UI And UX, What Is The Difference

This includes screen layout, transitions, interface animations and every single micro-interaction. Any sort of visual element, interaction, or animation must all be designed.

This is built by UI designers. They decide what the application is going to look like. They must choose color schemes and button shapes — the width of lines and the fonts used for text. UI designers create the look and feel of a website/application’s user interface.

UI designers are graphic designers. They are concerned with aesthetics. It is up to them to make sure the application’s interface is attractive, visually stimulating and themed appropriately to match the purpose and/or personality of the app. And they need to make sure every single visual element feels united, both aesthetically, and in purpose.

Does navigating the website/application feel logical or does it feel arbitrary? Does interacting with the website/application give people the sense that they are efficiently accomplishing the tasks they set out to achieve or does it feel like a struggle? User experience is determined by how easy or difficult it is to interact with the user interface elements that the UI graphics designers have created.

UX determines the structure of the interface and the functionality of a website/application. How it is organized and how all the parts relate to one another. In short, UX designers focus on how web user interface works. If it works well and feels seamless, the user will have a good experience. But if navigation is complicated or unintuitive, then a lousy user experience is likely.

There is also a certain amount of iterative analysis involved in UX design. UX designers will create wireframe rendering of their interface interactions and get user feedback. They will integrate this into their designs. It is important for UX designers to have a holistic understanding of how users prefer to interact with their applications.

UX designers are concerned with an application’s user interface, and therefore people get confused about the difference between the two. Whereas UI designers are tasked with deciding how the user interface will look, UX designers oversee determining how the user interface operates.

UI design is extremely subjective and therefore difficult to audit. However, UX is quantitative and qualitative and can be audited, using deep scanning the frontend HTML and CSS coding and plugins which have been used by websites.