What is the Difference Between a UI/UX Designer and a Product Designer?
When we hear terms like UI/UX Design or Product Design, the only thing we’re sure about is designing what a user/customer sees and interacts with whatever you’re offering. However, these two are really broad terms from business perspective.
User Interface Design
UI — User Interface Design is specifically about designing the screens of your mobile app, website, dashboard, whatsoever. This includes higher end graphics and graphically fascinating creatives. In short, UI is all what we see on a particular screen including all those images, icons, fonts, animations, effects, etc.
You can make a UI better by choosing better illustrations, pixel perfect images, appealing fonts and beautiful color palettes.
User Experience Design
Now here comes the tricky part of what the user will experience when he/she lands onto your product/page/platform. Let’s say you’re making a mobile app, What will be the flow of user throughout the app is what we call user experience. For example, The user will be prompted to register first and then continue with the app or the user will use the app first and will be prompted to register only when he’s about to purchase the product, are two different user experiences.
UX has so much amount of documentation and brainstorming and UI is for sure another aspect which gives the UX that face which user likes.
This process includes many subsections like User Flow, Wireframing, User Interface, Prototyping, etc.
Is UX better than UI?
You must have got this question if you want to explore opportunities in design industry and are not sure which side to go for better career opportunities considering salary prospect as well.
I’ve heard many people saying that UX is better than UI as it’s a high paying job. But, To be honest, it depends on the context. If you’re a good UI designer, you can earn far more than a UX designer and can get many career opportunities as well. On the other hand, UX is also an enjoyable and creative job.
So, it all depends on your interest. I would suggest you to try both and dig deeper into them to identify what really suits you.
Product Design
Product Design is a really booming term these days, especially in the era of numerous startups all around. Explaining the term in one line, Product Design is more or less designing UI/UX for the product considering the Business Perspective in mind. That means, we have so many business constraints from different business perspectives such as sales, tech, and operations that makes design to be user centric and business centric at the same time.
It’s a tough job but quite enjoyable. You have to keep in mind the business you’re running or the product you’re putting forward as a whole, not just what looks good and what should be included in the app. If a beautiful screen is not helping the product and is creating friction in user journey, you remove it anyways. It includes A/B testing and tech sprints which lets you identify the loopholes in the product and mitigate them with design thinking.
I hope this article helped you get an overview of all these confusing design terms. Do share the article with relatable audience and follow for more such content.
