heretoreaditall2019
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Can someone explain to me what UX actually is in real layman’s tangible way?
Also is he claiming to have Parkinson’s?
User experience, so using e-commerce (a website where you can shop online) as an example an example project they might do is… how to make the checkout process better for the user. So they’ll do some research, may ask some user questions, or watch recorded web sessions (commissioned research or just live real customers who’ve been tracked), and look at data to understand pain points (eg if everyone drops out on page 2/3 cos the form is too long or makes someone sign up for an account). They then redesign the page in line with best practice / tbh ideas from competitors oftentimes, and a dev team will implement it. They do very light qual research and an actual data analyst will do the quant stuff looking at hit level (so page view, click, events) data for them. I’m not being bitchy but it’s one of the more accessible jobs in tech and the salaries reflect that. I’d be surprised to see someone with an analyst or dev skillset choosing to earn a third of what they potentially could be doing UX…? Also from friends in UX it’s not necessarily a linear career where you can keep going up and charging more based on experience, if you want the next step up salary wise you have to side step into something different.