedback and iterate the product but with a laser focus on suiting disabled people.
- More importantly, you must stay informed about current disability guidelines and laws and strictly adhere to them.
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