Why Visual Design Skills are a Must-Have for Good UX

Why aesthetic craft is a vital skill for UX designers looking to produce the best possible work.

Sean Dexter
6 min readApr 5, 2020

It’s not all that hard to come across these ideas in the UX industry:

UX and visual/UI design are mutually exclusive skill-sets best handled by entirely different types of practitioners.

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Sean Dexter

Staff Product Designer @ Walmart Data Ventures. Prev: Meta, HubSpot & Cigna. I write about UX, agile, & product. linkedin.com/in/seandexter1/