UX design is the whole process of creating digital products, from research to how software feels. UI design is the visual and interactive part of that. Product design can mean digital apps or physical things like chairs.
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What exactly are the differences between UX, UI, and product design? Well, this comment section seems to have the answers. It's filled with people arguing with each other about the differences between UX and UI designer. And that's exactly how you know you've officially become a UI/UX/UI/UX product designer. For the sake of helping you understand the chaos, I'm gonna do my best to explain. UX designer, AKA user experience design, is the process of designing software, websites, and other digital products. And UI Product design, AKA user interface design, is a process of designing user interfaces, which you'll find on software websites and other digital products. Now, I know what you might be thinking. I'm thinking it too. Isn't it kind of the same thing? Yeah, it is. And before the UI/UX police cancels me and starts to rage comment that these aren't the same thing, just hear me out till the end of the video. Conceptually, user interface design is technically a subset of UX design. UX design includes more than just designing the interface. You might be doing user research, analysis, and other things that, yes, influence how the software should look and function overall.
But what about product design?
What does that mean? Well, you're gonna love this. Product design is is a process of designing digital products like mobile apps and other software. Not to be confused with product design, which is a process of designing physical products like chairs, tables, and other items.
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I get it, you're mad. I'm mad too. Whoever came up with these terms need to be thrown in jail immediately. In the professional world, you might find jobs where UX designers are more focused on user research instead of designing user interfaces. And you also might find UI designers that are more focused on designing the way the software looks, like spacing, buttons, and other interactive elements. And you'll probably find that most tech companies a title product designer who act as design generalists but basically do the same thing. So UX equals more user research, UI equals more visuals, and product designers do a little bit of everything, right? Well, it depends. Different companies often post the same exact job title and description but have their UX designers do completely different things. So in my opinion, it's not really useful to compare job titles and responsibilities. At the end of the day, we're just designing software websites and other digital products. We may have different ways of doing that, but that's essentially what we're doing. Personally, it makes way more sense for all of us to be called software designers. I mean, we work closely together with software developers anyway. We're two sides of the same coin. We create software. Like this video if you agree and you want to join this new cult. So how does one become a UI/UX product software designer? Maybe even work at Apple or Instagram? Well, you're going to need an awesome portfolio website. But what exactly should your portfolio look like? What projects should you even be working on? Well, this video gives you 7 awesome examples of designers who actually work at Apple, Instagram, and other top tech companies. So you'll want to watch that next.
