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When you're hiring a user experience 
designer, so a UX designer, as opposed to,  

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a UI designer, are there any hard skills 
that you would typically look for?

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- Yes, in the world of interaction design, the primary way you communicate

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is through interactive prototypes.

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So, you want to see that people have a

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faculty with one or more of the standard prototyping tools like Axure or Balsamiq.

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You would expect them to know Sketch or OmniGraffle,

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the Mac World – things like that, and that they can

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create interactive prototypes because the skill in interaction design is *designing over time*.  

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Sketching skills, storyboarding skills – very 
important; journey mapping – very important.

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The specific tool doesn't matter quite as much, because 
the tools change all the time.

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So, you want somebody who can quickly learn new tools. So, if somebody had been working,

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let's say, in Sketch and Envision

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and your team is using a different set 
of tools, it probably doesn't matter that much.

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But, again, in the portfolio would be artifacts of 
interactive prototypes

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and interactive to the level that they could be testable.

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So, you have to be able to communicate; if somebody comes in and says, "Well, I build all my prototypes in PowerPoint,"

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you can end the interview.