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User focus (frontend developer)

User focus involves understanding the user needs to develop a detailed understanding of the problems that need to be solved.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

  • show an understanding of user experience analysis and its principles
  • explain the purpose of user stories and the focus on user needs
2. Working

You can:

  • collaborate effectively with user researchers and interaction designers to represent user needs internally
  • champion user research to focus on all users
  • prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so
3. Practitioner

You can:

  • collaborate with user researchers and interaction designers to represent user needs internally
  • explain the difference between user needs and the desires of the user
  • champion user research to focus on all users
  • effectively prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others to do so
  • offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to use
4. Expert

This skill level is currently not defined.

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Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Apprentice frontend developerFrontend developer4Awareness
Junior frontend developerFrontend developer5Awareness
Frontend developerFrontend developer6Working
Senior frontend developerFrontend developer7Practitioner
Lead frontend developerFrontend developer8bPractitioner
Head of frontend developmentFrontend developer8cPractitioner