Roles and Responsibilities of UI/UX Developer
1. User research and preparing for it
User research is the key responsibility of a UX designer. a UX designer has to prepare for the research, write the interview guidelines and scripts, and create documents that outline how research should be conducted step by step. A UX designer also then has to conduct the research therefore, interviewing people in-person or remotely is also the task of a UX designer.
2. Research analysis and presentation
It is the responsibility of a UI/UX designer to then take detailed notes of the research. there’s a lot of information that will be gathered so the role of UI/UX developers is to analyze the information, understand the trend, and organize data using tools to identify trends and patterns in that data. The role of the UI/UX designer is to create reports and presentations to present that complex information to other people in the team.
3. Collaborating with the stakeholders and analyzing the customer
The role of a UI/UX developer is primarily a people-focused role. Therefore, UI/UX developers work with lots of other teams – business stakeholders, developers and visual designers for conducting research, running workshops, analyzing data, running tests and experiments and doing a lot of communication with presentations and creating diagrams. A UI/UX developer also acts like a connection between the users or the customers and the business
4. Conducting workshops
In most of the companies, workshops are a responsibility for a UX designer where people from different areas of the business to come together and generate ideas and decide where the focus should be.
5. Creating wireframes and prototypes with tools like Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, etc.
Creating wireframe and prototypes is the sole responsibility of a UI/UX designer. Wireframes are detailed structural sketches that illustrate a concept. A wireframe for a digital product is similar to a blueprint for a house. Wireframe clearly illustrates how the product functions and the core elements of its design.
6. Develop creative and innovative design solutions
A UI/UX designer is expected to develop creative and innovative design solutions, to design the screens of the User Interface and create different visual touch points and establish the interactivity with them.
7. Constantly measure how designs are performing
Role of A UI/UX designer is not just over after the design of the application is ready. they have to constantly measure how designs are performing for target customers. And Iterate and improve those experiences as needed.
8. Staying updated with the latest design trends and new tools for UI/UX Design.
As a UI/UX designer, you are expected to know what’s happening in the field, what are the latest design trends and new tools in the market. This is an informal responsibility, no company would ask you to do this, rather this depends more on your passion for UI/UX design.
Roles and Responsibilities of UI/UX Developer
In this article, we will discuss various roles and responsibilities of UI/UX developers to help you understand how a UI/UX developer works in a team and what roles and responsibilities are held by a UI/UX developer.