UX and UI refer to the visual components, interactions, and experience when using a product. UX refers to the overall experience of the product and how it makes the user feel. Things like the ease of navigation, page load times and related factors will impact the UX. UI design includes the components that bring the website to life, such as colors and typography, buttons, sliders and actions like clicks, swipes and pulls that move users from one page to another. Both UI and UX are equally important components of a product.
USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN (UX)
Good UX design means interviewing and observing users and designing the framework or overall layout of a product based on this insight. As a result, customer usability studies and tests are a significant part of UX design. A team might invite a group of customers to use a mobile app and observe as they interact with a product. Where do they get stuck? When do they ask for help? What do they enjoy? UX goes beyond the interface to the overall feeling and emotion a user should experience when interacting with a product or brand. The UX team designs concepts that influence the UI interface.
USER INTERFACE DESIGN (UI)
UI Design requires putting UX research into logical components. For example,d oes it make more sense to use a slider or a button? Should the field be a dropdown or an empty textbox? These are decisions that a UI designer makes. A good UI provides a consistent interface in a variety of mediums, whether web or mobile. It’s the UI designers duty to ensure that a client who switches from a desktop website to a mobile website finds continuity in the design and is able to use the product with ease. A good UI anticipates needs, it limits the time spent searching for information and creates a logical flow from one step to the next.
Still confused on the differences between UX/UI design? Check out some of our favorite explanations and analogies:
UX designers are primarily concerned with how the product feels…UI designers are particular about how the product is laid out. Lo Min Ming, Founder of Pixelapse via FastCompany.
UI without UX is like a painter slapping paint onto a canvas without thought; while UX without UI is like the frame of a sculpture with no paper mache on it. Rahul Varshney, Co-founder of Foster.fm via CareerFoundry.
User experience (UX) is the end result of User Interface design (UI). Jacob Cass, Just Creative.
Compare the process of building a website or application to a house. The beginning stages —deciding where the house is on the lot, where the sun will hit and the architect creating blueprints, that would be the UX side of things. UI is where the interior designer would come in. It’s turning the shell that was crafted into a home. Sarah Doody, UX Design Consultant via Talking Code podcast.
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