what is UI/UX design?

UX and UI are often interchangeably but in designing terms ‘UX’ is related to the experience of product and UI relates to the poor ‘UI’ of a specific website.

The term ‘UX’ refers to “user experience” is define by Don Norman in the late 1990s he expresses as

“User experience encompasses all aspects of end-user interaction with the company, its services, and products”.

While ‘UI’ refers to “User interface design”.

1. UX Design

UX and UI design work closely with each other and the user experience part refers to how is an experience of product on using which includes the interaction of user and product or service. On using the product it tells us how the user feels while using the product for eg. While buying a product from e-commerce or any website we can make easy payment online this experience feels the user manages money. So the ultimate design of the website makes the user experience pleasant.

Ux design mainly focuses overall feel of the experience.

The Following image shows UX design :

2. UI Design

UI design considers look, feel easiness, attractiveness to the website, app to feel more interactive to the product. UI does interaction Between user and digital device or product for eg. While using WhatsApp on touchpad and touchscreen the user is more reliable to the touchscreen is because of using interactive way i.e

touchscreen. Ui designer will think of icons & buttons, typography & color schemes, spacing imagery, and responsive design. UI design makes sure that the design is consistent, coherent, and aesthetically pleasing that doesn’t require a user to think too much. But the development of the product starts with us and is followed by UI. Both are essential for a successful product.

The Following image show UI design:-

Which Career Path Should Choose UX or UI?

TO choose the role here are some responsibilities are listed for UX and UI.

For UX

Competitor analysis
User Research
Product strategy and structure
Content development

Another step-like blueprint

Wireframing
Prototyping
Testing
Development Planning

UX role is vast in the development of product

For UI designer the responsibility are as follows:-

Design Research
Branding and graphic development
User guides and storylines
UI prototyping
Interactive and animation
Implementation with developer

UX is creating an awesome user experience. This role is complex and challenging. User is necessary because what our users will experience won’t fail to notice. user-research helps us to find out how our target customers feel while interacting with the designed product. So user research needs to begin building the product. We can’t proceed without information so it involves

Online survey
Interview
Persona

UI designer’s role is to design all the screens through which a user will move and will create a visual element. UI design also thinks about the inhuman aspect of how the user’s mind will feel while using the product. In short UI designer is full creative work. UI designers need an understanding of color theory, typography, and UI design pattern.

Both UX and UI can work separately as work is different.

Is a Graphics Designer is Same as a UI UX Designer?

Generally, we relate the word ‘design’ to a graphic designer but now with the evolved of technology of the design sector from print media to web design, software the jobs are also evolved so I will explain to you the difference in graphic designer, UI UX designer

Graphic Designer:

Graphic designer used their imagination, color, typography, print media to convey the art. Graphic designer communicates by the idea of branding and advertising with the help of print media and visuals. Basically graphic designer polished the end product by feeling and emotion

By using fonts and visuals and the software used by a graphic designer are:

Corel Draw
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign

UX Designer:

UX designer is completely working with how the user feels and experience depend on it UX design is logic-based which interact according to the user-specific problem and user-centric. UX designers go through no of stages to get the end result such as interviews, competitive analysis of products, human factors, and persona. Ux designer work in the validation phase

Software used for researches are:

UX Maps
Woopra
Mouse Stats
User Testing

Design tools used by Ux designer are:

Flinto
Adobe Photoshop
Balsamiq
Sketch
Azure
Adobe Illustrator

UI Designer:

A UI designer is based upon provided UX by a UX designer. UI designer deals with interactive elements of the user interface the color scheme, typography, drop-down, buttons, animation. Basically, the UI designer designs each screen and follows the path provided by the UX designer as design visually. It fulfills the end requirement of the product or service provided by the UX designer.

Software used by UI designer are: