What Does a UI/UX Designer Actually Do?
UI development is the process of programming client-facing interfaces. Like UI design, the UI development process includes writing code for images, animations, sliders, text fields, buttons and more.
About UI Development
UX design is all about identifying and solving user problems; UI design is all about creating intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, interactive interfaces. UX design usually comes first in the product development process, followed by UI.
A UI developer translates creative design ideas and concepts into reality by applying front-end technology, with a thorough understanding of the interface both in its creative vision and practical intent. They're usually the bridge between the presentation layer and the backend layer, taking the design developed by the UX designer as an input and turning it into working software. UI developers have deep knowledge of CSS, HTML, Angular, AJAX, React and JavaScript, among other tools.
User interface development has come a long way in the last decade and a half. Earlier UI development was primarily focused on generating presentable markup for one or two leading browsers; in modern times, it's expected to create a remarkable user experience that runs across a multitude of browsers and client devices — driven largely by improvements in edge device capabilities and network bandwidth.
Today, UI/UX is arguably one of the key differentiators for online business success, drawing significant creative and engineering talent and inspiring a wide range of frameworks for building applications across browsers, mobile and other client devices.
