What is a UI and UX design?
What is a UI and UX design?
“UI or User Interface can be simply defined as anything with which a user may interact to use the digital product or services. User experience comprises all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products.”-GraffersID
If you are in the digital Industry, you must have heard the two terms UI and UX, when it comes to product design. UI Stands for user Interface and UX stands for user experience. In web and app development UI design and UX design are the building blocks of the accessible product. Both are used together and Integral to the success of the other, but they are not the same concept rather both are quite different from each other. In this blog we bring you simple and accurate definitions of both UI and UX design.
What is UI?
UI which stands for User Interface, a digital term concern with look, feel, presentation, and Interactivity of a product. It is a point of Interaction between the user and the digital product. User Interface consist of input hardware like mouse, keyboard, printers, which work with output devices to control the machine. UI designer main aim is to make the user’s experience with the digital product attractive and appealing.
Different types of UI design:
– Command line Interface
– Graphic user Interface
– Fact
– Voice user Interface
What is UX?
UX refers to user experience included the end-user Interaction with the company, service, or products which in fact a non-digital practice that focuses on the overall feel of a product or a service. It is mainly focused on the actual experience that the user had with the product. It is concerned with the quality of Interaction. The objective of UX design is to create easy, relevant, and pleasant experience for users. It all about coming to understand how users feels when they Interact with the app. Five main elements of UX designs are:
- Well-organized architecture
- Interaction Oriented design
- Usability aligned design
- Visually appealing design
- Planned user research
| UX | UI |
| Overall feel of the experience. | Product Interface look and function. |
| More attention towards the backend. | More attention towards the frontend. |
| Generally, use three colors in design. | Design prototypes in full colors. |
| Use prototype tools such as Mock plus. | Use tools like flinto, principle and Invision. |
| Makes Interface useful
| Makes Interface beautiful |
| Helps in accomplishments of goals. | Makes emotional connection |
| UX design occurs through the Products, Interfaces, and services. | It is limited to Interfaces |
Conclusion:
Both UX and UI design includes different skill sets but work together and Integral part of each other’s success. Both are important part of product designing and it is just not possible to go forward without consulting UX and UI design.
Source: (https://trigma.com/technology/what-is-ui-and-ux-design/)
(https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/introduction-to-ux-ui)
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