Top 10 Skills and Knowledge Set Every User Experience (UX) Professional Needs
So here’s my list:
- Psychology – including cognitive, social, perceptual, and the new work on unconscious mental processing
- User Testing – basic user testing planning and conducting
- User Research – more than user testing, including interviews, task flow analysis, personas, scenarios, wants and needs
- Principles of Usability – how to make a product easy to learn and use
- Principles of Engagement — how to make a product engaging and persuasive
- Lean UX Design – lean start-up methods for doing UX
- Conceptual Modeling – making transparent all the macro decisions you make before you even start sketches pages and screens, such as information architecture, navigation design, object/action decisions
- Iterative Design – how to design collaboratively with others, including storyboards, sketches, wireframes, and prototypes
- Interaction Design – how to make the best decisions about micro-level interaction design
- Current Trends – knowing what the current trends are – Parallex scrolling? Flat design?