#what is a ui ux designer

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[paapi]

pinterest went ahead and chose the most ugly font available for their UI redesign

[how2forgive]

if you don't mind me asking what did you study in uni?

i studied english literature! with a minor in book & media studies :~)

[lunasilvis]

Joined the UX Reddit community and already engaged in discussions about conversation rate formulas and quarrels about off-putting weird as shit details in Spotify's interface + shadows on buttons lol.

I've officially gone so nerdy :-) this is 30 so far

[kaylor]

as a user of websites i do absolutely respect really good front end developers because there is nothing worse than a poorly designed website or unpleasant interface like that shit will send me into a blind rage like i literally chose which universities to apply to based on how intuitive their website navigation was. however. as an engineer i straight up refuse to touch any html/css for the rest of my life. i don't have a visually creative bone in my body. to the point where if someone asked me to make a diagram or powerpoint i would probably quit on the spot. let me work on your behind the scenes data processing and leave me the hell alone.

[roseband]

ppl complaining about the new legally blonde prequel coming out didn't seem to get the movie cause elle WAS interesting and smart from the get go????

"i have a 4.0...." "but in fashion merchandising"

girlie's got a business related degree from the beginning, even if it's a "frivolous" thing

i think u rlly missed the main idea?

[crotovane]

i love how im so vigorously planning out what games i'm going to play next now that i'm finished yakuza 5 along with what movies i'm going to watch this year and what i'm going to draw fanart of as if i don't need A Job and To Move Out first

[shoyslayer]

not only the fact that making the user interface resemble twitter more is a terrible idea because twitter is a dying website with an actively hostile user experience

why would you move the post button down to the bottom left. why would you make the button to make posts one of the hardest things to reach....... on the blogging website. the website you make posts in.

[cupcakesstudios]

do i like the new ui? not sure yet

[i4technolab]

Whether you're creating a website or an app, every icon in your interface should have a function. Icons are present to conserve screen space. They're also there to help your users. Icons, when used effectively, may assist you in guiding people naturally through a process without depending on excessive copy. When done incorrectly, they can be confusing to your consumers, leading them down the wrong routes and ruining their experience with your product.

[el-ffej]

My childhood ideal of this:

every girl wants to get in a vehicle and flip 3-6 switches overhead in the process of turning it on

[ux-uidesigner]

https://digitalanivipracticeb.com/what-is-figma-used-for-2024/

Figma is a multifaceted design application used mostly in UI/UX design, prototyping, and building design systems. Mainly, it is web-based which allows designers to carry out their design projects in real time, provide feedback, and collaborate in the process. From these lines, you can understand 

#is figma difficult to learn

[liveblack]

Benefits of UX design | Liveblack

For any company, organization, or business, the main goal is to satisfy customers’ needs by providing an effective way to stay connected. Website is one of the most important ways to let customers know about a brand and its products and services. Behind every fantastic and brilliant website, there’s a lot of brainstorming, complications, errors, cooperation and communication, developer and designer’s hard work.

An immense growth of digital products used by large organizations and small businesses to acquire their customer’s attention brings brilliant concepts in web development and UX design. User Experience Design is the backbone of a good website, including all the elements of end-user interaction. The primary purpose of UX is to give customers or users a feel of an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand website. UX satisfies users with ease, preferences, accessibility, and much more.

What is UX Design and why is it important?

UX is User Experience for enhancing users’ overall experience while interacting with any app or website. The UX design process aims to provide users or customers with great satisfaction. In this digital world, every website wants to serve higher satisfaction to its users. It considers UX the most crucial factor in website design because websites with poor UX and below-average user experience impact the brand’s image and sales.

Why is UX important to business?

A well-designed user experience can improve a brand’s image and conversion rate. The positive UX makes complicated tasks easier for users and, on the whole, makes the user’s experience better and more convenient, keeping them loyal to brands. A visually attractive website can seize many advantages for businesses. The best UX creates positive first impressions, making your brand stand out and draw additional revenue.

Why is UX design important? So the answer is UX is for fulfilling users’ needs and giving them a meaningful experience so they trust your brand or product. Good UX defines a customer’s journey for how often they return to your site, purchase, and contribute to the brand’s success. The design of UX focuses on understanding users better to keep them close, comfortable, and coming back every time to the website. The boost in the percentage of website visitors is also an essential factor of UX.

Knowing the critical concept of UX design, let us talk about the benefits it brings to you and your business.

Benefits of UX Design

1 — Increase Customer Engagement -

An excellent UX design gives visitors a reason to explore further on the website for what they are searching for or want to know more about the brand. Experienced users know how to browse a website, but a new visitor or user will get confused, so make sure you have a good UX design so that your audience will be able to handle the situation.

