UI vs UX bullshit!
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- iGin1
Guys, I don't think User Experience is an enemy and I disagree, it's more than just a label. The real enemy to me are anyone that neglects products are designed for humans.
So maybe I misunderstood the message (english is not my first langage) but I felt this pic was pointing the fact that the Experience is not only the ability of a product to be effective or profitable.
To me the message was Design is also about the non-marketable and non-utilitarian aspect of things, that we should not "dumb down" the UX at the expense of creativity and that a product is also about "the feelings" users get from watching or using it, a dimension sophisticated capuccino toppings and 1999 iMacs look and feel conveys but what vending machine plastic cup coffee and beige PC completely miss despite being highly actionable, "scalable" or "using existing patterns".As @monNom puts it, a Designer "gives things personality" a value Marketers tend to neglect and Engineers to underestimate. Hence I believe the "don't let Marketers and Engineers dictate the definition of UX". I would totally agree with that.
Personally I have faced the "Takes too much time to make...." and " This is cute but..." lines many times. These words are on the same level as "Make the logo bigger" and "we need to fill all these white spaces".
To me it's just shame this illustration lacks to underline "UI" is not against but a part of the "UX".
- @PonyBoy: Coming back to your point:
"Those who can design, design; those who can't design, do UI/UX"
I used to think the same. For a while every UXers I met wiGin - ... were either former developers that got tired of their code monkey life or failed (visual) designers that sucked so badiGin
- ...so bad their last hope was the "art of wireframing".iGin
- @PonyBoy: Coming back to your point: