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Do you find the terms "user experience" and "user interface" confusing?
"User experience" and "user interface" are related and sound similar, but they mean different things.
Don Norman, the inventor of the term "user experience", said,
"User experience encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company,
its services and its products."
- They're all about optimizing for the people, try to use and understand
what they're given so that they can understand it,

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so that they know what to do when something goes wrong,
so they know how to actually accomplish their goals,
so they feel good about it and the technology does not get in the way.
- UX designers have to create an all-around pleasurable experience
that meets the needs of the users.
This holistic perspective is what makes  it different from user interface or UI.
- User experience design, or UX design, is everywhere,
from how you interact with your smartphone to how your home is designed.
Of course, not all experiences are well designed, and that's why UX design is

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such a rewarding and challenging field to be in.
- The user interface encompasses all the visual elements the user sees,
hears and interacts with, including colors, typography, buttons, icons,
screen animations and more.
These visual elements are key to support tasks and usability.
UI is how a product looks and all its visual  elements, which plays a significant role in UX,
which is the overall product experience.
- What you need to do to get good is to remember those couple of things:

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Always align your buttons well. Always  create hierarchy by larger spacing
between groups and reuse the basic forms
and just a couple of colors initially because that's going to help you
get better understanding of what is really  important in that UI design.
And then you can experiment and you can explore outside of those boundaries.
Let's look at it this way – observe the car dashboard.
What you see, the icons, layout, even the shape and location of the gear shift are all UI.

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The holistic experience of what you  *feel* – "Is it easy to drive?
Is it comfortable and intuitive to use?
Is it easy to understand the information displayed?"
– is the overall UX, and both are essential to design
brilliant and successful solutions and experiences.