What did I learn this week?

Aathira Varma — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 05:35:24 +0000

This week has been the most tedious one as compared to the the whole lockdown or say whole year's week. The GeekWeek local conducted by the Geek for Geeks chapter in VIT Bhopal University. Participating in it has proved to be one of the good decision ever made by me. From learning git controls to learning self made voice assistants I guess I have made a basic or beginner level knowledge in some projects atleast.

Difference between UI and UX designers??

Aathira Varma — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 10:35:32 +0000

UX (User Experience) and UI (User Interface) design are, in the grand scope of tech roles, somewhat similar. But they are actually two different disciplines.
So, We often think UI and UX designers are the same or rather one is just a synonym of the other right?Let me tell you everything you need to know about the main differences between UX and UI.

What Is UX?

UX, or User Experience design, was first laid out by Don Norman in his 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things. UX, as detailed by Norman, is everything that a customer experiences with a company, from first introduction, to on-boarding, throughout their relationship with the company. User experience design is a human-first way of designing products.

UX applies to anything that can be experienced — be it a website, an android screen or a coffee machine. The “user experience” part refers to the interaction between the user and a product or service.A UX designer thinks about how the experience makes the user feel, and how easy it is for the user to accomplish their desired tasks. It’s more about how the product made them feel about.

User experience design is the process of developing and improving the quality of interaction between a user and all facets of a company. It focuses on overall feel of the experience.

What Is UI?

User Interface (UI) Design is extended to digital products, as the designer focuses on the actual graphical user interfaces(GUI’s)of a product. Be it for mobile apps or desktop software ,or interactive methods like menus, buttons, forms…anything you can swipe, scroll, or click on. UI Designers are a kind of Graphic Designer, as they choose things like colour schemes, fonts, line spacing, transitions, and many more components of a user interface.
Like user experience design, user interface design is a multi-faceted and challenging role. It is responsible for the product’s development, research, content and layout into an attractive, guiding and responsive experience for users.

User interface design is a purely digital practice. It considers all the visual, interactive elements of a product interface — including buttons, icons, spacing, typography, color schemes, and responsive design.
The goal of UI design is to visually guide the user through a product’s interface. It’s all about creating an intuitive experience that doesn’t require the user to think too much!

A UX Designer is like the architect, who thinks about how human beings use houses, what their overall experience of the house should be.
The Engineers are the builders who actually…build. The Product Manager is the site manager, who makes sure that everyone is working in harmony.
The UI Designer is the interior designer, who works out which door handles to use, which way the windows are going to open, which rooms will have carpet and which will have tiles, what color to paint the walls, and so on.
UX and UI are equally essential for the success of a product. Without a UI Designer, you’re left with black and white wireframes with no graphic design, and the user will not enjoy using it…or even know how to use it and without a UX Designer, you’ve just got a random collection of buttons and menus, with no thought behind them.

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What did I learn this week?

Difference between UI and UX designers??

What Is UX?

What Is UI?