UI vs. UX design
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- omg0
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.omg
- Profound... Now just click the damn link already!ETM
- monospaced0
I share your confusion. I thought the ideas of user interface and experience were kind of implied in the word "design" when combined with titles such as "web" or "interactive."
- omg0
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....
- ESKEMA1
The UX part could be done by one person, and the UI by another. Although one could do it all, there's a difference. UX will define how it works, how we interact with it. UI will style it, define how it looks.
- explain further, pleezealicetheblue
- Then, if there are two people doing this, where the fuck does the ACTUAL designer come into play?monospaced
- lol monospacedalicetheblue
- Better done by one person, IMO.ETM
- Always thought the UX "experience" styled it. The "UI" comes from wireframes, etc, which define workflow.Peter
- alicetheblue0
whaaaaa I have always been confused, too
- monospaced1
@ESKEMA
I thought the "design" would define how it works. Meaning, if it's an effective design, it's easy to use. This makes having a dedicated UX guy kind of pointless, in my opinion. Likewise, having an interface guy seems redundant as, once again, a successful interface is a result of a good "design." Why a "designer" can't cover these roles is beyond me still.
- Most designers do cover these roles, or considers UX and UI as part of the design process.goldieboy
- But, I have a UX designer who just wireframes for me. They look at the whole journey/process from A-Zgoldieboy
- UI designers are, to me, the guys that do the initial art working based on the creative direction CTAgoldieboy
- gramme0
This is like ye olde tymes when we saw designers, typesetters, and compositors all working on the same thing.
I wonder if the UI/UX distinction in roles will disappear in similar fashion.
- All overseen by a creative director, design director, and type director. Mercy.gramme
- Mad Men style.monospaced
- zaq0
AI is introducing the third user-interface paradigm in computing history, shifting to a new interaction mechanism where users tell the computer what they want, not how to do it — thus reversing the locus of control.
- dijitaq0
ux is when you design the functions of the website. let say the process a user goes through when they click the sign-up button. a bit like storyboarding when you make a movie. where as ui, is creating the interface while the user goes througj the sign-up process.
it's how someone describef it to me.