What is UX and UI design?

What is UX and UI?

UI design and UX design are two terms that are often confused in web and app design. Usually, it's hard to find the differences between the two without going too deep into the terminology. The following are the most basic knowledge of the two terms UI and UX.

By the end of this article, you'll have a clear understanding of what's the difference between them and how they relate to each other!

 

What is UI Design?

 

UI in UI design stands for “User Interface”. The user interface is the graphical layout of an application. It includes the buttons the user clicks on, the text they read, the images, the slider, the text input fields, and all the rest of the items the user interacts with. This includes screen layouts, transitions, interface animations, and any micro-interactions. All types of visual, interactive or animated elements must be designed meticulously.

This job belongs to UI designers, they decide what the app will look like. They have to choose a color scheme and button shape - the line width and font used for texts. UI designers create the look and feel for an application's user interface.

An UI designer also a graphic designer. They care about aesthetics. They design the interface of the app to be engaging, visually stimulating, and with a theme that matches the purpose and ethos of the app. And they need to ensure that every single visual element is unified in both aesthetic and purpose.

 

What is UX Design?

 

UX stands for "User Experience". The user's experience of the application is determined by how they interact with it. Smooth and intuitive experience or confusing and confusing? Is the application navigation logical or arbitrary? Does interacting with the app give people a sense of fulfillment or does it feel like a mess? User experience is defined by how easy or difficult it is to interact with the interface elements that user interface designers have created.

So UX designers are also concerned with the user interface of the application and this is why people get confused about the difference between the two terms above. But while UI designers are tasked with deciding how the user interface should look, UX designers are responsible for determining how the user interface should work.

If the application works well and seamlessly, the user will have a good experience. But if navigation is complicated or unintuitive, a lousy user experience can result. UX designers work to avoid the latter.

 

How UI designers and UX designers support each other

 

This is a collaborative process that tends to be closely related. As the UX team is figuring out the flow of the application, how all the user navigation buttons work, and how the interface effectively serves the user's information needs then the UI team is working on getting all these interface elements to appear on screen.

Ongoing communication and collaboration between UI and UX designers helps ensure that the final user interface looks as good as it can be, while also being efficient and intuitive.

 

Research is key

 

Research is very important for both UI and UX designers. It is important for both of these industries to gather as much information as possible to assist them in creating the right designs.

Both will research what the user wants. What they expect from developing apps. This research is often iterative, involving usability sessions in which real users will interact with scaled-down versions of certain functions or visual designs being tested to determine if designers are on the right track. Feedback is collected iteratively on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis to help make the app better and tested to see which design users will prefer.

Research is key to UX UI

 

Is UI or UX more necessary?

 

User interface design and user experience design involve very different skill sets, but they are integral to each other's success. A good design can't save an interface that is cumbersome and confusing to navigate, and a great, perfectly tailored user experience can be drowned out by bad visual interface design. These all make using the app annoying. Both UI and UX design need to execute and make sure to match the user's expectations in advance to create a great user interface/experience.