Skills

 

Individuals who work in UX wear many metaphorical hats. However, these are the skills Adrienne has worked hard to develop over a decade of being a professional UX designer.

 

Design and Consulting

Accessibility

  • Code HTML and CSS for web applications to meet international W3C standards

  • Design interfaces to meet the needs of people with disabilities, including older users

  • Write a business case to present to management on why accessibility is important

  • Advocate for accessibility by understanding real-life experiences of how accessibility is essential for some, and useful for all

  • Manage accessibility in projects and in organizations

  • Check web pages for basic accessibility issues and improving accessibility

 

UX Teams

Team Building

  • Demonstrate a need to hire more resources using facts and data

  • Determine what the organization needs for roles on the UX team

  • Write job descriptions and skill requirements

  • Review candidates for top choices to fill the role and conduct interviews

  • Write documentation for team charters, best practices, and team knowledge base

  • Develop team roadmap for sprint planning and work

  • Create quarterly growth goals specifically tailored for team members and their goals

 

UI Design

Prototyping

  • Establish a design system and build components to use across designs for consistency

  • Add brand guidelines like colors and fonts to the design system

  • Design accessible UIs in Adobe XD for 9 years

  • Implement animation and hover states to capture detail for development

  • Export HTML and CSS code for developers to utilize

 

UX Best Practices

Design Systems

  • Optimize designs to include branding and accessibility

  • Design and develop faster

  • Share visions and goals with designers and stakeholders

  • Consistency of design across projects and products

  • Design and share the design system document across the organization

 

UX REsearch

Usability Testing

  • Run moderated and unmoderated usability tests

  • Write moderated testing scripts

  • Build surveys, tree tests, card sorts, etc.

  • Review results and prioritize usability issues found

  • Present findings to stakeholders and developers

 

UX Design

Wireframing

  • Focus for what goes on a web page and where it goes

  • Leave out details for stakeholders to be able to visualize the foundation

  • Balsamiq Mockups used to wireframe for 9 years

 

 

Coaching

Mentoring

  • Build an internship program for seasonal design interns

  • Develop a plan for weekly themes to discuss with the interns

  • Give interns projects to produce real world design examples to include in their portfolio

  • Host informational interviews for colleagues that may be interested in learning more about UX

 

 

UX Design

Information Architecture

  • Use data like Google Analytics to determine the most clicked links

  • Host tests like card sorts and tree tests to allow users to group like things together

  • Conduct moderated/unmoderated usability tests to uncover usability errors