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All you want to know about UX/UI designers.

Have you ever imagined how do they build such beautiful web-pages and so much user friendly websites, or you yourself have dreamt of developing one of your own? Then you must be aware of UX/UI designing and learning about its applications would give you a complete idea of what you want to build and how would it look like in the real world.

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UX Design refers to the term User Experience Design, while UI Design stands for User Interface Design. Both elements are crucial to a product and work closely together. But despite their professional relationship, the roles themselves are quite different, referring to very different parts of the process and the design discipline. Both of them have a plain goal of making the user interaction simpler and efficient.

The User Experience Design or UX Design is more or less non-technical, as it involves content-development, prototyping, analysis and iteration, basically the interaction with the users fall under this category. It involves a lot of research and creativity.

Whereas User Interface Design or UI Design is more technical, it involves development of the interface, involves coding and developing the prototype designed by UX like including text fields, check-boxes etc. It depends on UX designs (the prototypes developed by it).

You can think of it as UX helps in smoothening the usability while UI builds an impressive display.

This article is of great help to begin with: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/whats-the-difference-between-ux-and-ui-design-2ca8d107de14

Now don’t get disheartened seeing the vast area(as 210 different job titles, like Visual Designer, Usability Researcher , Interaction Designer , Web Developer etc. all comes in the UX category) this UX/UI designing covers, even if you would master one area and have acceptable skills in other areas it would be perfectly fine.


For UI Developers:
The recruiters generally look for experienced User Interface Designer with focus on optimal efficiency, simplicity, and functionality.

Thus a good UI Designer must be:

  • Skilled in designing applications, user interfaces (UI), websites, online ads, and e-newsletters.
  • Adept at all phases of project lifecycle, including requirements gathering and user analysis to information architecture (IA), testing, graphic user interface (GUI) design, and implementation.
  • Solid knowledge of human-computer interaction (HCI), navigation, and usability for UI design.
  • Strong design and production skills with emphasis on interactive elements.
  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and time-management skills.

And these are for the inspiration you may need (Its of great help for beginners) :
·         onepagelove.com One Page website designs for your inspiration.
·         awwwards.com Awards website that promotes design talent.
·         dribbble.com A community of designers sharing their work.
·         pttrns.com A collection of mobile design patterns.
·         uimovement.com The best UI design inspiration, every day.



For UX developers:

Have a look here, the wanna be UX developers:



Now, since you have got an Idea of what is the basic meaning of UX/UI designing, here are the top sources how to learn this skill (and all of them are free):

Checkout the tools listed in this article (you can always have trials for freeJ ): https://uxplanet.org/how-to-get-started-in-ux-ui-design-ae097cc0d1c
Here are some courses, you can have a look at them and find which one suits you best:




If you are an experienced UI/UX designer and wanna apply yourself to a job, these articles may be very helpful : https://gxacademy.com/companies-looking-ux-hires/  (for UX designers) https://www.linkedin.com/title/user-interface-designer  (for UI designers ).

Believe me a good developer is being paid really good.

And it’s the best job in the world because no AI can replace 
your creativity and designing skills.

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