I just started out as a frontend developer | UX Designer at my company and my CEO calls me the "UX guy" but I've never done any UX work! No interaction with users, no planning out a UI by considering their true need, I just design and develop the necessary pages and add functionality based on what my CEO tells me. That's it, I'm removing UX from my designation from now on, as I don't have any experience in that field even though my experience tells otherwise.

wow 😲
how did you get into your situation?

you know Medium?
It's a great resource to learn ux design.
www.uxplanet.org

Everybody has experience with UX.
Interactable things need something to see that its interactable.

You dont want to change to much from the default form elements, they make sense to everyone andit will become less clear when their appearance has changed to much.

You dont want to many navigation steps to reach something.

If you can do that and make it pretty you are probably a better UX designer than any UX designer Ive ever seen.

UX is basically common sense.

Signed a backend focussed Fullstack developer.

@heyheni , I've been on there for about two months, found it to be a great source.

@Codex404, really?! From what I read online, the things a UX guy does, its a pretty long list of identifying audience, making personas, to iterating design to tailor to their needs. What I'm doing is, create mockups on Photoshop, change it based on my CEOs instruction, develop it and give it for testing and production. What I am is a UI developer it seems but not UX. I have no interaction or know my users.

@diavel hmm you are right, but in my eyes keeping things in mind is good enough. Like for a website for children you can use tons of bright colors, something which is inappropriate for a the website of a gravesite.
UX is more than just that but still one of the most important things.

@Codex404 , yeah, I don't even know how much UX spans, that UI is part of UX and UX is like a lot more but I don't know how much more. Guess I'm gonna have to keep on reading.

wikipedia has a explainative graphic about that.