UI vs. UX design
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- utopian0
What Is Zero UI? (And Why Is It Crucial To The Future Of Design?)
For better or worse, a large amount of design work these days is visual. That makes sense, since the most essential products we interact with have screens. But as the internet of things surrounds us with devices that can hear our words, anticipate our needs, and sense our gestures, what does that mean for the future of design, especially as those screens go away?
- I'd like to see my banking app communicate my balance and recent transactions by gestures and beeps only.shapesalad
- There's still going to be visual ui design. A lot of voice and gesture stuff is novelty. Hyped up, then it'll settle into where it's really needed.shapesalad
- 20020
Interaction Design + Visual Design = User Experience
- CygnusZero40
How do people not know the difference between interface, and experience? Pretty crystal clear. UI is the buttons, scrollbars, graphics. UX is if it makes you feel good or bad, confused or satisfied.
- utopian0
A UX Legend On The Much-Rumored Death Of The Design Firm
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3051…
- bklyndroobeki-1
They are now 1
- erm, they're not.see_thru
- see, the two are merging for sure. i believe that they originally were one.bklyndroobeki
- imbecile-1
- lukus_W20
While there's a lot of debate about the subject, UX is an umbrella term for a number of separate disciplines - each of which go towards providing a successful user experience.
This diagram gives one interpretation:
UI design doesn't necessarily have to take stock of context, psychology or the motivation of users.
A lot of UX practice involves researching problems that users currently (and potential will) experience with products and systems .. which allows hypotheses to be drawn about the best way forward.
- fuck me, is there no room for a regular designer anymore?monospaced
- just call yourself an art director and boss all those people around.zarkonite
- too bad information architecture is a dead industry, better handled by graphic designersomg
- ksv1230
here is another read.
- ukit20
A lot of the confusion stems from the fact that like lukus said, people don't 100% agree about what these terms mean. The separation between UX and visual design that kona is talking about is pretty common, but if someone brought up "UI design" to me I wouldn't be 100% sure they were only talking about the visual design aspect.
And if you look up UI design on Wikipedia it doesn't refer to it that way...the term really predates that separation. Also at big tech companies they often refer to their entire design department - visual and all - as "User Experience."
- dMullins0
The challenge with UX design is you can try, try and try, but you'll never fully design the experience a user has from front to back.
