My UX Design Checklist for Thinking, Doing, and Learning — Part 1 Thinking

Shuxian Wu
7 min readJan 15, 2020

Thinking training should be part of a designer's life. I think from work, daily life, even philosophy. Keep thinking is essential to help myself grow, improve, practice, and learn more.

I chose to write down my current thoughts and lesson learned to summarize my knowledge repository for future review and critique.

Thinking Models & Process

1. User Experience 5 Elements

Strongly useful for non-UX gene company that without formal UX designer position. Thinking from macro to micro helps avoid missing any valuable thoughts.

Source from:https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/97077/is-functional-requirement-is-necessaryfor-wireframing

UX design is not the job of delivering interfaces without considering the company value, brand, goals, and development purpose. It is a holistic ecosystem combining user needs and business needs with the company’s own needs to polish the user experience balancing the three totally different requirements.

This thinking model helps a UX designer to think thoroughly before diving into a detailed design by asking the following questions.

“Who are the target users? What are their expectations? What are their pains? What can we do to stand out from the market?”

“What kind of company are we…

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Shuxian Wu

A user-immersed, problem-solving, user-centered designer