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User Experience Designers

Experience, Skills, and Personality Traits

The completion of an internship or co-operative educational experience at a firm that employs user experience designers is required for entry-level positions.

User experience designers must have excellent design skills, but they also need a good understanding of psychology and marketing. The ability to communicate effectively and work well with others are also important because UX designers frequently work as a member of a team and interact with a wide range of people—from fellow UX designers, to programmers, clients, and top executives. Other key traits include creativity; the ability to multitask; problem-solving, time-management, and organizational skills; and pragmatism when it comes to design decisions (i.e., knowing how to balance good design with budgetary and time constraints). Finally, UX designers should have knowledge of Apache Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL, Oracle Java, Python, Linus, UNIX, JavaScript, Hypertext Preprocessor, as well as other software.

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