Designing Effective User Interfaces and Experiences

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User Experience and Interface Design

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
1. Necessary aspects of the User Experience and the Interface Design.......................................3
2. User Experience map and User Interface Design concept.....................................................10
3. User Interface Designs and its concepts of testing.................................................................11
4. Evaluating user feedbacks and test results and gained insights from end users interacting
with User Interfaces.......................................................................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................17
References......................................................................................................................................18

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Introduction
Two things make the first impression for the user satisfaction, these two things are the User
Experience Design (UX) and the other is User Interface Design (UI) of the web applications as
well as mobile applications. These two things are very essential element of a product and they
work together for proper functioning as well as user satisfaction. They have a professional
relation for the functioning but their roles are different in aspects of the service. They are also
having a difference in the process as well design. The User Experience Design is having more
analytical as well as technical processes but the User Interface Design refers to the design of the
interface of the product. The responsibilities are quite complex in nature. The UX is a
methodology by which it enhances the satisfaction as well as the loyalty of the customer. The
customers or the users feel easy to use as well as there will be a pleasure for the connection in
between the application and the user. The UX design does not depend on the medium of
communication but it also encloses the various interactions of the users depending on their
potential or the activeness.
The UI design has a huge variety and it acts as a complement of the User Experience for
optimizing and enhancing the presentation of the applications. The designers of the UX come
with a various fields of backgrounds. The designing of the UX can include the visual and
interaction designing, psychology as well as the programming of the application.

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1. Necessary aspects of the User Experience and the Interface Design
Formats, characteristics and the appropriateness of the User Experience and the Interface
Design
In order to design the UX and UI, there are three main formats regarding the portfolios. They are
listed below:
 There is a need of the platform website in which the showcase of the work will be
presented.
 There has to be a website in which will have the own domain and web hosting.
 The entire work is to be saved in a PDF format (Kieffer et al. 2019).
The characteristics of a good User Interface and good User experience design are discussed
below:
Simple:
The most important element of the UI design is making it simple as well as clear. The main
motto of the UI and UX design is to interact with various users via applications in a simple
understandable way (Dudley and Kristensson 2018). There will be user frustration if they cannot
find or understand the works of the application or the website in simpler format.
Familiar
The majority of the UI and UX designers try to make all the applications and the websites more
‘intuitive’. This refers to the comprehending the work naturally. The familiar things are easy to
find and use for anybody (Allison et al. 2015). Therefore, in this connection, the designer tries to
make the designs more familiar. The integration of the familiar things in the designing will be
done to make it easy for the users.

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Consistent
The consistency in the UIs and UX helps the majority of the user to identify the various patterns
for using the application (Kamaruzaman et al. 2016). They will grow an overall idea about the
shapes and designs of the menus or the icons for recognizing the various contexts.
Concise
The UI designers keep in mind to make the things concise. This will reduce the mass of the
application and websites and makes them light to use by the customers. The customers expect a
lightweight application in order to experience the flexibility (Martinez et al. 2017).
Responsive
The responsiveness of an application depend upon many things, the first essential thing is to
make the application faster. The software that is used by the designers should be fast enough to
load the pages efficiently in low internet speed connectivity (Mohammadi et al. 2017). The
loading of the pages quickly without lagging will always improve the experience of the users or
customers.
Attractive
Majority of the users or customers expects a website or application to be attractive. The
attractiveness of the UI means the customers or the users will enjoy while using the application.
Including the clarity, simplicity as well as responsiveness of the UI, there is a need of the
attractiveness for the UI that will add more satisfaction (Liebenberg et al. 2017). There will be
many types of similar websites as well apps and the one will look good will create the difference.
Efficient
The effectiveness of the UI or the UX design is to make the availability of the user’s
requirements in an easy way. When the user will find or access the things that they want in an
easy method, the effectiveness of the UI can be measured (Cabrera et al. 2019).

