UX Designer Skills Gap Assessment

What the UX Designer assessment covers

You answer yes or no to short statements about what you have actually done. Each statement belongs to one of 10 skill areas, and each area is weighted by how often employers ask for it, so the score reflects what jobs need.

Skill areas

• UX process and fundamentals. Product design and UX/UI design experience, end-to-end thinking, wireframes, flows and journey maps.
• Visual and interaction design craft. Visual design, typography, composition and hierarchy, interaction design, responsive web design, mobile patterns and motion.
• Figma and prototyping. Figma most often, then prototyping and rapid prototyping, with some asking for HTML/CSS, design-to-code and motion tools.
• Design systems. Contributing to and using a design system, with some asking for multi-brand or multichannel systems.
• User research and usability testing. Usability testing most often, then interviews, contextual inquiry, qualitative methods, concept testing and synthesis.
• Recruitment, ethics and research operations. Recruiting participants, including specialized and B2B audiences, plus reusable research practices, repositories and project management.
• Quantitative research and data. Mixed-methods research, A/B testing, behavioral analytics tools, interpreting experiment results, telemetry, statistics and data visualization.
• Collaboration and communication. Cross-functional work with product and engineering is the most common ask, plus explaining design decisions, presenting, taking feedback and influencing stakeholders.
• AI tools in design and research. Thoughtful use of LLM and AI tools in prototyping, testing and research analysis, and designing interaction patterns for AI products.
• Portfolio, leadership and domain knowledge. A portfolio that shows thinking, plus mentoring, hiring, leadership, accessibility and localization, and domain knowledge such as SaaS, eCommerce or regulated industries.