Design For Beginners
When youre geting into UX design, the best place to start is with Design Thinking. It takes the UX designer process and breaks it into 5 steps.
You start by empathizing with users. This means that you need to see the world through a user's perspective. This is why UX designers work with User Personas since it lets you define a certain type of user who is the person your product is geared towards when you're approaching the product design. Really, empathy is the foundation of all design because it you cant understand the user then you can't understand how to make products for them.
The reason empathy is so important to UX
Design is because it helps you Define Problems that users are having. That's step 2 of the Design Thinking process is defining problems your User Persona is having. You can do this by studying their behavior, having discussions with potential users and seeing what struggles their having in your product designs or other competitor's designs.
Once you have the problems defined, you can start Ideating (step 3 of Design Thinking) which has vou come un with lots of different solutions.
to the problems the user is facing. This is why UX Designers need to go through the design thinking process is if you can empathize you can find problems. If you can find problems you can come up with solutions based on those problems, not just solutions to non-problems.
The last phase of design thinking is prototyping and testing. This is a huge part of the UX.
Designer role as you need to be able to plan out a user test, make a user flow that is ons understandable without speaking to the user and leave things to make it so you can find insights from the users.
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