UI & UX — Still a better love story than twilight!

The Triangle

Nothing is more binding than a heartbreaking love-story with a happy ending but this one is snubbed often as the protagonists are not in love with each other. So why is this a love-story? Because it is not the usual Romeo and Juliet thingy, there is a third entity involved. The User.

So it is like this, UI and UX both love the User and all 3 of them are immortal, so none can die and hence this is another unending saga. Exactly like who is better between Messi and Ronaldo. I think its Ronaldo though.

Okay, So UI is this crazy young lover who lives in a fantasy land. It has dreams and a lot of hope. It is pretty and sometimes cute. User will be in the awe of it, so the love at first sight cliché is normal in this context.
On the contrary, UX is more mature, calm and understanding. UX was born to feel for the User and understand what it needs and provides it. What we must grasp is that UX also loves the User and this love is also one of its kind.
The point here is that they both are in love with the user equally. There ways may be dissimilar but the intensity is truly alike.

The Problem

User is a moody b#8*h. Sometimes User craves for the madness of UI and sometimes it warrants the kindness of UX. It wants them both and that’s creating all the fuss.

Understanding the difference between UI and UX is pretty easy. UI is what the interface is and UX is why this interface is. They are unlike individuals from distant places but they met each other and befriended.

The internet say and I quote, “A UI without UX is like a painter slapping paint onto canvas without thought; while UX without UI is like the frame of a sculpture with no paper Mache on it. A great product experience starts with UX followed by UI. Both are essential for the product’s success.”

UX as I said earlier is understanding it enhances user satisfaction and loyalty by refining the utility, ease of operation provided in the communication among the customer and the product. Whereas UI is its compliment, the look and feel, the presentation and interactivity of a product.

Peace lies in Agreement

There always can’t be a rainbow after it rains, isn’t it. The problem is UI doesn’t even know that it is in a hate and hate relationship between itself and UX all because of you-know-who. Not Lord Voldermort but yes the villain in this case, the user. UX on the other hand is well aware but we do know about the ego, right?
So UI fights with UX for its judgement is clouded by the love of its life, which is normal. And, UX is fighting because of an overestimated self-respect involved. They can never make peace and User will always be full of joy. It can be casual trolls it rolls when they disagree and it can also be the amazing feeling of balance it revels in when they agree. It comes down to us, what is it that we want to serve them.

Chance of Happy Ending — If one of them was Gay?

Let’s hypothetically believe for a moment that UI realizes that it is gay and it can love UX and ignore User, or the other way around. So one of them falls for another and ignores the User. What will user do? The answer is simple, put both of them in the friend-zone. One for surety of it and another for the doubt and yet another for keeping itself out of the mess.
The Climax — Let it be
UX and UI are two vastly different personality and one single person cannot support them both (lets ignore way to smaller number of exceptions here who like Messi and Ronaldo equally).

Moral of the story
If someone gets the task to make truce between them has been assigned a task that is universally impossible. A good UI Designer is always taking into consideration the UX of what they’re designing. That doesn’t mean they should, or are even qualified to, take on all the responsibilities that come with being a UX Designer.

Which banner has to be made and where do we put it on our website are two different jobs — are you saying it is assigned to one person at your company? I am fine with it though.