UI vs. UX design
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- 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.
- identity0
mark this as the beginning of the UX/UI Spring!
Revolution!
- sted0
- SigDesign0
When you do both, I suppose you'll be labeled a 'Product Designer.'
I love how a new title is introduced, and then suddenly people have years of experience with that title.
- meffid0
There's no confusion here.
- shapesalad0
Ever time I see/read/hear 'UI' the chorus of this song runs through my head:
..."just you and iiiiiiiiiieiiieiiiiieiiiiieiiiii...
- cannonball19780
There are like, already a bazillion snot-nosed retards hammering out tons of palaver about this topic on various blogs and quora forums. The Bay Area is chock full of them especially. Despite everything I've read or heard about these terms I still don't understand why they have to be separate jobs. Maybe has something to do with strategic thinking being separated from production... another idiotic by-product of MBA thinking. Or maybe it has to do with UX people learning how to talk business speak.
- Cogs in the machine, assembly line breaking out of tasks.ETM
- ESKEMA0
@omg
you CAN design experiences. That's what design is all about.- so design me an experience then...omg
- that's like telling me that you can design a feeling or an emotion.omg
- I can design someting that will make you feel that emotion. thus, an experience.ESKEMA
- it would be nice to think that we can design feelings and emotions.omg
- and maybe one day, mankind could.omg
- but you design the design. Never the experience, because my emotions are mine, not designed by you.omg
- ok then, let's just leave it at that.ESKEMA
- mg330
- ETM0
- 20020
- mg330
I saw a great example given recently at a conference:
UI = the spoon and the bowl
UX = the process using the spoon and the bowl to eat cerealKeep in mind that UX and UI "design" mean different things to different people. To some people, conceptualizing the solution, making wireframes, making prototypes is design. And that's correct - you are DESIGNING something. But to others, the visual design that comes after the UX phase in a project is design. They intend "design" to only mean graphic/visual design.
- 20020
Engineer - "I designed a system"
- gramme0
^ Yeah the distinction does have more than a whiff of MBA thinking to it. It also reminds me of the mentality one finds among many union workers. Everything is compartmentalized. The hell with compartments, I say. If you're able to do so, find a client industry niche and build a vertically diverse skill set. That's the quickest – and most lucrative – way to become known as an expert.
- oey0
BUMP!
- riskunlogic0
- < http://www.jjg.net/e…riskunlogic
- Wow, this was from 2000, and still accurate.organicgrid
- riskunlogic0
^ Ah, damn it! Check th PDF instead: http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/…
- animatedgif0
Anti hotlinking is pretty poor UX
- Invalid0
The distinction is not about a specific occupation or role within a team. I think a lot of designers and employers get this confused. It's got more to do with the context of the methodology and task required to come up with the right solution.
I'd been trying to track down this diagram from Jesse Jame Garrett which I think best discribes the answer.