The Purpose

This collection is designed to be a quick, visual guide to what it takes to become an outstanding UX/UI designer in a modern product team. It connects core skills—like user research, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and collaboration—with a practical, step-by-step approach you can apply to any project.

Why Skills Matter

Outstanding UX/UI designers blend hard skills such as information architecture, wireframing, and prototyping with soft skills like empathy, communication, and critical thinking. These capabilities enable designers to understand real user needs, make intentional design decisions, and iterate toward solutions that work beautifully in the real world.

The Six-Step Design Journey

The six major steps in this pamphlet distill widely used UX and design thinking processes into a simple, repeatable journey—from empathizing with users and defining the problem, to ideating, prototyping, testing, and refining your final design. Each step includes focused prompts and visuals to help you move from insight to implementation without losing sight of the user experience.

How To Use This Guide

Use these pages as a roadmap for your own projects: check your skills against the list, map your work to each step, and note where you want to grow next. Whether you are just starting in UX/UI or leveling up your practice, this pamphlet is a compact toolkit to support thoughtful, future-ready design decisions.