What exactly is it you do for work?

Explaining UX with every day things

My mother has no idea what I do for a living. She doesn’t even know it’s ‘UX’ let alone what UX is (I have told her, it’s just that the phrase is so foreign to her that she can’t seem to retain the term). One of my sisters always calls me an ‘X-U designer’… whatever that is. While ‘laypeople’ may not have experience with certain tech roles…