Brief description:
- UI (User Interface): User Interface
- UE or UX (User Experience): User Experience. Usually foreign and domestic foreign companies are called UX, and domestic companies are called UE.
- IxD (Interaction design): Interaction design. Different from industrial design, an "X" is added
- UID (User Interface Design): User interface design, which is rarely used now
- UED (User-Experience Design): User Experience Design
- UCD (User-Centered Design): User-Centered Design
Detailed explanation:
UI: User Interface User
interface is actually a relatively broad concept, referring to the interface in the process of human-machine interaction. Taking a car as an example, steering wheel, instrument panel, gear shifter, etc. are all user interfaces.
Now generally the graphical user interface (GUI: Graphic User Interface) displayed on the screen is simply referred to as UI.
It may be that the concept of UI is difficult to be understood by ordinary people, so the UI designer is now generally referred to as a GUI designer. That is, a graphical interface designer.
It is mainly responsible for the color matching of the graphic icons of the product or the website. In short, it is responsible for the style and temperament of the website.
UE or UX: User Experience User
experience refers to the personal subjective feelings of users in the process of using the product. Pay attention to the overall feeling of users before, during and after use, including behaviors, emotions, achievements and other aspects. User experience is the whole feeling, so it's not just from the user interface, that's just part of it.
In layman's terms, this is an overall user experience, including the influence of the brand and the user's personal experience. In short, it is to make the user feel comfortable.
IxD: Interaction design Interaction design
Interaction refers to any process of machine interaction. Interaction design uses effective interaction methods to make the entire process usable and easy to use by understanding human psychology, goals and expectations.
The main object of interaction design is the human-machine interface (UI), but it is not limited to the graphical interface (GUI). In order to achieve their goals, interaction designers need to focus on psychological, cultural, ergonomic and many other aspects.
To put it bluntly, it is how to make the website understandable and easy to use.
UID: User Interface Design User Interface Design
(UID) is not just about making "beautiful interfaces", so interaction design is inevitably involved. So broadly speaking, interface design includes interaction design. But now this concept is rarely mentioned.
UED: User Experience Design User experience design
is a personal subjective experience, but the common experience can be improved through good design. User experience design aims to enhance the user experience of using a product.
In Internet companies, visual interface design, interaction design and front-end design are generally classified as user experience design.
But in fact, user experience design runs through the entire product design process, and it is inevitably involved, just whether it is important or not.
A good user experience designer actually needs a deep understanding of interface, interaction and implementation technology.
The domestic UED is handed over by the Ali Department. There are many other companies that are not called UED, but CDC, CDU, etc. In short, these are the things they do.
UCD: User Centered Design User-centered design
UCD is a design pattern, thinking. Emphasize that in the process of product design, design from the user's point of view, and the user is the priority.
Product design has a BTU three-circle diagram (Business, Technique, User), that is, a good product should take into account commercial profitability, technical implementation and user needs.
Whether B, T or U is the priority to enter product design, good products can be designed. UCD just emphasizes user first.
Note: Some of the content inside is taken from the Internet.
To sum up:
Now the user experience departments in domestic Internet companies are called UED, CDC, UEDC, etc. This is the name of a department, and it is based on the design idea of UCD (user-centered) as the basic theoretical guidance. The specific job positions are divided into For user research, interaction design, visual design (including UI), and sometimes front-end development.
The previous UI refers to the user interface, including interaction design, but the current UI usually refers to the visual design, which is actually a GUI (graphical user interface) in the formal sense.
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