user interface design
Digital interaction planning
User interface design is the practice of crafting how people interact with software, websites, or devices—the layout of buttons, menus, text, and visual elements that users see and manipulate.
Good UI design makes systems intuitive and efficient; poor design frustrates users and buries functionality.
The field overlaps with user experience (UX) design but focuses specifically on visual and interactive elements rather than the broader journey: She studied user interface design before moving into product management.
- user flowSequence of interface steps
- learnabilityEase of acquisition
- visual hierarchyOrder of attention in design
- typographyArranging letters for display
- layoutSpatial arrangement of elements
affordances · color palette · buttons · call to action · sliders · drag and drop · click through · accessibility standards · error messages · menu · wireframing · mobile first · white space · consistency · pixel perfect · grid systems · iconography · animations