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Designing an app or website’s UI or UX is no easy task. It requires serious talent if it must stand out among the millions out there. Yes, it is not just enough to rank on Google, you will also need to engage audiences once they reach your app or website. To make this happen you would need to hire a UI/UX designer.
What is a UI/UX Designer?
A UI/UX Designer is a person who designs both the user-facing components of an app or website and the user experience for anyone who comes on the app or website. A UI/UX designer must be able to bring both UI and UX needs under one umbrella, making the app accessible and more usable.
The user facing part (or interface) of the app or website must be delightful, useful, and intuitive. This is where UI and UX designers are called in to make this possible. So essentially, a UI/UX designer is a role capable of handling both UI and UX. Before we go ahead with how to hire a UI/UX designer, let’s understand the difference between a UI and a UX designer.
What is the Difference Between a UI and UX Designer?
The main difference between a UI and a UX designer comes down to what they do. A UI designer handles the elements of visual design for the app or website, whereas the UX designer is into refining the user experience to make sure that the app is easy to use and intuitive for the end user. Let us look at both these roles in more detail now, to analyze the differences between them.
UI Designer
A UI Designer designs visual elements. This includes typefaces, user-facing images and possibly even animations, as most sites these days have some sort of animation. To get approval for their designs, UI designers create prototypes and mockups to test their design. By continuously getting feedback from other stakeholders, the UI designer refines the visual design.
UX Designer
A UX designer is responsible for designing the user experience on the website and includes how the user interacts with the app or the website. UX designers conduct research on their target audience, and then design user personas, and create journey maps and wireframes to help with the UX design process. Here besides the process of feedback that happens later, the UX design is modified with feedback from the customer about what works.
Benefits of Hiring a UI/UX Designer
1. Enhanced User-Experience
The user experience will be taken up a notch by a UX designer who understands UI as well. As both need to be tightly integrated, if you find a person who can do both, it will be great.
2. Improved Usability
The product or app will be easier to use, and this will lead to more positive reviews, and increase over time the number of users buying the product.
3. Competitive Advantage
You get a competitive advantage when you hire a UI/UX designer for the final product or app, which places you ahead of the rest of the people on the market.
4. Brand Consistency
The brand must maintain a consistent tone of voice and messaging across platforms, and with the help of a good UI/UX designer you can achieve this.
5. Faster Time to Market
The process of getting a product as fast as possible to the market, to generate higher market share and greater revenue by optimizing workflows as required and integrating data and using cross-platform solutions.
6. Increased Customer Engagement
As a result of the great visual elements and the enhanced user experience, customer engagement is taken up a notch. The customers find value in the app or product and will recommend it to others as well.
How to Hire a UI/UX Designer?
Only after learning the qualities of a UI UX designer can you commence with your search. Adhering to the following steps will help you search and hire the best UI/UX designers:
- The first thing you need to do is analyze your company’s current needs in UI/UX. You must look at the skills and the experience level required. Based on this, you can create a rough draft for a job posting.
- The next thing you need to do is to convert this into an appealing job description. You must ensure that all the information necessary to hire the right candidate is there. This includes skills required, years of experience, other behavioral attributes considered favorable and so on.
- Third, you must decide on the channels that you will post the job description on. Are you adopting a fully online strategy or will you go offline as well, and have you gone for a third-party recruitment agency who might have a more robust talent pipeline of passive candidates?
- Fourth, shortlist candidates based on the responses received. Have the job description on hand and use the ATS to make a profile match if required. Once you have shortlisted a few, depending on how many positions you want to fill, move to the next step.
- In this step, you will conduct a test of their abilities, be it verbal, reasoning, aptitude etc. You will conduct one or more tests to ensure only the best candidates make it to the technical and HR interview rounds.
- In the sixth step, you will be conducting an interview to ensure that they have been honest when taking the test and that whatever background information they have submitted checks out. Background verification also happens generally before the face-to-face interviews.
- After conducting the interview, you move to the final step, that of welcoming the candidates into the company. If you think they will be a good fit both technically, culturally and as good human beings, welcome them aboard.
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FAQs
1. What is a UI/UX Designer?
A UI/UX designer creates user-centric user interfaces for apps or websites that look very appealing and have highly improved navigation and ease of use. Generally, these roles are separate, as there is always a UI designer and a UX designer, but at times a single individual may take care of both, as a UI/UX designer.
2. What skills should I look for in a UI/UX designer?
In a UI/UX designer, you must look for skills that you would expect from a UI designer, such as ease of working with colors, graphics, typefaces etc. to improve the visual aesthetics and that you would expect from a UX designer, in being able to define the user experience, user personas, customer journeys etc.
3. What are the common mistakes when hiring a UI/UX designer?
The common mistakes when hiring a UI/UX designer are hiring a person who doesn’t know UI or UX to your liking, hiring someone with too much or too little experience or getting someone onboard you would need to train on the tools like Figma, Adobe Photoshop etc.
4. What is the difference between UI and UX design?
UI design is all about managing the user interface, making it lighter, efficient, and easier to use. UX design is about improving the user experience, beginning with user personas, customer journeys, wireframing and so on to achieve it.
5. How long does it take to hire a UI/UX designer?
The time to hire a UI/UX designer could be anywhere between a few days to a few weeks, depending on the experience levels and the strategies used in recruitment and the skills in demand by the business.
