UX DESIGNER

What does a UX Designer do?

• Designs and improves the user experience
• Audits existing applications and/or websites
• Performs market watch to analyze trends
• Meets users and conducts field studies (interviews, observation, brainstorming, idea sorting, user tests, etc.)
• Collects and analyzes user needs
• Proposes structural, graphic and editorial recommendations to facilitate the user experience (relevance of categorization, coherent tree structure, navigation markers, graphic environment, etc.).

What is his/her main know-how?

• Mastery of various UX research tools and methods to identify user needs: quantitative methods (questionnaire) and qualitative methods (field survey, user test, focus group, etc.)
• Mastery of standard protocols to conduct UX workshops in the field
• Mastery of the fundamentals of interface ergonomics

What are his/her main soft skills?

• Curiosity
  To be effective, the UX Designer must be on the lookout for societal transformation brought about by technological innovation, both in terms of practices and uses.
• Creativity
  He/she must be creative in the development of experiential workshops
• Empathy
  The UX Designer must possess genuine listening skills during exchanges with users in order to better discern the experiential feelings of users.
• Discipline
  He/She must have abilities to analyze and summarize data in order to translate feedback from verbatim reports into user needs and to provide recommendations to the design teams
• Relational skills
  In order to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, the UX Designer is an excellent communicator with team spirit.

Working environment

The UX Designer can work in a UX agency, a startup or a large company, or he/she can work as a freelancer. He/She is required to travel to conduct field studies. He/she reports on his/her results to the design teams.

Career prospects

Remuneration between 30 000 € and 35 000 € at the beginning of the career

The UX Designer can specialize in other areas of expertise:

• UX Researcher (in-depth research of users’ needs and motivations in the user context)
• Data Architect (structural organization of data on an interface)
• Digital project manager (coordination of a team composed of developers, graphic designers, webmasters, editors to complete a digital project).

What training to become a marketing and communications manager?

EFREI proposes in partnership with our school: the international master communication & technology. This course targets all future students who are strongly interested in communication and technology. This program provides you with a dual qualification.