The Difference between UI and UX designers finally explained

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The Difference between UI and UX designers
finally explained
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Are you tired of being explained the difference
between UI and UX? Are you fed up of trying to
understand where to use UI design and where to
use UX design? Are you scratching your head for
the answer to the question why UI and UX cannot
be used interchangeably?
Well, here is a revelation - You are not the only
one who is confused. Almost every person who is
concerned with the field of web development faced
this confusion at some point of time in his or
her life and many are still battling to
understand the difference.
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What are UI and UX designs?
You may have heard several explanations regarding
the difference between the 2 terms and yet, you
are here. This only means that you are still
confused. We will put it in simple words for you
? If the website was a pizza delivered to your
room, what you see when you open the pizza box -
the pizza topping with chopped vegetables,
sausages, salami, etc. and mozzarella cheese
bubbling over it. You also smell the aroma and
that makes your mouth water. This is the UI -
User Interface.
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? Now, you pick up a slice of the pizza and take
a bite of it. The way the pizza feels in your
mouth - the taste of the chilli sauce and the way
the cheese melts in your mouth and that can be
considered as the UX - User Experience.
That was not that difficult to understand, was it?
Once the difference between UI and UX has been
clarified, the key is to understand its
importance in web designing. User experience
design and user interface design both have unique
yet interconnected roles to play in the success
of a website.
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What roles do UI and UX designs play in a website?
To understand the roles of each, let us take an
example of a coffee shop
The coffee aroma that you are greeted with when
you enter a coffee shop and the ambience is the
UI and the varieties of coffee available the
quality offered is the UX.
Now consider 3 coffee shops located on the same
street.
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1. The first one serves great coffee but has a
   shabby outlook and an unimpressive seating
   arrangement.
2. The second one has amazing interiors with a
   comfortable seating arrangement for the customers
   but the coffee offered is of poor quality.
3. The third type has a good space for the customers
   to sit and talk while sipping their coffee and
   the coffee served is of great quality and taste.

Out of the 3 coffee shops, which shop would have
the highest number of customers? Obviously, the
third coffee shop. The same applies to website
design and development.
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A good UI attracts the user to the website and
guides him or her to navigate around and look for
things he or she needs and a good UX has quality
results to offer the user in response to the
actions the user performs through the UI.
In short, the UI is how the website appears to
the user and UX is how the user gets to access
the website database and server.
In a nutshell, if the website was to be
considered as a movie, the acting of all the
characters, direction and set design is the UI
that makes the movie look impressive and the
screenplay, the dialogues and the storyline are
the UX that makes the movie interesting and worth
watching.  
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When to choose whom?
We have observed that the UI vs UX design
difference is sometimes not clearly understood by
business owners and they may spend their
resources and time on getting the wrong services
due to this.
To get a website to accomplish the desired
mission, choosing the right one out of UI
designer, UX designer, and a UI/UX designer is a
must.
To ensure this, the tasks of a UI designer and a
UX designer have to be clearly defined in the
process of web design and development. We have
done this for you so that you would know when to
hire whom
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Tasks of a UI designer
Interface design and framework - The appearance,
touch and feel of the website is completely under
the purview of the UI designer and is responsible
for designing the frontend framework of the
website. This includes the font style and size,
the buttons and their shapes, the layout, and the
colour scheme of everything that would be visible
to the user.
Website graphics and animation - Keeping in mind
the upcoming UI trends, the website needs to have
various graphics, images, and animation that make
the website impressive.
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The UI designer decides how the button changes
colour or pops-up when it is clicked on and how a
drop-down menu is displayed when the mouse cursor
hovers upon it. All these minor features make the
website navigable.
Website responsiveness - The website should
present an impressive and an interactive layout
on every device it is accessed from. This is
ensured by the UI designer. The frontend is
designed to be compatible with all devices as
well as browsers.
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Tasks of a UX designer
Website objective and requirement - What do you
want to accomplish through the website? What
information and features do you want to offer the
user? Things like these come under the purview of
the UX designer. The UX designer is responsible
for managing the content that is supposed to be
delivered to the user and how it is delivered.
Interaction design - Everything that happens
after the user interacts with the website,
including the communication with the website
server, accepting user inputs and giving the
required responses is managed by the UX web
design.
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Database management - The UX designer has to
design a database that is capable of accepting
and storing the data entered by the users, as
well as offering relevant data that the user is
looking for and also write a code to fetch the
data according to the requirement.
With this, one can now easily differentiate
between the job roles of a UI and a UX designer
and decide when to pick whom.
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A UI/UX designer?
Through this whole discussion, it is obvious that
UI and UX designing is interlinked with each
other. Therefore, one may think why not hire a
designer who is well-versed with both. The
profession of becoming a UI/UX designer has been
on the rise as well.
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To be clear, a UI/UX designer is a jack of all
trades and a master of none. Each UI/UX designer
has the detailed knowledge of a few frameworks of
frontend and backend and a general idea for the
rest.
It would be a good idea to hire a UI/UX designer
when you already have a website but want to
optimise and organise it in a better way.
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Summing up
Once you have gained a clear idea of the
difference between UI and UX, it is easy to
determine whether to hire a UI designer, a UX
designer, the pair of both, or a UI/UX designer.
Once you are through with this decision, the web
design and development process would progress
smoothly and efficiently.
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