What is the difference between UX & UI?

Do you understand the difference between UI & UX, or is it a weird and confusing combination, well don’t worry after going through this blog you will understand what it is and what’s the difference between these two terms.

UI stands for User interface, which is the interaction between user and a computer.

Currently you are reading this blog on a web-page, what does it looks like how things are aligned, are you able to find the menu bar easily.

UX stands for user experience, which is the overall experience of interacting with web page, well it does include visual elements but also depends various other factors.

So just as an example imagine that instead of an website or application; lets assess the design of the meal. Everybody loves food :).

User interface of a meal would be how the food is presented, how are things aligned across the plate, does it look pretty or appetizing and of course its interactivity, so in our case; how easier is to put it on your plate and eat it.

User Experience would include many other factors, starting from what your friends think about a restaurant, how easily you could find a restaurant, the choice on the menu, the atmosphere of the place, meal presentation and it’s interactivity, its smell, taste, how nutrition it is and so on, even including how much you enjoy your company on dine Hmm.

As you can see the two concept overlapping to an extent and flow out of each other, however if you think about the jobs of a UX Designer vs UI Designer; their are quite different and the ultimate focus of the job.

UI Designers are focused on making a Website Look and Work Great, so basically how everything is aligned on different pages and whether is it user friendly whether you can find it intuitively, whether is it the right place for an image or this text or this buttons, navigation bar everything, where in UX Designer are more concerned with the Overall Vision of a website, so how the product feels.

So let think this way, a UX designer designs a path for the users to follow, because he or she thinks this is the most pleasurable path for a user to experience of a website and then the UI designer will create pages that will follow that path the UX designer has choosen for the user and because these roles, they have very different end focus however they are concerned with the very similar thing, and lot of companies actually combine them into one role, however there are lot of people specialized in one or the other.

I hope that you understand the distinction between UI & UX much better right now.

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