How I figured out the secret magic of user experience design

Have you ever noticed that how mothers resemble to user experience designers?

When I first read a description for user experience designer, I felt how familiar that role seems to me.

Suddenly an idea popped up in my mind: Mothers are the best UX designers. They design the best life experience for their kids which is a kind of user experience design in a very huge dimension.

We all know about user experience design: user research, ideation, information architecture, creating stories and personas, user interaction design, sketches and prototype, interface design and testing and finally creating the best experience ever!

Let me tell you how a mother has the natural UX design skills and how her resume is better than anyone else in this field.

Mothers before having their babies are full of dreams and fantasies, they gather information from everyone and everything. They ask themselves how I will introduce this complicated world to my baby? Mothers are great researchers!

Obsessed with colors, harmony and beauty, I was waiting for a baby! Later, I became master of creating visual clues for the baby! When a baby cries mother shows her a toy or a bottle of milk. Looks into the baby’s eyes. Shows the clues. Mothers teach the meaning of the beauty. I remember the first time I showed rain to my son and he shouted “water” and looked at sky. Creating beautiful environment, meaningful visual clues, Mothers are unique visual designers!

1,2, 3, … A, B, C, D, … Then: you have one blue balloon and one red balloon, you have two balloons. Then, Mom, who is Beethoven? How does a fan work? World war II? why? What is a chain? I had to structure and organize the information from the simplest to the most complicated life facts and concepts. Mothers are information architects!

One of the fundamentals of a user experience is Interaction design: Interpreting and translating technical and logical steps into very simple tasks. I used to read Tin Tin books for a 4-year old and everyone asking me how I could do that. Literally, I wouldn’t read the exact words. I just translated the story into a four-year old kid language. Mothers create the best way for the child to interact…