Difference between Interaction Designer, Visual Designer and Usability Expert

Difference between Interaction Designer, Visual Designer and Usability Expert

Difference between Interaction Designer, Visual Designer and Usability Expert
The UX process is not a single element or activity, but a process where a series of activities are conducted to ensure that the product delivers a good user experience. It begins by understanding the business requirement, researching to know the users, then collating all these information to develop a wireframe which is later aesthetically prepared and developed. It all does not stop there. The product is further tested to make sure that it functions well and is taken well by the users.
Now between all these activities, the lines or distinction between each process is blurred. Since a UX designer ends up performing more than just one part of the process, it is not surprising that such blurring occurs. Yet, there are some core processes which can be clearly demarked. UX Designers can become experts in these core processes based on their interests and skills.
Here is a quick distinction between Interaction Designers, Visual Designers and Usability experts.
Interaction Designing forms that part of UX Designing where the objectives of the business and the user research results are collated to come up with a strategy of how the product must be laid out. This will form the very skeleton or foundation of the website or mobile application to be made. In other words, it forms the blue print of the product. An Interaction Designer deals with the experience and interaction of the product, which is defined through wireframes. These wireframes are refined to come up with how the screens must be and how each element on the screen must interact with each other.


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