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title: "What's the difference between UI and UX design?"  
description: "What's the difference between UI and UX design?"  
author: "John d'souza"  
published: 2017-11-25  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/31155/what-s-the-difference-between-ui-and-ux-design  
category: "programming"  
tags: ["ui", "ux", "designing", "graphics design", "web design"]  
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# What's the difference between UI and UX design?

## Answers

### Answer by Arti Mishra

**"[Difference](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/398/difference-between-object-type-and-var-type) between UX and [UI Design](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11506/why-ui-design-is-compulsory-for-a-website)" :**

![What](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/4622a144-8543-450f-abea-6bc648315101/images/e16e81d6-a0d4-4837-acc4-78a13c5e3b0e.png)**\**

**UX Design**

- UX Design stands for **User Experience design**.
- UX design is used in the internal experience that a person easily **interacts with every aspect of company’s products and services.**
- UX designers handle a lot of the research that will validate or invalidate and also **guide the development of the product**.
- Generally, talking about UX design, then it behaves as a **digital design.**

**\****UI Design**

- UI refers to the term **User Interface Design**.
- It is a collection of **screens, pages, document, images, video** and other elements like- **text field, icon, button, drop-down lists** etc. that’s you **easily interact with the device.**
- User Interface Design is generally used in the visual design and information design around the screens.
- It is a point of interaction between the users and the software or hardware devices that’s are using.
- UI Design generally has done with pen, pencil and computer software, or build directly by the code or different materials.

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