UI / UX Designer
What the work is
Designs, develops and optimises the user interface and user experience of apps, websites or products, using digital tools, user research and consultation, interactive and visual design, and usability function and testing.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Conducts user requirement analysis and creates user flows, journey maps, personas, scenarios and task analysis to inform design decisions
- Creates new designs, including wireframes, prototypes and visual designs, for app and web user interfaces
- Plans, estimates and executes discovery and design processes using customer-centred design principles and usability testing methods
- Tests and rapidly translates research findings into design solutions
- Conducts discovery activities and workshops to gain quantitative and qualitative insights to improve apps and websites
- Aligns business goals and customer needs into digital strategies and designs
- Ensures that designs adhere to relevant guidelines or standards for accessibility
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a small studio designing websites and apps for local businesses and community groups. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- You watch someone use your design for the first time and they never get stuck
- A messy form becomes a simple three step flow that people actually finish
- A client who started out sceptical shows your prototype to their whole team
Hard days
- A client falls in love with a design that tests badly with real users
- Feedback arrives from six people who all want different things
- You spend a week on something that turns out to need starting again
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 242132, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.