What do you look for in a Senior UX Designer?

I had a chat the other day about this topic, and that lead me to write down a few ideas I have about this topic. What to look for on a Senior UX Designer?… here’s a few things that pop up immediately:

• Systems Thinking — understanding the how and why things work one way in society, organizations or technology is paramount to influence change on the right people at the right time
• Change Management — Launching a new awesome app is just not enough if that’s not accompanied by proper communication and engaging strategies
• Performing User Research and being a great observer, identifying patterns of behavior out of data and human observation.
• Be able to establish analogies across different industries and apply best practices. “What have others figure out, that we haven’t?”
• Practice evidence based Design. Don’t follow assumptions, but instead validate them and change ideas/believes quickly about what he/she thinks is the best solution.
• Visual Design or Art Direction, because in the end of the day the touch points of a system are mostly a visual interface of some sort.
• Communication skills because presenting solutions to a problem must be compelling and simple to everyone to understand.While asking the right questions, to go deep into the origin of problems.

What else do you look for on a contemporary Senior UX Designer?

Originally published at http://www.brunojulio.com on April 21, 2018.