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Forgiving
The forgiving characteristics in the UIs can save the serious mistakes of the users. Forgiving is
one of the best characteristics of the UI that helps to restore or undo some major actions of the
customer (Arriola et al. 2016). This will also help to retain the vital information of the customers
if deleted or have the option to restore it once again.
Overview of the UX and UI design
There is no scope for the applications in the recent times without having some stylish and
usability elements. In majority of the applications, the effectiveness of the applications depends
on the perfect combination of the various functionalities as well as UI attractiveness (Molin
2016).
Roles of User Experience and the User Interface Design
There are some challenges that are faced by the websites as well as designing the apps. These
challenges are discussed below:
 The users are enabled to manage as well as appreciate the complexity of data.
 Promoting the complexity of the various tasks or works
 The different varieties of the responsibilities, processes as well as the requirements of the
application can be accommodated
Methodology of UX and UI Design
The UX process as well as the methodology will be depended on the following things:
 Research of the users
 Designing the Interface
 Wireframing the process
 Prototyping
 Testing the UX
 Implementation of the design and launching

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Various forms of the UX and UI design
To make the presentation as well as the appearance of the applications, the UI designers have to
make it more good looking. These can be done with the help of robust codes. The designers can
use the HTML and CSS for the designing of the UI (Schnall et al. 2016). The following forms of
the UI and UX design are needed for the designing.
Forgiving Forms
It can accept several formats for the designing. This pattern of the formats will enhance the
freedom as well as effectiveness of the users by reducing the risks of losing any vital information
or steps.
Mad Libs formats
There is one problem with majorities of UI form, which is the input fields of the UI are very
unclear. There is one mitigation strategy for that, which will be provided by the Mad Libs. These
formats will provide very relaxed forms of fields to avoid any kind of the confusion for the users
(Oulasvirta 2017).
Stepped wizards
Usually, the various functioning of the applications requires high amount of the data to be taken
as input. In this situation, using the stepped wizards will help to develop a right place to use the
data for the prevention of the unused data.
Progress Bars
Majority of the users expects to visualize the progress of the various tasks that are running.
Moreover, if that takes a long time the user leaves from the website or application (Chen et al.
2016). This problem can be fixed by the implementation of the task progress bars that can be
used for:
 Completion of the profiles
 Completion of the forms

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 Checkout for the e-commerce websites
 Any tutorials, audio or video
Indicating the profits
Using the smart forms of the UI helps to give necessary information about the task and the
benefits of it. By providing the information, the users will be reminded at every process or steps
(Chen et al. 2018). The indication of the benefits can be done through sending some information
in the user’s response.
Advantages and disadvantages of the UX and UI design
Advantages of the UX and UI design
 Addition of the customers:
A competitive benefit can be achieved by the successful experiences of the users. They
will work on the costing of the website or the application to attract new users in the
market. Excellent professional UX or UI will provide good business apart from
producing the effective designing of the websites or applications (Wendrich et al. 2016). Retention of the Customers:
Development of the attractive and effective applications will increase the eagerness of
customers to use the applications. The UI should be light and simple to reduce the
complex looks and functionalities of the Application. Reduced support costing:
Majority of the customers seeks the support for better understanding of the website. If the
application is well designed then the cost of the customer support for the training and
help will decrease (Wendrich et al. 2016). The easy and clear design of the applications
will help the users to put less amount of stress for completing the task. Enhances the productivity:
The productivity of the users will automatically increase if there is a great user
experience. With the increase in the productivity, there will be positive impact of finance.
 Minimizing the time of development:
Approximately 50% time of the engineers are spent for fixing the various bugs or errors
in the UI that could be prevented earlier. For example, the wrong assumptions by the

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developers for the customer’s engagement, incorrect navigation and the usage of
confusing features will increase the time of development.
Disadvantages of the UX and UI design
 Mockups of the UI:
When the mockups of the application are designed, it creates an unmasking of the various
components that are visible to the users as well as the fitting of the components will
arrive at the time of final delivery by the developers. Multi processes: The various prototypes, mockups as well as the wireframe will take
much time to build the UI by the developers using various tools and languages. The
simpler designs of the UI will help to take less time than the complex ones (Yigitbas et al.
2017).
 Requirements: The proper requirements for a complete project need to be considered for
the design of the UI. The usage of low fidelity will enhance the evaluation of the project
requirements that can developed with a better design by the developers. High fidelity: For the various stakeholders as well as clients, the best option for the
proper visualization is the usage of the high fidelity. There is con of using the High
fidelity is to make the visualization more difficult for the stakeholders.
Benefits of the standard tools available for the UX and UI Design
Using of standard designing tools used by the designers for UX and UI design helps to reduce
the time for designing. Selecting right tools for the designing is very essential for the UI
designer. Some of the familiar tools for designing and developing are listed below:
FIGMA- The functionality of this tool is to make the work by co-operation. It works smoothly
when different designers works simultaneously. The synchronizing of the various elements is
done efficiently (Faisal 2019).
SKETCH- It is a platform for the UI design that is used by various designers globally. There are
some important features of the tool, which includes Precision, Tools, Mirroring and many more.
WEBFLOW- By using this tool, the designer will be able access various new patterns for the
designing.

