Nowadays, many of them are looking forward to becoming UX designers. Well, there are certain things that you need to keep in mind because there are many types of UX designers out there, and you simply have to relate yourself with one of them or simply all of them. Well, that depends upon the kind of opportunity that you are getting while looking for a job or an employment opportunity in the market. But first of all, you need to know about the different types. So let us simply start and jump with the very first one.

№1 — Interaction designers

These are the ones that are simply looking for developing or designing a product experience. To make you clear, they are the one who is actually targeting the user flow of an app or a product. In other words, you can say that “what is the user flow of a person who is simply opening up an app?”

Let’s say if he or she has to perform a task, let’s say ordering some sort of a burger or a specific type of pizza, they’re going to open up the app and they will be searching for the different categories of pizza. If they don’t like it, then they’re going to simply move on to the next one and once they find the thing that they’re looking for, they’re going to select it and then move towards the checkout section and finally placing the order after doing the payment. So this overall is the user flow and the manner in which a user is simply going through each and every step is the user flow.

So the interaction designer is actually targeting, concentrating, and focusing on making it easier, as easy as possible for an individual to simply enjoy the experience of a product.

№2 — Visual designers

They simply focus on how a product or app or service simply appears in front of their users. To make you clear, they are the one who is going to focus and concentrate on the design, the shape, and the look of different icons that are there in an application like “how should an icon be shaped? What should be the color of different icons? What should be the color combination of the entire interface?”

So all these things all together determine the visual experience for a user and this is something that is developed, determined, and decided by a visual designer.

№3 — Motion designers

These are the ones that are simply and critically observing what it feels like when a person or a user simply jumps into the app and starts moving from one page to the other like “What is the feel? How the apps and the different icons are moving, dragging from one place to the other, or how a simple user jumps from one page to the other? How is the experience?”

To make you clear, they are the one who is going to focus on the transition from one icon to the other, from one page to the other. Let’s say a user has simply selected a pizza and now is moving towards the checkout section in which he or she has to the payment like, “how was the experience of this transition? Did it happen like a slide moving from right to left or left or right or up to down or down to up?”

Each experience is going to have a long-lasting impact on a user, whether they like it or they were looking for something else. So this transition from one icon to the other or from one page to the other is something that is developed and decided by these motion designers.

So these are the things that are critically analyzed via motion designers.

№4 — Augmented reality and virtual reality designers

These are the ones who will be preparing you for the upcoming time in which you will be entering or at least experiencing metaverse one way or the other. Of course, many of you would have your own goggles through which you will be playing so many games and entering into another kind of immersive virtual experience. So let’s say if you simply put on a headset and go into another world, you know, simply disconnecting from the actual world in which you are right now sitting and reading this article. So in that case, you have simply entered the virtual reality and the manner in which it is constructed is something decided and determined by the virtual reality UX designer.

On the other side, if you still wish to stay connected with the world of which you are a part and still wish to experience some virtual characters or things or objects moving there in the actual reality, then you are basically experiencing the augmented reality that is developed by the augmented reality UX designers.

№5 — Other roles

Still, there are many roles in UX design and that means that you can simply take on the role of any one of these.

For example, you can become a UX researcher and start creating empathy maps, user persona, etc. You can also simply be a UX engineer and carry out the actual activity of designing an app or a product through carrying out the coding or you can simply be a program manager that is simply supervising the overall process of developing, designing, researching, testing, and getting all the feedback to incorporate the necessary changes to simply turn your product into the perfect one. So all these roles combined together make you a perfect UX/UI professional.

Conclusion

So I hope you got an idea and you would be able to differentiate between the different categories of UX designers and you can simply pick any one of these to pursue your own career. I wish you all the best.

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