UX vs. UI
User Experience (UX)
Involves everything users do with a company's stuff.
Figures out and designs solutions that make users happy across different things.
Teams from different areas (like Engineering, marketing, design) work together.
User Interface (UI)
Is about the things users directly touch or see on a screen.
Makes digital stuff look good, with things like colors, buttons, and spacing.
UX vs. UI Analogy
UX is like the whole cake, representing the main user experience.
UI is like the icing on the cake, making things look and feel good.
Good UX is like a tasty cake, meeting expectations and making users happy.
UX and UI Collaboration
UX and UI work together closely.
UX focuses on understanding users and creating plans.
UI focuses on making things look nice with layouts and designs.
Think of it like a cake needing both the cake part and the icing to be good.
Definition
Comprehensive user interaction
Specific visual touchpoints and cosmetics
Scope
Entire user journey
Visual and interactive components
Collaboration
Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Focused on design and visual aesthetics
Analogy
Entire cake (core experience)
Cake's icing (look, feel, presentation)
Collaboration Flow
UX research, task flows,prototypes
UI layouts,visual system,mock-ups
In summary, UX and UI work hand in hand, with UX covering the overall user experience and UI focusing on the visual and interactive parts of digital products.
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