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RAPID UI- This tool will help the designer to understand as well implement the various trending
designs for the application. It will also do the testing as well as the accessibility of the
application.
MOCKPLUS iDOC- The Mockplus works very fast for the UI designing. It is fast in the
interactions as well. The various functionalities of the Mockplus are easy to understand by the
user.
Best practices for capturing the end user feedbacks
The essential thing for the “Design Thinking Process” will be gathering of the end user
feedbacks. Here are some of practices to capture the feedbacks:
Testing the prototypes:
The proper testing of the prototypes of the UI on proper people will help to enhance the
usefulness as well as the relevance of the various feedbacks (Zahabi et al. 2015).
Asking appropriate questions:
Every prototype needs to have some questions for proper answering. The purpose of the testing
the prototype should be exact with the requirement.
Adapting:
While the prototypes are tested for the feedbacks, the administrators should develop a flexible
mindset for the results.
Ideas from the Users:
While testing and capturing the various prototypes, the users should be allowed to share some
ideas with the designers that will help to improve the service.

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2. User Experience map and User Interface Design concept
User experience map
The map of the user experience acts as a mirror of the interactions of the users of the prducts or
the services of the application. The map helps the designer to sketch the required User
experience and can determine the issues before designing the main prototype of the website. The
designing of the entire UI needs a proper analysing of the whole project as well as the
requirements of the UI to make it possible for the success of the designing (Oinas-Kukkonen and
Harjumaa 2018). The map actually shows the various requirements and expectations of the users
to handle the particular goal. Its gives the idea of the process of interaction by the users for the
required products as well as the applications.
The proper understanding the feedbacks as well as the requirements will help to gain the
following factors:
 Having the proper understanding of the requirement of the user
 The collaborations of the design, technologies and the businesses will make it easier
 Optimizing the various user experiences and pointing the negative feedbacks
 Better designing of the user’s journey
Planning for the Design Methodology
The testing of the usabilty of the UI is done on a website that is used to create proper planning
regarding the techniques of the design. The various objectives for the testing the usability of the
UI are identified by the various test methodologies to carry out an effective method of the test.
The various resources are required for performing the testing of the usability (Wright et al.
2018). Activities of the users are listed and the scheduling of the various activities are done for
the testing of the project.

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Identifying the major goals of the UI design
The proper identification of the goals of the project is needed for the UI response time as well the
throughput for the UI of the application. The various criteria of the performance of the website
needs to be verfied by the tester and the benchmark for the website is required to set. The major
goal for testing the UI of the prototype is to test the various usabiity as well as the analysis of the
UI performance (Qu et al. 2017). An effective plan for the communication is also required to
minimze the social barriers.
3. User Interface Designs and its concepts of testing
The user interface is the portion of interactive computing system that communicates with users.
User interface designs contain interfaces of several aspects of computing systems that is visible
to users.
Design of User Interface along with its appropriate tools to develop the UI/UX design
Design of user interface initiates the analysis of tasks, which includes the conception, and
terminology of a designer.
Therefore, here are many appropriate tools for developing UI designs that helps in producing
digital products. It varies from tools of designs to tools of developing to creation of web tools.
Prototype tools are those kind of tool which benefits to create the products quickly and efficient.
These prototypes demonstrate the concepts and in this way the programmer changes the designs
and its ways (Schrepp et al. 2017).
Design prototypes
SKETCH
Sketch is a type of design of vector based that benefit in designing the interfaces intuitively and
faster. If Photoshop is picked, it will be observed that it is light-weighted software with many art
boards (Grube et al. 2015). Considering this feature, one could pre-design the components such
as widgets, buttons and many complex mechanisms of navigation that replicate the designs over
shapes art boards