It’s nice to see the mention of Wirify. Seeing a finished website as a wireframe provides a great understanding of an existing site for embarking on design improvements or redesigns.
I was pleased that this article differentiates between information architects and interaction designers, but it unfortunately treats UX designers and graphic designers as the same role. These are two different fields.
A graphic designer ought to be evaluated according to their visual design style and the way they communicate through design, whereas a UX practitioner should be evaluated for how well they solve research and/or design problems. While some graphic designers do cross over into visual design or UX, UX designers can also enter that field from development (as I did), psychology, marketing, and more. There’s a reason why there’s a joke in our field that most of us can’t draw much more than a stick figure.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 10.4 ms ] threadI was pleased that this article differentiates between information architects and interaction designers, but it unfortunately treats UX designers and graphic designers as the same role. These are two different fields.
A graphic designer ought to be evaluated according to their visual design style and the way they communicate through design, whereas a UX practitioner should be evaluated for how well they solve research and/or design problems. While some graphic designers do cross over into visual design or UX, UX designers can also enter that field from development (as I did), psychology, marketing, and more. There’s a reason why there’s a joke in our field that most of us can’t draw much more than a stick figure.