With the engaging and straightforward UX, it will interest people to continue to move forward with your website. This way, you can increase customer engagement and make people aware of your brand or business.

2 — Increase Conversion Rate -

There are a lot more businesses or brands that sell the same products or services as yours. The point is, what makes you different from all the others? You can attract visitors with excellent, easy, and operative UX design, increasing conversions. Increase conversion rate by increasing the number of visitors and see a significant bounce in company revenue.

In such a manner, you give primary reasons to people not to switch brands, increase their interest in buying from you, and make them recommend your products and services to others. A good UX design is another factor in your business’s success.

3 — Increase in Brand Loyalty -

To form a long-lasting relationship, you need two things — user-centric UX designs and fixing bugs wherever you find some issues within your site. It says the first impression is the last, which also goes for your UX design. Building brand loyalty is the soul of any business. Impress your customers with good UX design so they experience hassle-free experience and purchase from you.

Give your customers a reason to buy repeatedly from your website. A pleasant and efficient UX design is a plus point for your website.

4 — Growing ROI -

Why do people do business? There are many reasons, but the common one is money. People do business to generate more revenue and ROI. UX design also helps you increase ROI because it is possible to get the desired results with effective and easy-to-understand designs.

With well-structured designs, customers engage with your site more. The more engagement, the more the sales come. More purchases lead to more revenue and customers’ loyalty to the brand as they love shopping from you. Customers prefer to return to any product or service if listed on the website, making their visit smooth and effortless.

5 — Creates Strong Brand Image -

Creating a strong and positive brand image for any brand or business is mandatory because no brand can stand in the marketplace without this. But how is UX design helping you in creating a strong brand image? Just think of a 5-star hotel serving the food that has no taste you expect. How does it sound? Poor, right? The same thing goes for websites. How good content, creatives, products, or services a website has, but if it doesn’t have effective functionality and an easy-to-use feel, no one spends time on such sites.

Website is not just about selling products and eye-catching graphics; it has to be efficient and understandable for people to use easily.

In today’s digital age, brands with good UX design stand out. Understand what your customers want and what they need. Make the user experience the best for them to come to you repeatedly. Find a way to stand out from the crowd and be phenomenal in this monotonous world.

Liveblack is a digital marketing agency providing services in UI and UX design. We believe in offering concepts that are out of the box and make your brand stand out. We love to design in a way that engages people. Our skills speak through our best UX portfolio.

[perfectiongeeks]

What is ChatGPT - Perfectiongeeks

In the rapidly advancing landscape of artificial intelligence, ChatGPT has emerged as a groundbreaking language model, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in natural language processing (NLP). Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is the latest iteration in the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) series, renowned for its ability to understand and generate human-like text. In this comprehensive exploration, we delve into the intricacies of ChatGPT, its architecture, applications, strengths, limitations, and the impact it has had on various industries.

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[jeff-from-marketing]

This is a whole ass trend across software in general and it pisses me the fuck off.

Every single music streaming service has gone this route and it's so fucking bad and unusable on desktop, because funnily enough, desktop and mobile have VERY different UI/UX requirements!! Spotify quite literally ported their mobile UI to their desktop app, and I have not stopped bitching about it since because it's just such a massive downgrade in usability.

Look at this shit! Y'see the red circled area? Yeah that's all the actually useful bit of the program. The entire rest of it is so fucking useless. And even this bit is such a fucking pain in the ass to use. It takes three fucking clicks to change between viewing artists I have saved to viewing my playlists. Y'know what previous versions of Spotify let me do? View them both at the same fucking time, because there was actually room for that! Even if you didn't want to do that, look at how much dead fucking space there is! In fact, when you're not filtering by a specific thing, ALL THREE BUTTONS FOR ARTISTS, ALBUMS, AND PLAYLISTS ARE VISIBLE! THEY ALL FIT THERE! But when you go to look through just one of those, the other buttons disappear! WHY!? THERE'S STILL ROOM FOR THEM! YOU'RE JUST GIVING ME MORE CLICKS FOR NO REASON! THIS ISN'T MOBILE, THERE'S ROOM THERE!

Going to another, admittedly a lot more niche thing: let's talk about digital character sheets real quick. Particularly ones that have separate desktop and mobile layouts.

Pathbuilder 2e is, in my eyes, the gold standard of digital character sheets. It's not perfect, but damn it's good.

Now there is still some dead space, and to give it full credit I am running this at a larger resolution with no scaling (1440p display, 100% resolution scale) But everything is sorted neatly, pretty much all the space can be used if it's needed to be used for anything. It's compact, but not claustrophobic.

