Absolutely not. You do not need to be an artist to become a UX Designer. A UX Designer’s job entails interacting with clients, performing user and market research, coming up with design solutions and ideas, sketch and prototype the concepts and drive the project. You absolutely require no artistic skills to do all of the above things. Even when it comes to sketching ideas, wireframes or creating prototypes you don’t need to make your ideas look like an artist’s work. That is essentially not our job to do. It’s all about our thought process which count and not Picasso-like drawing skills.
About Swathi Kirthyvasan
Swathi is a Product UX Strategist and Content Writer currently digging deep into AI, Psychology and building useful Edtech products for students.
When not doing any of the above, she can be found in the middle of experimenting with multiple art styles and mediums to create vibrant, intricate artwork, teaching, mentoring and reading. She also dabbles with photography, is an amateur runner and loves her daily cup (or two) of herbal/green tea.