UI, UX: A Designer’s Guide to The Tech Industry

Designer in a tech industry is rather a non - comprehensible work-role, most of the people around the world don’t have any idea about what exactly a designer does day to day. A designer is an umbrella term under which many responsibilities are rested. Ranging from industrial designing to print to the tech industry, a designer’s role is as important as anyone else. With the massive explosion in technical industry and shift of focus of companies towards creating stunning interfaces has led to defining of designer role much better. Enterprises and Companies hiring web designing company to leverage high-end web designing services.

Converging our focus onto the designer’s role in tech industry a designer’s role can be encompassed to two titles – UX or UI designers. Let’s try to understand each role.

1. UX DESIGNERS (USER EXPERIENCE DESIGNER)

The role of a UX designer primarily focuses on the feel of the product. A User Experience designer’s responsibility is to check the products logical flow from one step to another, for which he/she might by personally check the product behavior by conducting user-test and identifying verbal and non-verbal loopholes. A UX designer thus iterates and refine to cater best user experience for their user.

2. UI DESIGNER (USER INTERFACE DESIGNER)

A User Interface Designer is the one responsible for how a product is laid in front of a user. They are responsible for the way a product is laid out. They majorly work on designing pages of the product and define a systematic way to by which a product interacts with its users. In meantime, they give visuals to the path that a UX designer has laid out in the backend of the product. They create a cohesive style guide of a product and make sure the design is equally and consistently spread out throughout a product. A common design language is applied to the product.

The major difference that separates the role of a UI Designer from that of UX Designer is that if one is responsible for the frontend and other for backend experience of a product that it renders to a user.

3. GRAPHIC DESIGNER (VISUAL DESIGNER)

All the wonderful things happen on this desk, it is the first thing that crosses anyone’s mind when asked of a designer. They are the ones that give you amazingly designed icons, controls and visual elements and typography of a product. They are not concerned to linking screens to each other or who a user interacts with the product. Graphic design services include designing of high-quality graphics, icons and other marketing materials for the product, they create visual designs for a product from start to finish for desktops, web and mobile phones etc. they are responsible to create a visual brand value of any enterprise that reflects in a product.

4. INTERACTION DESIGNER (MOTION DESIGNER)

They are the guys responsible to bring life to boring things in a product, for an instance the when you refresh the page in Gmail and a bouncing ball appears that is what a motion design does. They are responsible for the reaction behavior of a product on touching or requesting a certain function. They decide the transition effects of an application, animation on the buttons, menu – all in all, they give away the clues in a direction that makes user interaction with the product much easier.

5. FRONT-END DEVELOPER (UI DEVELOPER)

One of the most important parts of a product development is Front-end development and that is the functional implementation of a product. A UI developer is someone that responsibly handles the task of translating the static mockup into a well-functioning and interactive experience. They also code the visual interaction and motion and animation in product for seamless integration and functioning.

6. PRODUCT DESIGNER

A product designers role is some-what a blend of all the above-mentioned roles. They are responsible from start to finish that is helpful in identifying the major setbacks and problems of a product, set benchmarks and then design product, test and then make important improvements. They might do some front-end coding, user research, and design interfaces etc.

WRAPPING UP

Hiring a web designer is very much of a common process in the tech world and especially by the startups. Whilst what most of the people and miss out is a detailed intel on what exactly is their designing requirements. If you are looking for icon designing you need a to hire a Graphic designer or while looking for someone who can do your UI optimization, A/B tested landing sites and maybe some front-end development you need a Product designer.

The above discussion will help you define your needs much better and then hiring people accordingly as per your needs. Designing is a broad spectrum, and, in a nutshell, we have tried to give you a just that will specify your needs much better.

The differences between the job roles under the hood of UI and UX designing is very much blurry, most of the web designing companies hire some single personnel to meet all their requirements or it is seen that a Graphic designer might even be a motion designer for them or any other combination.