Refusing vulgar Ux≠ui

I didn't get an invitation to say that it would be a product demo about UX. In many examples, developers demonstrate new UI controls, techniques, code, and claim to talk about the user experience. I would say, stop being vulgar and understand the facts.

Forgive my father, for I have sinned.

I have the background of the developer. I understand some code, so I understand the developer terminology and the overall logic. What I don't understand is when developers start talking about UX, it's just a display of new UI controls and some features. Nice, neat, very important, cool, but I'd say it's not UX.

Today, on Twitter, and later in the mail, I received the naming invitation for a livemeeting similar to "Create a good user experience with Silverlight4", prior to last week's Microsoft Windays meeting – the same story – two lectures, Two of developers focused on their domain communities have shown many great technologies and claimed that they are user experiences. This is a painful, frustrating and obvious mistake. (I'll ignore the technical details so people don't think that Silverlight4 is just something that drives Windows Phone 7 devices, even if it's MVP here) anyway, it's easy to talk about new UI controls such as RichTextBox and code that shows how to connect to the database. But it's not UX. It can be called UI, UI development, or UI design (in part), but it's not UX.

And it may just be my personal feeling that, according to my impression, this misconception and the vulgar UX are more from developers-evangelists from Microsoft, Sun or IBM. These companies maintain the investment and education of all parties concerned – customers and communities. Good things have been done so far – but clearly more needs to be done.

We love pop words (though we don't know what they mean)

I know that UX is a cool slogan (there are many, most of which are acronyms ...). It is sometimes so tempting to be used without having to really understand its meaning – but to put the facts aside, it makes you look shallow because it's absolutely wrong. If we tend to call ourselves a professional, then we should play one of them – which means ready to accept and learn new things even if they are not in the main areas of our expertise. If I talk about creating new controls and UI patterns with *insert_your_technology_here*, we call them UI rather than UX.

UX definition?

What is UX? I don't need to reinvent the wheel, here are some popular resources that will help you understand the difference:

1. Mashable:10 the most common misconceptions about user experience design
2. Uxmastters and their glossary
3. UX definition by Nielsen Norman Group
4. Elements of user experience by Jesse James Garrett (PDF)
5. Eric Reiss and Fatdux definition of user experience

One of the best articles on this topic: UX Design VS UI development by UX matters and Mike Hughes.

At the very least, if you can't help yourself to use UX or talk about UX (even if you know you're talking about UI and UI development), be considerate to your customers and users – practice some UX methods and techniques. Or seek help from UX professionals-there are many good, smart and talented people. They're really doing UX, not just talking about it.

Original developers, UX is isn't UI, learn that and stop Trivializing!stop trivializing!
Reject Vulgar Ux≠ui

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