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- ESKEMA0
It's all for money. The only clients that are billed specifically for UX are big major brands. They need to spend it some way, so they pay a lot to some company. That company justifies the hefty large sum of money charged with lots of departments working on the account. But unless you're running the company that large sum of money is not for you.
- soundsinsilence0
I worked with a large software development firm recently and they had 2 "UX Designers" for their entire development team of probably 30 software engineers.
I interviewed with the UX Designer on staff at the time and I was asking about her experience and what she likes these days. She said "oh Material Design is the best!" I replied that I had read about it and it had some cool styles and interactions and I thought Google did a good job with it. She replied "oh you should really learn it and use it. I use it for everything."
At one point the team I was working with said "maybe we should use a Material Design approach" and I replied loudly that if the whole internet ends up looking like Google I'm going to shoot myself.
To sum up my two cents: UX Designers can get away with not really paying attention to design because there are more and more prebuilt systems for them.
- Also Sketch looks like a design app that was cobbled together by Engineers/Developers who were trying to skip the Designers in their process.soundsinsilence
- this has nothing to do with UXsted
- the whole concept of Sketch and Axure is that to prepare the layouts FOR the designers so that they know where to put what, and what action or screen followssted
- a specific interaction.sted
- A designer should well know where to put things, he doesn't need another department for that.ESKEMA
- +1monNom
- Material design may look a certain way, but it also has some fundamental interaction patterns you'd be daft to avoid if working on android mobilecannonball1978
- fruitsalad-5
A user experience:
Pull out computer's power cable from wall sock.
Result:
PC turns off. No more need for UX.
Everyone... including the planet.. wi
- whatthefunk0
I've seen this argument time and again and the usual distinction in my experience is the difference between designers on marketing teams and designers on product teams in enterprise organizations. I am not suggesting that anyone is better than anyone else though I've found those on marketing teams are far stronger with branding, style guides, and creative direction while product team designers are stronger with flows, wires, use cases, and personas. I've found marketing designers do far better identity work, campaigns, micro sites, landing pages, and art direction while UX designers are better with building out flows, annotating all wires/designs, and interfacing with front/back end engineers.
Marketing:
Creative Director > Sr. Art Director > Art Director > Sr. Designer > Jr. Designer - collaborate with copywriters, photography, social media, and email marketing.Product:
Director of UX > Lead UX > Sr. UX Designer > UX Designer > Visual Designer - collaborate with product managers, analytics, ad ops, and video.What I do find interesting is that many people on the product side came up through the marketing side while seldom do I come across marketing designers who transitioned out of product teams. It often seems as though marketing designers want to transition to product and not the other way around.
Just my two pennies...
- Bullitt0
Remember Accessibility being the keyword about 10 years ago, it's still important of course but it was part of what we did. Now a big part of UX, removed from what I believe is and should be expected from any designer, do you think of these things now while you are coming up with your concepts? or does a UX person guide the way, providing you with direction with wireframes and prototypes, research.
- wheelBoy-1
I agree with what mg33 has said about UX, spot on mate.
- monoboy1
- no specific goal or use for that app, but it must have the ability to do EVERYTHING. GOdoesnotexist