The role of
UX Designer
Responsibilities
A UX Designer has an overarching design role and often covers all parts of the design process. Hiring UX Designers is especially great for teams hiring their first designer and for small UX teams looking to grow. Once a team is big and mature enough, we encourage them to look into specialist roles.
UX Designers work closely with the entire product development team and can work as a strategic partner to UX Leads, Product Owners and Product Managers, providing input for the product vision and roadmap.
UX Designers are sometimes referred to as UX Engineers.
Specialization opportunities
for
UX Designer
- Specialise in one of the proposed specialisation areas for UX Designers, e.g. Accessibility, Facilitation, Product Design, Product Analytics, UX Research or Front-end Development
- Take on more responsibility and work towards becoming a Senior UX Designer
- Consider moving into a closely related field, such as Service Design
Accessibility
Accessibility is usability for people who interact with products differently. Learn how to help teams approach accessibility.
Front-end Development
Learn how to translate UX and design work into code or simply how to best communicate and hand-over design specs to developers.
Facilitation
Learn how to enable others to reach their goals, promote team collaboration and encourage innovative problem solving.
Product Analytics
Setting clear goals and following up on the impact of UX improvements can help guide research and design efforts.
Product Design
Learn how to build and maintain a design system and become a master at translating findings to user-friendly interfaces.
UX Research
Learn more about how to run research project, avoid bias in usability testing and structure, build and maintain research repositories.
Resources
Here you will find everything from Slack channels where you can connect with the design community, to events, links and community support from the Hubs.
- Welcome to Visma UX for new designers (monthly)
- UX Inspiration (monthly)
- Design System Inspiration with Figma (quarterly)
- UX Days (yearly)
Related roles
In Visma Learning Zone you will find an overview of all design roles and their different areas of expertise and responsibility. In addition, you will find how designers can grow in Visma.
A Service Designer addresses all touchpoints across the customer journey within a product line, including how the internal organisation works to deliver that customer journey.
A UX Researcher is responsible for the discovery and evaluation aspects of the design process. They focus on uncovering and understanding user behaviours, goals and expectations.
A Product Designer’s specialty is to translate user insights into attractive, easy-to-use user interface that customers and end-users want to use.