{"id":3009,"date":"2019-09-17T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:09:23","slug":"ux-vs-ui-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/ux-vs-ui-video\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between UX design and UI design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/ai4kwdv23w.jsonp\" async><\/script><script src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/assets\/external\/E-v1.js\" async><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_embed wistia_async_ai4kwdv23w videoFoam=true\" style=\"height: 100%; position: relative; width: 100%;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_swatch\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0; transition: opacity 200ms; width: 100%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"filter: blur(5px); height: 100%; object-fit: contain; width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/fast.wistia.com\/embed\/medias\/ai4kwdv23w\/swatch\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s say we&#8217;re building a new five star hotel. The most important designer on that project would be the architect. They&#8217;ll answer the big questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are we building?<\/li>\n<li>Why are we building it?<\/li>\n<li>Who are we building it for?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s it going to look like when it&#8217;s finished?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the high level concepts down to the detailed designs of the bathroom, the architect&#8217;s influence is everywhere. The hotel structure, how it&#8217;s laid out, how the guests flow through it, the proportions of the rooms. It&#8217;s a critical leadership role.<\/p>\n<section id=\"promotion\" class=\"promotion-content-raw inlinepromo inlinepromo_professional-diploma-in-ux-designp-1 my-4\" style=\"\">\n\t<div class=\"w-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-center\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12 promotion-info\">\n                <a class=\"link-content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/courses\/ux-design?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog_panel_pdux&utm_campaign=blog_promo\" style=\"\">\n                    <p>[GET CERTIFIED IN UX]<\/p>\n                    <span>Take our Professional Diploma in UX Design course<\/span>\n                <\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The second most important designer on the project is the interior designer. Now, our five star hotel is going to be a particular type of hotel. It could be a business hotel, a hipster hotel or a hotel for what the tourists. And we&#8217;ll want it to have a particular atmosphere or feeling. And it&#8217;s the responsibility of the interior designer to bring these characteristics to life.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll define the hotel&#8217;s aesthetic; the lighting, the colour schemes, the hard and soft furnishings, the quality of the materials. It&#8217;s the look, it&#8217;s the feel and it&#8217;s the very personality of the hotel. Combine these two types of design and we&#8217;ll have our high quality five star hotel.<\/p>\n<h2>The difference between UX and UI designers<\/h2>\n<p>And in a similar way in the tech industry, you need to combine good UX design and good UI design to create high quality software products:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UX designers are the architects defining the who, the what and the why. Designing the structure and the flow of the product.<\/li>\n<li>UI designers play the interior designer role, defining the looks, the aesthetics, and bringing the product&#8217;s personality to life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both roles are critical, but just like architecture, UX is more fundamental. Hope that helps you understand the difference between UX design and UI design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think architecture and interior design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[287,300,296],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ux-explained","tag-new-to-ux","tag-ui-design","tag-what-is-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uxdesigninstitute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}