Design & User Experience Topics
User experience design, frontend architecture, and design systems. Includes UX principles, accessibility, and design documentation.
Pragmatism & Shipping Quality Solutions Within Constraints
Understanding real-world constraints (time, resources, technical limitations, budget, team capacity) and prioritizing effectively. Shipping good-enough solutions on time and in scope rather than endlessly iterating toward perfection. Balancing design quality and user experience with business needs and timelines.
Usability Testing and Validation
Comprehensive skills for planning, conducting, analyzing, and applying findings from usability studies to improve product ease of use and user satisfaction. Topics include defining clear research goals and success criteria, recruiting representative participants, writing neutral tasks and scenarios, and selecting appropriate methods and fidelity levels. Candidates should be able to choose and justify moderated versus unmoderated sessions, remote versus in person methods, and lab versus field testing, and to decide when to use low fidelity prototypes, high fidelity prototypes, or production interfaces. Coverage includes moderation and facilitation techniques, observational best practices such as think aloud protocols, strategies to reduce bias and demand effects, accessibility and cross device testing, and capturing both qualitative and quantitative data including task success, time on task, error rates, behavioral observations, and satisfaction measures. The topic also covers approaches to analyze and synthesize findings, triangulate qualitative insights with metrics, prioritize usability issues into actionable recommendations, create testable hypotheses, communicate results to stakeholders, plan iterative validation cycles, and integrate usability testing with other validation methods such as heuristic evaluation, analytics review, and split testing. Practical considerations such as sample size trade offs, session logistics, recording and consent, and tools for remote and unmoderated studies are also included.