UI Design

What is a UI Design ?

User interface design is the design of computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software applications, and websites with the focus on the user's experience and interaction.

There is a always confusion regarding UX and UI design. 

Firstly, I want to say there is a quite difference in UX and UI design i.e.

UX design refers to user experience design, while UI design stands for user interface design. Both of these are crucial to an IT product and need to work closely together. Despite being very integral to each other, the roles themselves are quite different, involving distinct processes.

UI design is all about how the user interacts with an interface. There are the some questions like - how do they get from one screen to another? What visual touch points do they encounter?

This is all decided by the UI designer! they take the UX designer’s blueprint and turn it into something visual and interactive. In terms of day to day work, this involves everything from designing buttons to choosing colours and fonts, to prototyping and carrying out usability testing.

User Interface Hall of Fame/Shame.

What do we mean by this? This topic is really based around the power of specificity of looking at particular examples of good(fame) and bad(shame) designs. And developing a habit of observation, of noticing whether something is really good, bad, easy to use or hard to use, and then developing a set of analytic tools.

To help us understand why something is good or bad, and what makes it good or bad.

“Simple things should be simple to operate and if you need to provide instructions that's a sign of failure.” It's a sign of bad design and there are design principles that can help us avoid failures like this.

A powerful and simple one is visibility.

 Design Principles/Concepts.

There are about 10 like concepts in UI Designing. They are:

• Visibility
• Feedback
• Mapping
• Constraints
• Conceptual Models
• Gulf of Execution
• Gulf of Evaluation
• Properties of short-term and long-term memory
• How people focus on and attend to information
• Mistakes, errors and slip.

UI Designing Tools

If you’re making the move into UI design, you need to be familiar with the tools of the trade. Over time, you’ll discover or get to know which ones are most effective for you—but to get started, there is a list of some of the most popular in the industry that are:

• InVision
• Zeplin
• Adobe XD
• Balsamiq
• Sketch
• Figma
• Flinto ,etc.

Skills Required for UI Designer.

• Communication (visual and non-visual)
• Agile and lean software development skills
• User advocacy
• Persuasion

The thing that helped me most was learning visual design principles (shape, color, typography) alongside front-end development (basic HTML, CSS, and eventually JavaScript). This way you don't fall to just one side (a photoshop wiz or a front-end hacker). The important part is to be patient, it takes time to be really, really good.

Some tips:

- Think of a UI you want to build and build it. Be reasonable, of course (don't think you're going to build Facebook on day one), but always have a "thing" you're working on.

- Read, read, read. Don't just focus on design/development stuff either. You'll be amazed at how reading an article on architecture will give you insight on a UI problem.

 -  Ignore the noise. It's hard to look at gorgeous UI by others and not be deterred. This doesn't matter. Just stay focused.

“There are Three responses to a piece of Design – Yes, No, and Wow !
Wow is the one to the aim for. “

 

UI Designer Salary

The average salary for a User Interface Designer is $81,267 per year in the United States. Salary estimates are based on 881 salaries submitted anonymously to Indeed by User Interface Designer employees, users, and collected from past and present job advertisements on Indeed in the past 36 months.