After years of favoring pragmatic, banal solutions over more avant garde ones, the tech industry has started to hold design as a preeminent focus. Smartphones have redefined mobility design, and HTML5 and CSS3 have enabled designers to get increasingly more creative with web design. Quality designers are in demand more than ever. As employment opportunities and salaries increase, designers are coming from a range disciplines are trying their hand at User Experience design. Additionally, as a younger generation has increasing power in the workplace, they bring new skills to rethink the clunky products of past decades.
Some key questions emerge with the UX design hype. What does it require to become a good user experience designer? Is knowing how to compose sexy graphics in Photoshop enough to design a product? Is having technical background essential for UX designers? What is the importance of collaboration and iterative design?