What is the difference between a UX Designer, Product Designer and UX Researcher?

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It can depend on the company because a lot of times a UX and a product designer are used interchangeably. A product designer is more inclined to be looking at the ecosystem outside the product features and building strategy around it within the entire system. UX can be more focused around a single step in the funnel or around a signature function or feature. There's lots of overlap though.

A UX researcher makes the research a priority and specializes in collecting and interpreting that data. A UX designer or product designer might use these tools as well but also has a variety of other responsibilities. It depends on the structure and size of the team. If there's only one person on the design team it's more likely that person will have to do a little of everything.

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Also sorry for the late reply friend

We have a large in-house XD team with about 2/3rds product designers and 1/3rd dedicated researchers. The designers sometimes do lightweight research, if it's a quick project or there isn't enough dedicated researchers to go around. Our researchers don't design. The designers are more like generalists.

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That sounds interesting. What do you mean by lightweight research?

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