Sarrah Vesselov is UX Lead at GitLab, an online git repository manager that allows people and businesses to manage projects as they change over time. GitLab is a way for developers, managers, developers, and designers to manage work together.

Sarrah explains that UI (user interface) is the tangible thing you see. It is about the structure, such as wireframes. Her focus within that UI is the UX (user experience). It is her job to evaluate that and ensure that it is the best experience possible. A wireframe is very base level blocking out, such as the structure of a house. A poor user experience is walking into a house and running into a couch, or not being able to reach a window.

As UX Lead, Sarrah’s main focus is keeping an overview view of everything. What are most important initiatives and the research being done to back up the decision making. She works with product managers to understand what users need. She does get into the design, and also even jumps into [...]