Compare it to an alternative, Pathfinder Nexus, and problems are immediate:

LOOK AT ALL THAT EMPTY SPACE TO THE SIDES!! Even ignoring the double banner problem for a moment, constricting space even further. This sheet is actively struggling to show even basic information, I have to scroll quite a lot to see all the skills, changing to the spells tab means scrolling a lot just to see even some of the spells, equipment is a mess, etc. All because it's just so squished in and not using ANY of the space to its sides!

The only time it ever uses that dead space is if you click something and it brings up a popup window. Which, btw, Pathbuilder does as well but uses the space more efficiently. You could move so much of the top half of the sheet around, spread it out more, and you would have so much more space to work with. They even have a separate, DIFFERENT, mobile UI! So there's no reason to restrict yourself so much on desktop!

Just continuing the TTRPG information trend for a moment, you can see this is an issue that persists with all of Pathfinder Nexus. Let's compare it to the standard the Pathfinder community is used to: Archives of Nethys.

Again, keep in mind my resolution scaling. But see? All the width is used, they could do more with it (and I'll discuss that in a second) but it's not trying to emulate mobile. They're not unnecessarily restricting their useable space for no reason.

Let's go back to Pathfinder Nexus for a moment to see the same information and- oh god damn it.

Even ignoring the double banner problem again, SO MUCH DEAD SPACE! Whereas AoN manages to fit all 22 classes on one page without having to scroll or anything, Pathfinder Nexus can't even fully fit in six. YOU COULD FIT IN A WHOLE TWO MORE CLASSES ON EACH SIDE PER ROW! Admittedly Nexus does give a brief blurb on each class without having to click or hover over anything, and that is quite nice actually, I actually do wish AoN filled up their space a bit more with stuff like that. So I wouldn't expect 100% parity with AoN just for that alone, but that does not excuse just how much dead space there is. And once again, the mobile layout is different to desktop, there's no reason to constrict yourself like this. The dead space literally isn't being used for anything. You could seven classes in a row with how much dead space there is, and with how many classes Pathfinder has that is actually important.

And in both these Nexus cases, I'm actually giving it a better chance of being good because of the aforementioned resolution scaling. But even when given help, it's still just bad. Because what that resolution scaling ends up doing in these cases is just giving even more dead space.

And the AoN team is a small group of people kept afloat by donations and patreon. Nexus is hosted by Demiplane, which is a much larger team who have a lot more resources at hand. Why is AoN doing this much better??

And now we go full circle back to Tumblr. It's not fucking subtle what they're doing, they're clearly just straight up copying the Twitter UI, without actually thinking it through if that UI was actually any good. Quick tip for, well, anyone really: just because someone is used to something, doesn't inherently make it good. People may be familiar with the Twitter UI, but that doesn't make it a good UI.

Nothing in the new update is an improvement. Some of it is strictly worse than the old UI in fact. But most importantly: STOP TREATING DESKTOP AND MOBILE THE SAME WAY. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT DESIGN NEEDS.

everyone's saying it but yeah the new tumblr desktop layout is complete garbage lmao

yknow what i really can't fucking stand. how every social media now feels like it's designed for mobile first but then subsequently there is NO design for desktop and they just kinda slap a mobile interface onto a widescreen canvas and fill it with a solid color. like why is what feels like 60% of my dashboard just negative space on a 16:9 monitor. the entire thing is so fucking claustrophobic and just bunched together. use the space!!!! why are the timeline switcher tabs at the top of the screen getting cut off!!! you could fit all of them!!!

[the-sneep-snoop]

i have said it once i have said it a thousand times there is no greater hell for me than experiencing bad ux design.

partly because autism and i will cry if something is too confusing or doesnt work how its supposed to and partly because i did ux design for a job a few years although at a very basic level and that lets me give myself the false belief that i have any authority here

but this is seriously on my mind a lot like if i was better at writing and / or into journalism? trust that i would have already published a more refined version of this post on medium or something. unfortunately i will be addressing you today from the humble uncapitalised unpunctuated tumblr post.

anyways i just like to complain so, here are some things i hate about websites (and some badly formatted pdfs) featuring varying levels of explanation

A SECTION FOR LONG ANSWER RESPONSE BUT EVERY LINE IS A SEPARATE FIELD AND ALSO YOU CAN'T DELETE YOUR TEXT

idk if i can explain this in a way that justifies the horrors. imagine you are trying to apply for scholarships via a fillable pdf and you must answer a prompt with a paragraph length response. but alas, upon reaching the end of the line, you can no longer type. hitting return does nothing to advance to the next line. oh well, maybe try again, select what you have and delete it. but alas again! hitting delete does nothing to delete your text. fortunately you discover that you can still copy and paste, even if it pasts a row above the one you had selected. well, it is what it is, and with a burst of resolve you type out your whole paragraph in google docs, and painstakingly copy and paste excerpts whose length is dictated only by trial and error due to different font sizes. you definitely did not cry for three hours over this ordeal

WEBSITE MAIN PAGE THAT'S JUST A LOT OF BUTTONS

my lovely university's student services website which is used for silly little things like paying tuition and selecting courses. it has lots of helpful webpages and helpful redirects / shortcuts to helpful external webpages. lots of them! around a hundred if you count. how is it arranged? how does navigation work? well, each and every one of them is a small square button. and it's all just arranged in one massive grid. hundreds of them. not in any particular order.

