Difference between UI and UX design

UI/UX:  UX Design --User Experience Design, while UI Design stands for User Interface Design.

Both elements are crucial to a product and work closely together. But despite their professional relationship, the roles themselves are quite different, referring to very different parts of the process and the design discipline. Where UX Design is a more analytical and technical field, UI Design is closer to what we refer to as graphic design, though the responsibilities are somewhat more complex.

What is UI design?

User interface design requires a good understanding of user needs. There are several phases and processes in the user interface design, some of which are more demanded upon than others, depending on the project.

1)      Functionality requirements gathering

2)      User and task analysis

3)       Information Architecture  

4)      Prototyping

5)      Usability inspection

6)      Usability testing

7)      GUI design

8)      Software maintenance

What is UX design?

User experience design (UX, UXD, UED or XD) is the process of enhancing user satisfaction with a product by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction with the product. User experience design encompasses traditional human–computer interaction (HCI) design, and extends it by addressing all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users.

User experience design includes elements of interaction design, visual design, information architecture, user research.

1)      Visual design

2)      Information architecture     

3)      Structuring, organization ,  labeling

4)      Finding and managing

5)      Interaction design

6)      Usability

7)      Usability testing

8)      Accessibility

9)      Human – Computer  interaction

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