UI design is more concerned with the surface and overall feel of a design. UI design is a craft where you the designer build an essential part of the user experience. UX design covers the entire spectrum of the user experience. One analogy is to picture UX design as a car with UI design as the driving console.

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Often called UI, user interface design is the design of screens that connect a user to machines and software and allow the user to manipulate them. UI focuses on maximizing usability and developing a user experience that is intuitive for humans. The goal of user interface design is to keep interactions between the interface and the user as simple and efficient as possible while still supporting enough capability for users to accomplish their goals. Graphic design plays a key role in creating an interface that affords its uses and functions. Because of this, the interface design process requires a balance between technical functionality and visual elements so the system not only operate properly, but also makes sense to the user.

User Interface Design

"User experience design (UXD, UED, or XD) is the process of supporting user behavior[1] through usability, usefulness, and desirability provided in the interaction with a product. User experience design encompasses traditional human–computer interaction (HCI) design and extends it by addressing all aspects of a product or service as perceived by users. Experience design (XD) is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, omnichannel journeys, and environments with a focus placed on the quality of the user experience and culturally relevant solutions. Experience design is not driven by a single design discipline. Instead, it requires a cross-discipline perspective that considers multiple aspects of the brand/ business/ environment/ experience from product, packaging, and retail environment to the clothing and attitude of employees."

Elements of "user experience design" include:
- Research
- Visual Design
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Human-computer Interaction

User Experience (UX) Design

UI vs UX design

UI Design Trends by Year
- Types of Trends
- 2020
- 2021

UI Design Trends

- UI Design Methods
- UI Design Tools
- UI Design Elements
- Types of Interfaces

UI Design Methods and Tools

Interdisciplinary use of behavioral science and psychology to inform user interface design. 

- Patterns of Cognition and Behavior related to Interface Design
- Interface Design for Older Adults

Cognitive and Behavioral Science in the Context of UI Design

- Nielsen Norman Group
- Smashing Magazine

User Experience Design Research

- Nielsen Norman Group
- Interaction Design Foundation
- Medium
- Smashing Magazine

User Experience Design References

- Accessible
- Credible
- Desirable
- Findable
- Useful
- Usable
- Valuable

The 7 Factors that Influence User Experience

UX writing is the practice of writing content for users that appears within a product or software. UX writing helps users learn how to interact with different platforms. It is important for UX writers to produce clear and concise interface text for platforms and products.

User Experience Writing

Information architecture (IA) is the structure of an information environment. Both physical and digital environments have IA.

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