WHITE TEXT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND

nothing else to say about it

DROP DOWN MENUS ON A PDF THAT IS MEANT TO BE PRINTED

let me paint you a picture. a form that is printed and given to all students in the school for them to fill out. a field where something must be rated on a numerical scale from one to five. every student receives a form that has the number five already printed in that field. why? why, you ask, asks everyone unfortunate enough to be tasked with filling this form. well, one trailblazer who did it digitally via fillable pdf has discovered the elusive solution to this mystery. it was supposed to be a dropdown menu. a dropdown menu that has been flattened and killed like a fly in a papercopier.

A JOB APPLICATION THAT ASKS TOO MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

idk if it's even allowed to ask that but they did. and in the goofiest way possible. it asks 'have you ever used a website or social media. enter the url here' . there is only one field and it is required to proceed. oh man, i'll have to think really hard about which website (out of all the websites i have used in my life) i should respond with...!

A FORM DISGUISED AS A CHATBOT

i am very passionate about this one. i think it is evil. i think disguising forms as chatbots is useless and inefficient. i don't see much appeal in an illusion, a poor mimicry of human-to-human customer service, for the sake of a marginal amount of vague approximations of 'social connections' and 'friendliness' and 'approachability'. at the very least, it's not worth the sacrifice of usability. it is conversational, and that tricks you (including less digitally literate older people, the kind who type please and thank you into their google searches) into thinking you should respond conversationally. what if it says

"hi! my name is linda and i am your virtual assistant! do you have a postal code you can provide"

and the user replies

"hi linda! thanks so much! i do have a postal code, I just have to double check that I have the right one, could you hold on a minute?"

and the chatbot is expecting something more along the lines of "A9A 9A9". i should also mention at this point that i am not at all educated on how chatbots work and for all i know i am dead wrong and i am tilting at windmills. in which case i probably deserve to be shamed but also please be nice to me please don't be mean thank you

AN INFAMOUSLY INTRUSIVE PERSONALITY TEST THAT HAS A NEW FEATURE (CONFUSING IMAGES)

okay so certain well known fast food company recruitment process includes a 'personality test' that is more like a job interview because it asks you questions that often have wildly obvious correct and incorrect answers (despite its disguise as a 'there are no right and wrong answers here' type of personality quiz). this has been criticised for having questions about things like if you would choose to cheat on a test , if you would defend the company against your friends discussing 'negative and unfair press', if you would yell at your neighbour, if you would break the dress code. the criticism comes from it being unrealistic and silly, but it also ties into how many neurodivergent people struggle with honesty vs. the 'right answer' in job interviews.

now, that's bad enough, but someone decided it needed some visual aids to help explain the scenarios depicted - granted, that's a nice idea, but not executed super well. for one thing, the computer generated mascots who live in a futuristic science fiction world with the brand logo all over everything is not the most appealing thing to think about. for another, i found that sometimes the scenarios just didn't match up or make sense with the questions, and made me feel incompetent at reading what was going on in the scene. which is very stressful and not super fun.

RACIAL DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS ON JOB APPLICATION

yes i understand that collecting statistics on prospective job seekers can be useful. yes i acknowledge that most forms with these questions are nice and allow multiple checkboxes to be ticked. but in this day and age i keep finding dropdown menus or mutually exclusive radio buttons to indicate race. that's right, you can only choose one option. which is awkward for some people. like me for example. at least sometimes i am allowed to choose the option of 'other' :)

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and that's it for today. i may very likely be able to think of more but i'd rather not tbh. turns out there is a lot of negativity brewing in my mushy little mind after spending an hour and a half typing out my every grievance with every poorly designed website and form. who knew? and on top of that i lowkey hate how comedically challenged / tryhard / quirkly my writing voice turned out. it wasn't meant to be this way. trust me, i hate it too. this is an incoherent ramble written in the most mysterious hours of the night / morning in the midst of illness and fueled by nothing but my brain juice. which is not always the most pleasant juice out there if you know what i mean. so if you read this and you hate me please keep in mind that i am not the pretentious individual person i come off as. i am not usually like this. it's like i have been possessed. sorry