A Complete Overview of UI/UX

What is UI/UX?

Although they frequently appear interchangeably, two words have completely different meanings.

Let’s examine UI and UX individually.

UX (User Experience)

User experience design is a method of designing products that puts the user first. It is the process of designing products that offer users rich, relevant experiences. This involves aspects of branding, design, usability, and function as well as the design of the complete process of acquiring and integrating the product.

In essence, UX refers to anything that can be experienced, including a website, an app, a dishwasher , and trips to the grocery store. The term “user experience” describes how a user interacts with a good or service. Therefore, user experience design takes into account all the various components that influence this experience.

• The process of creating and enhancing how well a user interacts with all areas of a business is known as user experience design.
• Although user experience design is mostly employed and defined by the digital sectors, it is theoretically a non-digital (cognitive science) profession.
• The total experience is the main focus of UX design, not the visuals.

The process of developing functional and usable products, whether digital or physical, is known as user experience design (UX). The ideal traits are further broken down in Peter Morville’s UX honeycomb:

• Usable: A product must be straightforward, user-friendly, and well-known.
• Useful: A product must meet a need. There is no real reason for users to use a product if it doesn’t fill a perceived need in their lives.
• Desirable: The product’s visual appeal needs to be alluring and arouse positive feelings.
• Findable: A user should be able to easily locate a solution if they encounter a problem with a product.
• Accessible: The goods or service must be available to everyone, including people with disabilities.
• Credible: The business and its products must be trustworthy.

UI (User Interface)

The point of interaction and communication between humans and computers in a device is the user interface (UI). This can include desktop visuals, keyboards, mice, and display screens. Additionally, it refers to how a user interacts with a website or application.

• Designing user interfaces is exclusively a digital activity. It takes into account all of a product interface’s visual, interactive components, such as buttons, icons, spacing, typography, color schemes, and responsive design.
• Visually guiding a user through a product’s interface is the aim of user interface design. The key is to design an intuitive user experience that doesn’t make them think too much!
• UI design ensures that the design is consistent, coherent, and aesthetically pleasing by transferring the brand’s strengths and visual assets to a product’s interface.

Types of User Interface (UI):

The various types of user interfaces include:

1. Graphical User Interface (GUI)
2. Command Line Interface (CUI)

GUI (Graphical User Interface):

A system of visual, interactive components for computer software is known as a GUI (graphical user interface). A GUI presents information-conveying and action-representative objects for the user to interact with. When the user interacts with the objects, they change their color, size, or visibility.

In 1981, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, and a group of other researchers at Xerox PARC created the first version of the GUI. Later, on January 19, 1983, Apple released the Lisa computer, which featured a GUI.

CLI (Command Line Interface):

A command-line interface (CLI) is a text-based user interface (UI) that is used to run programs, manage computer files, and interact with the computer. Other names for command-line interfaces include character user interfaces, command-line user interfaces, and console user interfaces. Commands typed into CLIs using the keyboard are accepted as input, and the computer will execute any commands entered at the command prompt.