The user interface and user experience are one of the most important parts and foundations behind any software, website, or web application.
Here you can read more: The Critical Role of UX in Website Success
Software development started with CUI (Command line User Interface). It’s still in use. Then comes GUI (Graphical User Interface) in which users can interact with computers and software through mouse pointers, icons, buttons, folders, and windows. The interface is structured, animated and colorful, and more interactive.
Why is user experience design important?
Now because of the development in Information technology, hardware, and mobile devices one of the latest is the touchscreen interface focusing on UI/UX is more important to create seamless experiences.
For example, the size of the menu, and icon have to be as large as that is comfortable for the user to touch with a finger. The mouse pointer is small than the size of a finger. But if you’re using the same small size of menus for touchscreen devices then it’s not called a good interface.
That’s why these days it’s important to create a responsive structure and layout to display content to the user. This means the website is fully functional, interactive, and easy to use on each device while maintaining a traditional and modern approach to the devices. Read More: The Importance of Responsive Web Design for Your Website
Most interactive, clean, and modern user interface designs as per the screen size and content contribute to increasing user experience. That’s why these days software and web development companies also hire designers who specialize in user interface design and user experience.
The user interface design is used to guide and instruct developers and web designers to build websites and web applications according to the UI/UX design. So that the design and interactivity of the website and web application remain consistent, responsive, and functional on all types of devices and screen sizes.
The tools used for this are many, even you can design a user interface in Microsoft Word applications, photoshop or in paint programs or on paper. But if you want to provide a great user experience and seamless user-friendly interface to your users and customers then you must use UI/UX tools.
The popular and specialized UI UX tools that you can use in your business and project are Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD