The world of UI/UX designers can often be weird, fantastically so, yet weird nonetheless. Turn it inside out, much like the new Pixar movie, and you’ll discover a breathtaking range of colors, with a very generous splash of chaos. It is possible to separate the two, and distinguish between them, so that you can view one spectrum representing a UI designer’s mind, while another exhibits what a UX designer’s thought process looks like. Of course, there is significant overlap as well, since the line dividing these two job descriptions is quite fuzzy to begin with. It doesn’t help, either, that both forms of craft are evolving near constantly, and growing every day to incorporate the latest ideas and technologies. To further compound the problem, there’s the fact that most UI/UX designers have rather complex personalities , prone to whims of fancy and flights to Neverland. It becomes nearly impossible then to be able to understand the inner workings of the mind of a UI/UX designer. Fortunately, Inside Out recently gave us a whole new perspective of how to think about the brain, our thoughts, and our emotions. So, using the very same concept, we have crafted an infographic for your perusal which should help you better understand exactly what goes on inside the heads of UI/UX designers.

1. CORE DISCIPLINES
SKILLS
MINDSETS
FOUNDATIONS
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
VISUAL DESIGN
FRONT END (HTML, CSS, JS)
CONTRAST AND PROXIMITY
PRIORITIZING FEATURES
REALISTIC CONTENT
APPEALING ICONS
COLOR PSYCHOLOGY
APPROPRIATE TYPOGRAPHY
SIMPLE TO UNDERSTAND
EMOTIONS
VISUAL APPEAL
USEFUL PRODUCTS
EASY TO USE
CUSTOMER ATTRACTION
TARGET AUDIENCE
WELL-DEFINED PURPOSE
GRASP USER ENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
COGNITIVE
SOCIAL
PERCEPTUAL
UNCONSCIOUS MIND
COTTON ON PSYCHOLOGY
COMPREHEND USER NEEDS AND WANTS
PURSUE INTERACTIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES
CATCH ON TO CURRENT DESIGN TRENDS
DEVELOP ITERATIVE DESIGN METHODS
FOLLOW THE RULES OF PRACTICALITY AND USABILITY
EMPATHIZES WITH THE TARGET AUDIENCE
DESIGN WITH ITERATION
QUALITATIVE RESEARCH FOR PROBLEMS
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH FOR BEHAVIORS
BE KEEN ON CONCEPTUAL MODELLING
JAVA, .NET, AJAX, PHP, XHTML
HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT
FAMILIARITY WITH CMS & DBMS
SOCIAL NETWORKING APIs
RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
INTERACTION DESIGN
COMPUTER SCIENCE
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
PSYCHOLOGY
SOCIOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY
COLOR THEORY AND TYPOGRAPHY
INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
REAL-WORLD INTELLIGENCE
USABILITY TESTING
COLLABORATION WITH IT DECISION MAKERS
VERBAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION
USE OF VISUAL AIDS
TEAM LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
UP-TO-DATE WITH HCI PRACTICES
“Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in
behavior” - Naoto Fukasawa“Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality
into a simple, uncluttered form” - David Lewis
“Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not
design, it is decoration” - Jeffrey Zeldman
“It’s art if it can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one asks for an
explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation” - Wouter Stokkel
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Understanding
UX/UI Designers’ Mind
UI/UX Design – An Ever-Growing, Perpetually
Evolving Craft
UX Designer UI Designer
Inside Out ideally depicts the conflict between different ‘personality islands’ within a
person’s mind. Such a tangle of ideas and thinking styles is the purgatory through
which UI/UX designers must go through every day to hone and practice their skills.
SOURCES
http://blog.uxpin.com/1400/how-to-recognize-great-ux-designer/
http://uxmastery.com/how-to-get-started-in-ux-design/
https://medium.com/@ireneau/understanding-ux-skills-21ad9c22f0bf
http://www.itcareerfinder.com/it-careers/user-interface-developer.html
http://blog.careerfoundry.com/user-experience-user-interface-design/
UX Designer
UI Designer
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