What is UI & UX Design?

User Interface Development is defined as the development of websites, web applications, mobile applications, and software. The User Interface plays a key role in the software development life cycle [SDLC]. Most people assume UI development is all about creating websites and writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but user interface goes far beyond these technical terms. The goal of the user interface is to make the user’s interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing user goals.

Think about it this way: The user experiences only front end interactions, such as the look and feel of the website/application. More often than not, they don’t concern themselves with the back end – like app design, coding elements, or methodologies employed in content layout. What’s more, users need to feel engaged and at ease when they visit your website.  That’s where UI engineers come into the picture – to fulfill this task.

Cultivating a User Interface can be divided into two phases in website/application/software development:

1. Research + Design
2. Development

Research and Design:

Research and analysis are all about interviewing users project stakeholders and gathering their input to create a requirements document that includes personas, user scenarios, user behavior, and user experience evaluation metrics. During this phase, it is also important to understand the target audience so as to better cultivate a user experience design.

Business analysts and a user experience team usually lead the research phase. Both teams collect all information and inputs from users and project stakeholders in order to discuss technical terms with developers and project managers. Lastly, they prepare final documentation.

With the help of documentation, UX teams start the design process. They first create the wire frames to bring a rough idea to the project stakeholders and users.

Wire frames are presented as a comprehensive screen layout consisting of black and white sketches of every screen in the application. At this point, the visual and graphic design processes dictating the visual appeal have not yet begun.

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Give a Fresh Look to Legacy User Interface (UI)

We continue to use Legacy User Interface’s (UI) for lots of reasons: they’re dependable, tried, and true methods that developers have used for years and years. However, when it comes to traditions, developers can get stuck using the same solutions to problems that have evolved (leading to solutions that aren’t effective anymore).

Why It’s Important to Update

The way technology changes make it hard to stay with legacy User Interface (UI) for very long (unless a company has no other options or is simply being stubborn). By updating, an application can be easier to use, provide more functionality to customers, and better reflect a company’s brand. At all times, an application needs to be optimized for the end-user: a company’s target audience. Because an audience’s needs are never static (they are constantly evolving as technology changes the way they live their lives), it’s important to maintain an evergreen approach to UI design.

Companies that have not been able to make any changes to their legacy UI for a long time will typically notice a dramatic decrease in customer engagement and use of their web or mobile application. Anticipating a customer’s needs or desires is the key to placing yourself at the cutting edge of an industry, and a critical aspect of showing your audience that you are the expert.

Drawbacks of Updating

Depending on how long it has been since the UI has gotten a fresh look, it could take a while to go through the lengthy process of reworking many of the outdated features on the application. This will typically require some research to see just what your customers need within the application and might even force an overall branding update if it’s been long enough as well. Integrating the brand within the application, along with beautiful UI design is the best way to show your company can adapt to change and do what is best for their customers. With so many companies already modernizing their apps, businesses that are left behind will surely feel the impact in their retention and engagement rates.

Where Charter Global Comes In

Simplifying navigation, adding voice commands, overall presentation look, and even how the customer can interact with the site itself are all new updates that can give legacy UI a fresh design. The Charter Global research team can suggest a variety of new UI screen recommendations off of what your customer wants or expects from your application. We will be able to tell you all the features to focus the most time and effort on, as well as which ones can be taken off of your application entirely. Let us help you modernize and update your old legacy User Interface (UI) to a beautiful, state of the art UI design.


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User Experience and User Interface Defined | Charter Global

User Interface Development is defined as the development of websites, web applications, mobile applications, and software. The User Interface plays a key role in the software development life cycle [SDLC]. Most people assume UI development services is all about creating websites and writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, but user interface goes far beyond these technical terms. The goal of the user interface is to make the user’s interaction as simple and efficient as possible, in terms of accomplishing user goals.

Think about it this way: The user experiences only front end interactions, such as the look and feel of the website/application. More often than not, they don’t concern themselves with the back end – like app design, coding elements, or methodologies employed in content layout. What’s more, users need to feel engaged and at ease when they visit your website. That’s where UI engineers come into the picture – to fulfill this task.

Cultivating a User Interface can be divided into two phases in website or application or software development services:

1. Research + Design
2. Development

Research and Design:

Research and analysis are all about interviewing users & project stakeholders and gathering their input to create a requirements document that includes personas, user scenarios, user behavior, and user experience evaluation metrics. During this phase, it is also important to understand the target audience so as to better cultivate a user experience design.

Business analysts and a user experience team usually lead the research phase. Both teams collect all information and inputs from users and project stakeholders in order to discuss technical terms with developers and project managers. Lastly, they prepare final documentation.

With the help of documentation, UX teams start the design process. They first create the wire frames to bring a rough idea to the project stakeholders and users. Wireframes are presented as a comprehensive screen layout consisting of black and white sketches of every screen in the application. At this point, the visual and graphic design processes dictating the visual appeal have not yet begun.

Wire-frame Example:

Next, developers must focus on creating prototypes that will simulate the real application. A prototype can contain one or more features, but it actually does nothing. It merely simulates the behavior of a real application, and users can see color combinations and minimal functionality in real time. Wire frames/Sketches and Prototypes are done by UX designers.

Tools to create Wireframes and Prototypes:

• Balsamiq Mockups
• Axure
• Gliffy
• iPhone mockup
• InDesign
• Photoshop
• Fireworks
• Dream weaver

UX Designer Role and Responsibilities:

1. Strong conceptualization ability, strong visual communication ability, drawing skills and sketchbook technique.
2. Strong working knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Fireworks and associated design tools.
3. Strong working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript/JQuery.
4. Experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies.
5. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially the ability to clearly articulate design decisions with stakeholders and development teams.
6. Understanding of common software development practices.
7. Solid understanding of user-centered design principles, careful attention to detail, and ability to grasp complex, nuanced product requirements.
8. Collaborating on user experience planning and researching interaction design trends.
9. Researching technology trends.

Note: Responsibilities would be based on company and project requirements.

Read More: A few examples of UI Developer technologies

Reference Links:

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https://www.charterglobal.com/technology-solutions/application-development/

https://www.charterglobal.com/technology-solutions/mobile-apps/