UI vs UX bullshit!
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When I work with my clients, I make sure that we're talking about tangible tasks that support the holistic goals, desires, successes, etc that we're looking to provide to users. I know that sounds like high-falutin' BS, and I don't use those words exactly, but you get my point.
The tangibles all roll up to designing the UI. That's the thing we can literally design piece by piece. A tangible act is designing the UI for page navigation, or part of a financial UI. Or creating user flows that illustrate how the site works and what we expect users to do.
The holistic part is the UX. I can't "design the UX" per se. I can design the pieces that in turn support the user experience, for better or worse, but I don't put pen to paper and make a user experience.
Besides, the UX is so much more than the accumulation of the tangible pieces we create. I'm on a project now where I've really worked to get them to see the full circle view of user experience. It doesn't stop with the UX phase ending and devs building the new features. It goes beyond that to making sure people are being trained properly, that new features are being communicated properly, that someone is an evangelist for the application and wants to share their enthusiasm for it. I can't design that with a UI necessarily. It involves people and how they do their job well after my part is done.
Problem is, and I'm only assuming here, the younger generation is learning this in college now since it's a rapidly growing career. And I'm afraid many are learning the nuts and bolts / tactical part without understanding the holistic part. Maybe they are, I don't know. I'd love to see a course list for a UX major, if there is such a degrees speciality.
- seems to me you are way over-thinking this...PonyBoy
- Possibly... But anything to counter that ridiculous post at the top. LOLmg33
- It's how the corporate types talk, might be rubbing off. I'd rather just say "lets make sure good shit, everyone cool with that?"mg33
- Wow you're in ultra corp. speak mode. Lets table this conversation after the long weekend. lets see how some of your insights with marry with the clients ask.sofakingback
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- omfg, I genuinely hate myself little bit for typing that. Right here, in my heart, where I live.sofakingback