User experience Vs. Interaction design: Which one should you seek?
When wondering about the extensive world of User Experience, our first impression of the word elucidates an easy, aesthetically pleasing, and user-friendly feature-set of a product that is designed to make your life simpler! If you ask us in technicality, UX is not a set of features; it is the experience you get from using those features! A lot of people ask us: Isn’t this the same as Interaction design? Well, it is on the same lines but to mistake them for one entity is a perpetual sin in the design world, pun intended. There is a slight bit of difference that gives UX the power to stand out. So, how is it really different?
User experience Vs. Interaction design?
Nowadays, you will see a paradigm shift in the way roles in companies are allotted and assigned to employees. A firm example would be that a decade ago, companies would hire specialists in interaction design or usability engineers that would be responsible for providing an exceptional experience to users. At the moment, however, companies recruit user experience specialists. So, how do both differ? Well, it is more or less the same however, since this specific term “user experience” has overpowered others, it speaks volumes about the change in emphasis. To elaborate on this, UX used to be a minor aspect of the role of an interaction designer or usability engineer, now it has become a dedicated unit that is indispensable to the company. Think of it this way: Experience makes people feel a certain type of way and that is why it is the key reason people browse through websites for hours at a stretch.
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