What is a User Experience Designer?
We partnered with the Embrace UX Conference, in Hamilton, to find out how UX designers are doing things today, in order to foresee trends and plan for the future in User Experience Design.
The key takeaway… it is as difficult to complete the sentence “A User Experience professional is…” as it is to find and catch a UX Unicorn.
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What they’re called.
- 23.7% UX Designer
- 11.9% Web Designer
- 8.5% Interaction Designer
- 6.8% UX/UI Developer
- 6.1% Other
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Where they live.
- 78% Greater Toronto Area
- 15.3% Ontario, Outside GTA
- 5.1% Other
- 1.7% Canada, Outside Ontario
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Their process.
- 37.3% Paper sketch > wireframe > visual > code
- 28.8% Wireframe > interactive prototype > visual > code
- 23.7% Wireframe > visual > code
- 10.2% Other
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When they work.
- 20.3% When everyone is in bed
- 37.3% Morning Person
- 42.4% Between 11am and 6pm
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How they create user personas.
- 29.6% Stakeholder interviews
- 28.7% Analytics research
- 8.7% Website surveys
- 27% User interviews & monitoring
- 6.1% Other
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How they user test.
- 29.9% Moderated in-person testing
- 11.3% Online tools
- 15.5% Dont do it
- 19.6% Surveys
- 21.6% A/B testing
- 2.1% Other
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Their preferred wireframing tool.
- 20.3% Sketch App
- 37.3% Adobe programs
- 8.5% Axure
- 1.7% OmniGraffle
- 6.8% Balsamiq
- 5.1% UX Pin
- 20.3% Other
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