Designing a website, designing a user experience, designing a user interface… The distinction is not always evident. These titles and specialties frequently overlap, adding to the confusion. In this post, we’ll discuss the broad distinctions and similarities, as well as what each function requires and whether or not it’s a good fit for you.
What is web design?
Web design is the process of producing static designs, such as landing pages and marketing websites, that are designed to be rendered and viewed in a web browser. It is frequently a revision process in which numerous variants of a design are generated before agreeing on the final design.
What are a web designer’s responsibilities?
A web designer’s primary responsibility is to create landing pages and marketing websites for businesses and services. They frequently work on everything that comes ‘before the signup or login page’ of a digital product. Web designers concentrate on the layout of material and information on pages such as sales pages, squeeze pages, about pages, contact pages, and blogs. They are also in charge of selecting and assembling graphics, imagery, and typography in accordance with best practices for visual design and web browsers. Web designers may also be able to code their designs into HTML and CSS, or they may use no-code solutions to build instructional websites, small business websites, or product marketing content. Web designers should also be familiar with responsive and adaptable design, which describes how web browsers should render page designs based on the size of the window and the device on which they are being viewed.
Web designer deliverables
- Sitemaps
- Inventory of content
- Sketches
- Mockups of low quality
- Mockups with high fidelity
What is UX (User Experience) design?
UX design requires social, analytical, and storytelling abilities. You must be able to talk to people and ask them about their problems and experiences, and then figure out the best methods to understand and use that knowledge to come up with possible scenarios in which your user would engage with or use your product. It is the process of developing ideas and testing hypotheses based on user feedback and input. It is an iterative process in which feedback is applied to incremental modifications and improvements over time.
What are the responsibilities of a UX designer?
A User Experience designer is, above all, a User Advocate. The User Experience designer’s role is to determine the best way for the user to interact with the product, accomplish activities, and achieve their desired outcome in the simplest and most pleasant manner possible. They must also collaborate in groups to suit the needs of the stakeholders. While they may be asked to bend to meet business or marketing objectives, they are careful not to lose sight of the core relationship with their users and their empowerment.
User Experience Designer Deliverables
- Surveys and user interviews
- Personas
- Journey maps for users
- User Case Studies
- Reports on analytics
- Sketches
- Prototypes and wireframes
What is User Interface (UI) Design?
UI design is a visual and behavioral discipline that deals with how symbols in computer interfaces are transferred to dynamic visual components. Color, typography, and visual hierarchy are all aspects of UI design, as are how specific elements and their various states and components come together in an interface, as well as how those elements are linked and accessed by the user
What are the responsibilities of a UI designer?
A User Interface designer is in charge of establishing the overall appearance and feel of the presentation or product. They decide on the aesthetics and components that a user will view, whether it’s an app, a game, or a website. A user interface designer determines how a user will travel from point A to point B using various visual touch points such as touching a button or swiping through images, as well as how those visuals should respond.
The UI designer takes the information provided by the UX experience designer and molds it into aesthetically beautiful interface elements, flows, and states based on best visual design practices, which are then delivered in the form of design mockups, prototypes, or final product-ready screens.
User Interface Designer Deliverables
- Prototypes
- High-quality mockups
- System Design
- User Interface Kits
