UX Design
The practice of shaping how a product feels to use — its flows, structure, and logic — so people reach their goal with the least friction.
UX (user experience) design covers everything that determines whether a product is easy or painful to use: the information architecture, the user flows, the copy, the states, and the decisions about what to show when. It is a research-led discipline — good UX starts from a real user goal and works backward to the simplest path there.
UX is often confused with UI design, but they answer different questions. UX decides what the screens are and why; UI decides how they look. Strong products need both, and the handoff between them is where most quality is won or lost.
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UI DesignThe craft of the visual and interactive surface of a product — layout, type, color, spacing, and components users see and touch.Product DesignEnd-to-end design ownership of a digital product — from user research and strategy through UX, UI, and shipping — tied to business outcomes.User ResearchThe systematic study of users' needs, behaviors, and pain points — through interviews, surveys, and observation — to ground design in evidence.Usability TestingWatching real users attempt real tasks in a product or prototype to find where they struggle, hesitate, or fail.