UI is how good the car looks, UX is how good you feel driving it UI is functional, UX is psychological, UI ,tinder profile, UX the date. Yes I decided to include that last one against better judgment but just to illustrate the fact that everybody has their own interpretation of what an experienced designer does versus what a user interface designer does. There's a lot of abstract and conceptual terminology thrown around in order to describe the two differences but I think it would be best to show more of a practical example in terms of what these differences are.
UI Design
This is a landing page for a fictional travel company. Average person might just think a UI designer or
interested in stuff like typography ensuring that they're adhering to good typography fundamentals. They're interested in white space or negative space which is what gives a user interface if structure between elements. They're also interested in colors in ensuring appropriate contrast for both usability and readability, they're also interested in icon and illustration design, they're also responsible for ensuring that the user interface looks good on all devices but the UI designers role is only just a
Reporting
UX design is a process that has many parts and usually starts with research. So research can be composed of understanding by conducting user interviews, to identify the requirements user personas which represents a typical user, to identify their goals and frustrations use cases how might different people use this product or service and the creation of journey Maps which is how a user might start and finish the experience. So as you can see the end result of a UI design is nowhere near to be found during this process.
Brainstorming
Next up we have brainstorming which includes creating user flows which are diagrams that outline the steps a user might take during the experience as they go from step to step in the UI and wire frame which is just a rough skeleton representation of the UI and the various components that make up that UI. After that we have implementation and this is where a UI designer would come into effect they create prototypes and these can be low or high fidelity prototypes which may or may not be interactive and also front-end and back-end development in being that. Once these prototypes are approved developers make the prototype a working product.
Reporting
Next up we have reporting. So once it has been implemented the product or the service you can have usability reporting which can involve observing real users using the actual product through a variety of means. This can include split testing which is testing the effectiveness of one design iteration over another and analytics reporting which helps you gain additional insights, such as time spent on pages bounce rates and more. so UX design is a process and it's usually a sequential process but it doesn't just end at reporting it's something that continually occurs in order to improve the overall experience. So you may be wondering to yourself if UI design is just a subset of UX design then doesn't that make a UX designer a UI designer .Well the answer is it depends and it depends on a few factors for instance if you're a freelancer and you're a one-man show, taking on everything then yeah you're a UX designer and you are a UI designer simultaneously and chances are even if you aren't aware of what experienced
designer has meant in the past and you build projects you are still assuming a lot of the rules of what a UX designer would do likewise. If you're working with a big company that has a lot of resources then they could have an entire team that makes up the whole UX design process and each person has their own specialties.
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