Term: User Experience (UX)

User Experience (UX)

Designing an experience includes not only making the software easy to use but also designing the other experiences related to the product, for example, the marketing campaign, the packaging and after-sales support. Most importantly, UX design is concerned with delivering solutions that address pain points and needs. After all, no one will use a product that serves no purpose.

“User Experience Design” is often used interchangeably with terms such as “User Interface Design” and “Usability.” However, while usability and user interface (UI) design are important aspects of UX design, they are subsets of it.

As a UX designer, you should consider the Why, What and How of product use.

  • The Why involves the users’ motivations for adopting a product, whether they relate to a task they wish to perform with it or to values and views that users associate with the ownership and use of the product.
  • The What addresses the things people can do with a product—its functionality.
  • Finally, the How relates to the design of functionality in an accessible and aesthetically pleasant way.

Source: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/ux-design