What is the job of UI design?

To sum up, the work of UI designers mainly includes:

1. Responsible for the artistic design, creative work and production of the software interface;

2. Propose novel and attractive creative designs according to the user groups of various related software;

3. Optimize the page to make the user's operation more user-friendly;

4. Maintain existing application software products;

5. Collect and analyze users' demands for graphical user interfaces.

job requirement

According to the three specific categories of UI design mentioned above-graphic design, interactive design and user testing/research function-they respectively correspond to the professional knowledge of art design, the background of software engineer and the corresponding programming ability, as well as the literature reserves of sociology and psychology. Of course, in practice, these functions are not completely separated. Nowadays, this position covering many fields requires employees to have interdisciplinary and comprehensive theoretical literacy and practical operation ability at the same time.

In terms of working ability and practical experience, firstly, employees are required to master graphic software such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash, and web page making tools such as Html and Dreamweaver, so that they can independently complete static web page design; Proficient in operating common office software, and have the ability to apply other software; Familiar with Html, CSS, Javascript, Ajax. Second, it is required to have their own understanding and understanding of human-computer interaction of general software or Internet application products. Third, it has good aesthetic ability, profound artistic foundation, strong graphic design and web design ability. Fourth, it has keen user experience observation and innovative spirit.

Career prospects

With the gradual expansion of the technical field and the increasing awareness of humanization in product production, more and more enterprises begin to pay attention to the investment in interactive design and user testing. The "three-legged" situation in the field of UI design will increasingly become the general trend. This means that UI designers with comprehensive abilities in art design, programming, market research and psychological analysis will have a broader development prospect.

The interactive design in UI design has gone through the stage of command language interface based on character mode, and now it has reached the era of graphical user interface. However, people are still not satisfied with the status quo and are actively exploring new styles of human-computer interaction technology. At present, the commercial success of speech recognition technology and computer online handwriting recognition technology has made people see the dawn of natural human-computer interaction. The rapid development of virtual reality and multi-channel user interface also shows the development trend of human-computer interaction technology in the future-the emergence of new technical concepts such as "man-machine harmony" multidimensional information space is both an opportunity and a challenge for UI designers.

Now the domestic UI design is developing day by day, with a special professional division of labor, some high-level front-line designers and UI design exchange organizations have begun to appear. But generally speaking, in this field, the gap between us and western developed countries is still very obvious. Different from material products, the software field has limitations in technology and materials, and the core problem lies in people. Therefore, improving the personal ability of software UI designers and truly enhancing the humanization of software products has become the top priority of UI development in China.

Salary level

Among all kinds of software product designers, the income of UI designers is in the middle level. UI designers who have experience in UI design, excellent works and experience in big projects have a slightly higher monthly salary. If they can be promoted to design director, this figure will be even higher.

For the public.

At present, the development of domestic UI designers is still in its infancy, lacking a good resource environment for learning and communication. There are very few high-level UI designers in this field who can truly meet the market demand. The ever-changing development speed of IT industry and people's rising living standards also put forward higher and higher requirements for employees.

Therefore, UI designers should broaden their horizons in many different fields through continuous study and practice, especially in the humanities fields such as sociology and psychology, where human resources are generally lacking, and strive to develop in the direction of senior, senior designers and even design directors. In addition, those with strong coordination, organization, management ability and leadership qualification may be considered for promotion to IT project manager.