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Disclaimer: the content of this post is collected from Google UX Design course
If you are thinking about changing your career path to being a UX designer or just wanted to explore different roles within the field of user experience, this reading will help you get more information about that.
Interaction designer
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An interaction designer will design the experience of a product and how it functions. Something that you might be familiar is user flow, how a typical user interact with the app or website to complete a task. Now, I am sure you can see interaction design appears everywhere from authentication process, element organization, e-commerce checkout flow.
Visual designer
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Visual designer are focusing on how a final product looks. Their job is design logos, illustrations, as well as deciding font color, size
Motion designer
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A motion designer is focusing on creating animations or visual effects to create smooth transitions between pages, states of an element.
VR/AR designer
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Virtual Reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) designers create products that provide users with immersive experiences, unbounded by the limits of the physical world.
UX researcher
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UX researchers are focusing on conducting studies or interviews to examine how people use a product. A research can be happened at prototype stage of the design process to get early feedback from users on a product. As a researcher, you also identify user's pain points, problems that users are experiencing, then explore possible solutions which can help solve those problems.
UX writer
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UX writer think about how to make the language within a product clearer so that the user experience is more intuitive. They also help define a brand's voice and personality.
Bonus: You can check out more helpful contents from Shopify Polaris design system.
UX program manager
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A UX program manager ensure clear and timely communication, so the process of building a useful product moves smoothly from start to finish. They are responsible for setting goals, writing project plans, and allocating team resources.
UX engineer (Front-end engineer/developer)
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You can call a UX engineer as Front End Developer. As a UX engineer, you might gather output from visual designers, interaction designer, or motion designer, then translate the design into an application or a website.
Conversation designer
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Design conversation for intelligent virtual assistant, interactive voice response system to make it possible for users to have natural conversations to get things done.
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