User Experience Design — A Head Start based on my view
UI/UX has been a buzz word among these days, especially among undergraduates sorting for opportunities in the industry as a professional. Well, most of them are in the preconceived notion that being a UI/UX engineer is the easiest to be and it requires little to no technical skills compared those which are expected of a candidate seeking an opportunity as a Software Engineer. Hence, this is quite a pattern that I been witnessing, where everybody is so fascinated and interested in UI/UX, but nobody seems to know what exactly is UI and UX (not to mention what the differences are) and what it takes to be a ‘great’ UI/UX Engineer. This has made most undergraduates, especially at the stage where they seek internships, get lost on – ‘is it good for me’, ’do I have what it takes to be a UX engineer ’, ‘what do I get to do as a UX engineer’ and so on. I may not be a designated UX Engineer, but had been having a keen interest in the area apart from my part-time designing which dr