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What is a User Experience Designer?
Career DayGrade 1
Carderock Springs ES
John Whalen, PhDBrilliant Experience
Hi,I’m Josie Whalen’s
Dad!
Josie...?
Josie?!!
Josie?!!
That’s better Josie...
I’m just another:
I’m just another:- Left Handed
I’m just another:- Left Handed- Canadian
I’m just another:- Left Handed- Canadian- User ExperienceDesigner
User What??!!!
User ExperienceDesigner
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Detective
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Detective
+ Part Creative
User ExperienceDesigner
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Part Engineer
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Detective
We observe peopleas they work or
play...
Part Detective
We observe peopleas they work or
play...
Part Detective
...and discover what people really
want to do...
Sometimes we are on site where people work...
Part Detective
...and sometimes we’re in a usability
testing lab...
Part Detective
...we use this to record where
people are looking
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Creative
We think of creative ways to
solve problems...
Part Creative
We do that by organizing all our
thoughts...
Part Creative
...using our creative tools...
Part Creative
...and sketching our ideas to
make a “Prototype.”
Part Creative
Major RedesignThis diagram illustrates our gradual learning as we
completed a discovery and
redesign process.
This product is now used to search for academic papers by
more than 85% of Tier I research
universities worldwide.
We do a lot of early
“Prototypes”...
Part Creative
...as we make mistakes
we learn...
...and create better products and better games!
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Engineer
Part Engineer
...we figure out how a website or
app will be put together...
...and make “Wireframes” of what the site will
be like...
Part Engineer
Developer Designer
Usability
User Experience
Part Engineer...we bring together a team of experts...
Part Engineer...that can bring our ideas to life
with code...
Part Engineer...and make it all look exciting...
...so we go from this...
HIGHSCORESCORE
00
Pause Supplies
Performance
...to this...
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Detective
+ +Part Creative
Part Engineer
User ExperienceDesigner
Visual Designers
PsychologistsComputerScientists
Writers
People I’ve helped
Where my clients are
located
You better finish talking soon!
Thank you!
User ExperienceDesigner
Part Detective
+ +Part Creative
Part Engineer