User Experience (UX) vs. User Interface
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:32 am
User Experience Design , as the name suggests, is a design focused on maximizing the level of satisfaction of the user who uses our website, store or product. When designing in accordance with UX , we focus on ensuring that the functionality and usability of our product brings the most positive emotions to the recipient, whether through a clear interface or intuitive navigation on the page.
The average user spends 10 seconds on a website to make a key decision - to stay longer or leave and never return. This is particularly important in a competitive market . The first impression does not have to create a WOW effect, it should make a potential customer interested in our website, and consequently - our business and our products. This is why thoughtful website design is so important .
This seems obvious, because when designing a product, we always want it to be received by the user in the best possible way, but designing in accordance with User Experience focuses on this aspect particularly strongly. This is because a responsible UX Designer , before starting any sketches or Lo-Fi prototypes of the product, must first see and define the problem that they want to solve with their product. Then they should conduct a market and competition analysis, get to know the expectations of potential future buyers of the product. Only then, after many stages of research, interviews and surveys, is the designer able to create the first outlines of the product desired by the recipients.
Contents
UX - User Experience - what does it consist of?
UX vs. UI. What is UI - User Interface?
So let's move on to the most important aspect of UX - conversion
Creation vs. Design
So what should you pay attention to when designing UX?
UI or UX? Both!
UX - User Experience - what does it consist of?
UX examines the emotions that accompany users browsing the site and it is not about the visual aspect but about whether browsing and navigating the site does not cause feelings of boredom, irritation and embarrassment. Good UX is intuitive and easy to use for a potential customer of our service or our product.
UX - what does it consist of?
A properly designed UX , in terms of web design, includes elements such as:
Information Architecture
This is the appropriate arrangement of the number and order of screens/views and their components. In other words, the designer must divide the content presented on the page into the most important, less important and additional and arrange them in such a way that all the most important information is easily accessible and clearly visible to every visitor to the page.
User interface
This element is closely related to information architecture, because the previous sub-item talked about where the most important information should be located, while this one talks about how to present this content. For example, if the first sub-item talked about the site menu, which should be at the top of the entire page, at this point we should consider what style or color scheme it should be presented in.
Interaction Design
It involves designing all the actions that will take place as a result of the actions taken by the user. Continuing with the menu example, at this point we should consider what changes will occur on the page when the user clicks honduras telemarketing data on a given menu item, what animation should occur, should a submenu expand?
Communication
Every designed website communicates whether we want it to or not. A poorly designed website communicates a lack of professionalism, a well-designed website communicates the opposite. So let's try to make sure that the design we create gives users the certainty that we are trustworthy. In addition, our website must be easy to read and convey content in a way that is understandable to the recipient.
Research problem
As I mentioned earlier, the most important element of UX design is defining the problem that we want to solve by introducing our product. That is why it is very important to constantly monitor its performance after making any changes to our website and ask ourselves the question “Does it still meet its assumptions?”
Technical page
UX Design is very extensive at the design stage, you have to take care of many aspects, as I mentioned - the research problem, information architecture, graphic style, interaction design. However, User Experience does not end with the release of the final version of the product/website, it reaches far beyond this moment, because it is equally important to continue to control and supervise the functioning of our product. We should regularly analyze and interpret the behavior of recipients and meet their expectations.
UX vs. UI. What is UI - User Interface?
UI is a collection of methods, styles, solutions and other means of expression, the task of which is to design a user interface that is convenient to use and aesthetic . UI deals with the design of all visual elements that serve and facilitate control and navigation and invoking appropriate system actions. On a website, these will be, for example, buttons, menus, galleries, forms, but also text layout or selection of appropriate colors. In short, UI is everything we see. We have already written about the principles of creating correct forms .
Website design
Very often, the pages are similar to each other: a menu at the very top, a logo in the upper left corner, a product photo, information sections and a footer. Sometimes we come across a contact form, sometimes a newsletter, and almost always a section with a button that triggers the main action of the service. This repetition results from a simple rule. When designing UI, you should take into account the habits of users . Of course, no one stops anyone from breaking the prevailing trends and rules. However, this must be done in a thoughtful way and preferably supported by appropriate analyses.
UX vs. UI
Often the concept of User Experience (UX) is confused with User Interface (UI) , which is a big mistake. True, these terms are related, but they are based on a completely different approach to the subject of design.
As we already know, a UX Designer is mainly responsible for the psychological aspects of the designed product, to a much lesser extent they are responsible for the purely visual side. Their task is to ensure that the final product is received as best as possible by users, they ensure that, for example, the website is legible and clear, its content is valuable and its functioning is efficient and engaging.
The UI Designer is responsible for preparing elements such as the graphic design of the page, visual components of the page (graphics, photos, icons). In other words, the person designing the User Interface should make what the UX Designer has planned as aesthetic and attractive to the recipient as possible, without disturbing the assumptions of functionality and usability.
