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What qualities do you look for in a UX designer?
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Some basic qualities:
-Willingness to explore multiple options
-People person, able to empathize
-Curious/Multiple interests
-Good at telling stories
-Able to work across disciplines/collaborative
Since UX/XD is spans across multiple channels and skillsets, I always look for the individual's ability to identify engagement opportunities or touch points in all of them. Having a strong or natural intuition toward human behavior enables the practitioner to not only identify the need, but understand the emotional “Why” behind it. These two requirements are critical to the “Experience”.. Then tactically roots in psychology, marketing, design, planning and advertising round up some other essential requirements.
On the tactical level, the ability to create meaningful documentation is a requirement. I am not looking for the ability to make attractive documents as much as the methodology that enables them to collect information that produce such documents.
Lead a team in brining a story to life. Comfortable in strategy, research and design.
Team Player, diplomatic and objective
Michael Plishka's list is great. Reading between the lines of his checklist, I'd pull out another characteristic to stand on it's own: the ability to connect dots, to see symbiosis and opportunity among seemingly disparate parts and pieces. Being curious and willing to explore go hand-in-hand with that quality.
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