UI vs. UX design
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- ********0
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!
- ********0
UX design is and can be a job for any design medium as they call contain experiences that one interprets and builds designs that people can then experience from. I think people often think UI is visual, but a UI can be audio based, even gesture based in my opinion. But a necessary component to have if you expect a user to interface with your design....
- mydo0
to me it makes more sense if you you don't think of these jobs as digital. You could have a UI and UX designer for packaging too. The experience of opening an box is somewhat different to "open here" interface.
Both important rolls of a designer. And both make more sense than information architect - a title I loath.
We have a design director in our studio, mostly because the ambiguity is useful to cover all ux,ui,ai,la,la,las
- Hombre_Lobo0
I thought the difference was quite simple, to me its exactly as orrinward put it -
UI: Visual design of layout elements
UX: Conceptual design of a users flow through a system or product.
I think some confusion comes from how these terms and disciplines are often touched on, without consciously thinking about them. Most good designers will consider both if these even if when doing so they don't actively think of these terms. As mentioned previously good design encompasses these elements naturally.
- graham0
UI is part of the UX
- or you could think of it as there is no "I" in "UX" ;)alicetheblue
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- ********0
UX is what a person gets from a UI. You can't get a UI from experiencing something, but you do get a UX from using a UI.
UI -----> UX <------ UI -----> UX -----> etc.
P.S. you can't design an experience, as experiences are things that people mentally achieve from interacting with a person, place, thing.
- you can't design an experience? haha.studderine
- Not quite...Invalid
- Yes, mileage will vary; however, someone designed it and you are using it.studderine
- ... one design, multiple possibilities of experiences based on one's past learned experiences.********
- Profound... Now just click the damn link already!ETM
- meffid0
There's no confusion here.
- ESKEMA0
@omg
you CAN design experiences. That's what design is all about.- so design me an experience then...********
- that's like telling me that you can design a feeling or an emotion.********
- 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.********
- and maybe one day, mankind could.********
- but you design the design. Never the experience, because my emotions are mine, not designed by you.********
- ok then, let's just leave it at that.ESKEMA
- so design me an experience then...
- 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"
- 20020
Interaction Design + Visual Design = User Experience
- riskunlogic0
This diagram sums it up pretty well, although it is a bit outdated:
- < http://www.jjg.net/e…riskunlogic
- Wow, this was from 2000, and still accurate.organicgrid