UI UX Designer job roles defined by job posting

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“Define interaction models, user task flows, and UI specifications. Communicate scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs to stakeholders. Work with our creative director and visual designers to incorporate the visual identity of Twitter into features. Develop and maintain design wireframes, mockups, and specifications as needed." UX Designer concerned with how the product feels Deliverables Wireframes of screens, storyboards, sitemap Tools Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Fireworks, InVision Heard in the wild "We should show users the 'Thank You' page once they have finished signing up." - Experience Designer job description at Twitter @yorkerhodes

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Designers, ux, ui, visual, information architect, what are they all. With varying titles it is tough to discern what someone is doing at a particular company. Here is a visual depiction using job postings

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“Define interaction models, user task flows, and UI specifications. Communicate scenarios, end-to-end experiences, interaction models, and screen designs to stakeholders. Work with our creative director and visual designers to incorporate the visual identity of Twitter into features. Develop and maintain design wireframes, mockups, and specifications as needed."

UX Designer concerned with how the product feels

Deliverables Wireframes of screens, storyboards, sitemap

Tools Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Fireworks, InVision

Heard in the wild "We should show users the 'Thank You'

page once they have finished signing up."

-Experience Designer job description at Twitter @yorkerhodes

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"Concept and implement the visual language of Airbnb.com. Create and advance site-wide style guides."

-UI Designer job description at Airbnb

UI DesignerDeliverables Comps, storyboards, sitemap

Tools Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator, Fireworks

Heard in the wild "The login and sign up links should be moved

to the top right corner."

concerned with how the product is laid out

@yorkerhodes

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"Produce high-quality visual designs--from concept to execution, including those for desktop, web, and mobile devices at a variety of resolutions (icons, graphics, and marketing materials). Create and iterate on assets that reflect a brand, enforce a language, and inject beauty and life into a product."

Visual DesignerDeliverables Comps, icons

Tools Photoshop, Sketch, Illustrator

Heard in the wild "The kerning is off and the button should be 1

pixel to the left!"

concerned with pixels, icons, visual elements, typography

-Visual Designer job description at Google@yorkerhodes

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"Proficiency in graphic design, motion graphics, digital art, a sensitivity to typography and color, a general awareness of materials/textures, and a practical grasp of animation. Knowledge of iOS, OS X, Photoshop and Illustrator as well as familiarity with Director (or equivalent), Quartz Composer (or equivalent), 3D computer modeling, motion graphics are required."

Interaction DesignerDeliverables Wireframes of interaction flows, storyboards

Tools AfterEffects, Core Composer, Flash, Origami

Heard in the wild "The menu should ease-in from the left in

800ms."

concerned with animation andwhat the interface does after a user touches it

-Interaction Designer job description at Apple

@yorkerhodes

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"Work closely with product teams to identify research topics. Design studies that address both user behavior and attitudes. Conduct research using a wide variety of qualitative methods and a subset of quantitative methods, such as surveys."

UX ResearcherDeliverables User personas, A/B test results, Investigative user

studies & interviews

Tools Mic, Paper, Docs

Heard in the wild "From our research, a typical user..."

concerned with user’s needs

-UX Researcher job description at Facebook @yorkerhodes

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“You'll architect and implement consumer-facing features and frameworks using advanced Javascript, AJAX, HTML, and CSS.”

UI DeveloperDeliverables Working interactive experience

Tools CSS, HTML, JavaScript

Heard in the wild "I'm using a 960px 12-column grid system."

concerned with creating a functional implementation of a product's interface

-UI Developer job description at Box @yorkerhodes

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"Own all facets of design: interaction, visual, product, prototyping. Create pixel-perfect mocks and code for new features across web and mobile."

Product DesignerDeliverables identify the problem, sets benchmarks to address

it, then designs, tests, and iterates on different solutions

Tools Varies

Heard in the wild "I own overall responsibility for realizing the

original vision of the product through design and coding"

concerned with the look and feel of a product

-Product Designer job description at Pinterest@yorkerhodes