User Interface and User Experience Design
What is User Interface Design?
User Interface is the point of interaction between a user and a digital product or device. UI design considers all visual interactive elements of a product interface.
UI design transfers the brand strength and visual assets to a product’s interface, making sure the design is consistent, coherent and aesthetically pleasing.
What is User Experience Design?
“User experience encompasses all aspects of the end-user’s interaction with the company, its services, and its products.”
– Don Norman, Cognitive Scientist & User Experience Architect
User Experience refers to any product that can be experienced. UX design is a homocentric way of designing products. It encompasses all interaction between a customer and a company., a user and a product or service.
UX design considers all the elements that shapes this experience- that makes it come alive.
Major Differences between UI and UX Design
“UI is the saddle, the stirrups, and the reins. UX is the feeling you get being able to ride the horse.”
— Dain Miller, Web Developer
UI design is about creating intuitive, aesthetically pleasing interactive interfaces; UX design is about identifying and solving user problems.
UI is specific to digital products nd experience; UX can apply to any kind of product, service or experience.
The UI designer makes the visual and interactive elements. UX designer maps out the bare bones of the user journey
