What is the best way to make a transition to UX Design?
First, let’s acknowledge what you have first.
If you have been a successful graphic designer, at least you should have the empathy to understand users.
Then, we can start to explore the answer to this question.
You can start by having the abilities to run user-based research. For primary research, you better to ever conduct an FGD (Focus Group Discussion) or In-Depth Interview about product usage.
Conducting this design-research, you must able to arrange and plan the serial questions in exploring the users’ problems, their objective, their behaviour or how they approach/use a digital app to solve their problems. Of course, you could expand the list even more.
For quantitative method, you should understand A/B Testing. So you can understand better which method/technique/approach that most users prefer the most. In a digital way, we could measure it easily with the help of other programmers.
What are the deliverables you should build as UX Designer?
- You should able to map the users’ journey (even more their emotion). One of them is their state/status while using the app; from they found the problem up to the answer already solve the respective problem)
- You should able to build a wireframe for a mobile app or browser-based app (in size of desktop or mobile)
- If you also act as the UI Designer, then you should able to detail those wireframe into the more concrete visual things (button, image, background, character, box, etc).
What digital application should you use?
- Adobe In Design
- Corel Draw,
- Photoshop,
- Moqups, etc.
To answer the main question of “best transition way to be a UI/UX Designer” is by creating a portfolio. Then, how could you make it?
- Find a project related to UI/UX Design. Solve your client problems with your deliverables. As mentioned above. Don’t think about money first. Even more, you could sell you deliverables for free at the beginning. Or,
- Just make your own case/problem, and solve it by designing a deliverable. Put them into a portfolio. As I know, the digital portfolio could be placed on Top Creative Work On Behance or Discover the World’s Top Designers & Creative Professionals