It is true that each company with an extensive graphic sector has a different approach to these two positions, which makes it increasingly difficult to define clear differences between them. However, some of them remain unchanged, some of which I would like to present here.
The average user spends 10 seconds on a website to make a key decision - to stay longer or leave and never return. This is particularly important in a competitive market . The first impression does not have to create a WOW effect, it should make a potential customer interested in our website, and consequently - our business and our products. This is why thoughtful website design is so important .
This seems obvious, because when designing a product, we always want it to be received by the user in the best possible way, but designing in accordance with User Experience focuses on this aspect particularly strongly. This is because a responsible UX Designer , before starting any sketches or Lo-Fi prototypes of the product, must first see and define the problem that they want to solve with their product. Then they should conduct a market and competition analysis, get to know the expectations of potential future buyers of the product. Only then, after many stages of research, interviews and surveys, is the designer able to create the first outlines of the product desired by the recipients.
Contents
UX - User Experience - what does it consist of?
UX vs. UI. What is UI - User Interface?
So let's move on to the most important aspect of UX - conversion
Creation vs. Design
So what should you pay attention to when designing UX?
UI or UX? Both!
UX - User Experience - what does it consist of?
UX examines the emotions that accompany users browsing the site and it is not about the visual aspect but about whether browsing and navigating the site does not cause feelings of boredom, irritation and embarrassment. Good UX is intuitive and easy to use for a potential customer of our service or our product.
UX - what does it consist of?
A properly designed UX , in terms of web design, includes elements such as:
Information Architecture
This is the appropriate arrangement of the number and order of screens/views and their components. In other words, the designer must divide the content presented on the page into the most important, less important and additional and arrange them in such a way that all the most important information is easily accessible and clearly visible to every visitor to the page.
User interface
This element is closely related to information architecture, because the previous sub-item talked about where the most important information should be located, while this one talks about how to present this content. For example, if the first sub-item talked about the site menu, which should be at the top of the entire page, at this point we should consider what style or color scheme it should be presented in.
Interaction Design
It involves designing all the actions that will take place as a result of the actions taken by the user. Continuing with the menu example, at this point we should consider what changes will occur on the page when the user clicks honduras telemarketing data on a given menu item, what animation should occur, should a submenu expand?
Communication
Every designed website communicates whether we want it to or not. A poorly designed website communicates a lack of professionalism, a well-designed website communicates the opposite. So let's try to make sure that the design we create gives users the certainty that we are trustworthy. In addition, our website must be easy to read and convey content in a way that is understandable to the recipient.
Research problem
As I mentioned earlier, the most important element of UX design is defining the problem that we want to solve by introducing our product. That is why it is very important to constantly monitor its performance after making any changes to our website and ask ourselves the question “Does it still meet its assumptions?”
Technical page
UX Design is very extensive at the design stage, you have to take care of many aspects, as I mentioned - the research problem, information architecture, graphic style, interaction design. However, User Experience does not end with the release of the final version of the product/website, it reaches far beyond this moment, because it is equally important to continue to control and supervise the functioning of our product. We should regularly analyze and interpret the behavior of recipients and meet their expectations.
UX vs. UI. What is UI - User Interface?
UI is a collection of methods, styles, solutions and other means of expression, the task of which is to design a user interface that is convenient to use and aesthetic . UI deals with the design of all visual elements that serve and facilitate control and navigation and invoking appropriate system actions. On a website, these will be, for example, buttons, menus, galleries, forms, but also text layout or selection of appropriate colors. In short, UI is everything we see. We have already written about the principles of creating correct forms .
Website design
Very often, the pages are similar to each other: a menu at the very top, a logo in the upper left corner, a product photo, information sections and a footer. Sometimes we come across a contact form, sometimes a newsletter, and almost always a section with a button that triggers the main action of the service. This repetition results from a simple rule. When designing UI, you should take into account the habits of users . Of course, no one stops anyone from breaking the prevailing trends and rules. However, this must be done in a thoughtful way and preferably supported by appropriate analyses.
UX vs. UI
Often the concept of User Experience (UX) is confused with User Interface (UI) , which is a big mistake. True, these terms are related, but they are based on a completely different approach to the subject of design.
As we already know, a UX Designer is mainly responsible for the psychological aspects of the designed product, to a much lesser extent they are responsible for the purely visual side. Their task is to ensure that the final product is received as best as possible by users, they ensure that, for example, the website is legible and clear, its content is valuable and its functioning is efficient and engaging.
The UI Designer is responsible for preparing elements such as the graphic design of the page, visual components of the page (graphics, photos, icons). In other words, the person designing the User Interface should make what the UX Designer has planned as aesthetic and attractive to the recipient as possible, without disturbing the assumptions of functionality and usability.
It is true that each company with an extensive graphic sector has a different approach to these two positions, which makes it increasingly difficult to define clear differences between them. However, some of them remain unchanged, some of which I would like to present here.