Today we are going to look at the UX and UI industry in a broad scale. UX stands for User Experience, and UI stands for User Interface. UX is all about the experience the user has while using the product, and UI is all about the design and what elements make up the interface (what the user sees when using the product).
UX is all about people. We learnt about the process of design, and how important it is to research and plan before starting the solution or final design. Asking questions like who is this for, or when will this be used, are very helpful in the early stages of designing a product. When designing for user experience, we should keep in mind that we are designing for humans, not users. Users are humans after all, so all of our designs should be made to be human centred.
We then watched a video on user experience of everyday things, specifically, doors. We have all had embarrassing moments where we try to pull a door open when it’s a push, and we go to push the door, and it turns out its a pull. Nothing seems to work. The Norman door is the name that it is given to a door that is confusing to use. It looks like a push when its a pull, and vice versa. It was invented by Don Norman, who had the idea because he was getting so frustrated at these types of doors.
Here is a door that has lots of pull signs on it.
Here are the main steps when it comes to UX.
We then looked at the importance of making our designs inclusive and accessible to everyone. Areas that this include are; visual, auditory, verbal, motor, and cognitive. Here are some examples of each: