User Interface Design
User Interface Design is the design of the visible and interactive layer of a digital product.
In the UID 07 course, UI is not treated as decoration. It translates User Experience Design, business goals, brand, content, and technical constraints into screens, components, states, and interactions that people can use.
Boundary
UI is not the same as UX.
User Experience Design defines the underlying experience: user needs, flows, tasks, research, and service logic.
User Interface Design makes that experience visible and operable through layout, hierarchy, components, states, feedback, and interaction.
UI is also not only styling. Visual choices matter, but they should support use, meaning, trust, accessibility, and brand expression.
Core Questions
- What can the user do here?
- What is most important on this screen?
- How does the user understand the system state?
- How does the interface express the brand?
- What should be familiar, and what can be distinctive?
- How does the interface support trust?
- What feedback does the interface give after an action?
- What states need to be designed?