What is the Difference Between UI vs UX Designers?

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UI vs. UX design: What’s the difference?

User experience(UX) and user interface(UI) design are two different fields that have worked together to make a perfect and useful design for users. By this, we can say that both the UX field and UI field depend on each other. UX designer creates the foundation, and UI makes it the product on the base of UX designer research.

As we know In today’s era every person is using online platforms to order any product and buy anything so people want to complete the purchase with a minimum of clicks and with an easy process.

So the goal of UX designers is to make this task easy and allow a meaningful shopping experience. But UX designers will only tell the way and path by providing a prototype and UI designers is responsible for making thing practical any making the design by using coding languages.

 

The difference between UI and UX designers 

Job goals

• UX — The main objective is to create understandable and easy paths for the user to complete a single or multiple tasks.
• UI — The UI designer’s main aim is to use visual design elements such as components that are used again and again like buttons and dropdowns, styles such as colors, typography, and spaces, and interactions such as animations and transitions so that we can help the user complete single or multiple tasks.

Scope

• UX — here we use the principles of UX, design methodologies, etc. The tasks by which a project is completed are research, ideas, wireframing, prototyping, testing, etc.
• UI — here the main elements are components that help the user to perform the task properly the components such as buttons, dropdowns, or icons, and styles such as colors, typography, and spaces. UI design also play an important role for creating responsive designs and building layouts that resize properly to different screen sizes so that user can run the particular design on their machines.

Process

• UX — here the process depends on what framework the UX designer is using, the process may change accordingly. Here the process begins with understanding the problem and the target with research. Then, it moves to possible solutions with the help of workshops to finally build a wireframe and a prototype that will be tested and validated. Finally, after all the information from the feedback, is delivered will to development team to start building the first design according to the research.
• UI — After the discussion with UX designers, the UI designer will create all the layouts for all screen sizes supported, and the components and styles will be applied to create a polished wireframe. 

 

Deliverables

• UX — this includes a report with research, insights, and process. It will be in from of user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and documentation.
• UI — Final mockup, interaction elements such as animations, and any UI update for the design system

Tools

• UX — Figma that helps create wireframes or user journeys. To help us design in the research we have websites like usertesting.com, userzoom.com, and maze.com.
• UI — Again, Figma will take the lead in terms of the best software for the UI. For creating animations or videos, we can use Adobe Cloud software such as After Effects. 

Skills

• UX — There are so many software and hard skills required in the UX field. The skills that are required for UX are user research, wireframing, preparing and conducting workshops, and building user flows.
• UI — Requires skills in basic graphic and interactive design such as color theory, typography, responsive design, and visual hierarchy. UI skills also depend on the project and on the company.

UX design is a think-through process and it forms the foundation for a good UI. UI design beautifies the UX and creates visual hints and hierarchy to guide the user to complete the goal with a cohesive and engaging visual path.

 

What Does a UI UX designer do?

 

Tasks of a UX designer

1. User research — An essential part of the work is to understand the needs and objectives of the users for whom we are designing the product. Conducting interviews, surveys, benchmarks, and other research tasks can help gather user information and with the help of this information we can make the product.
2. Workshops —The workshop requires preparation based on the knowledge gathered from the research and is made of hands-on exercises. 
3. User flows — After the workshops, the UX designer will create user journeys with different possible scenarios to map out all the possible outcomes of the journey
4. Wireframing — The UX designer will create low-fidelity wireframes to visualize the user flows. The screens may be created in Figma, sketch or any other prototyping app.
5. Information architecture — As we know complex products need to be organized, and information needs to be structured per levels and other hierarchies.
6. Usability testing — Before developing any new product, the UX designer has to test it with users to find any usability issues and gather feedback to implement it in future interactions.

 

Tasks of a UI designer

1. Design system and visual components — When working on a product with multiple designers, it is important to have a common style and components. All these visual elements, styles, and rules are stored on a design system that is updated periodically by a team leader who reviews them.
2. Mockups and prototype creation — After the UX has been defined, the UI designer creates the interfaces by applying elements from the design system. Sometimes, a prototype is required to showcase the navigation and interactions that how our app works or performs.
3. Interactive design — Every interaction is a possibility to enhance the experience of the product. UI designers work on designing transitions between elements, creating of button states such as active or inactive, and also making more advanced animations
4. Responsive design — A pillar of UI designing is making a design responsive so it can resize properly on different screen sizes, from mobile to desktop.

 

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