Understanding UX discovery
The biggest challenge in designing UIs for an application is to make the right choices. These choices can be about screen layout, the display of data, color, icons, or font. The questions you ask yourself will be based on what selection you want to make.
When you talk to your business stakeholders, they will say things such as the following:
- "I need an overview of all the items."
- "Can we have more icons?"
- "In Excel, we had all fields on one screen and could zoom in and out!"
This will not help you to make selections by any means. This is where UX discovery kicks in. But first, let's have a look at the difference between UX and UI.
User experience
In short, UX is about understanding what a user is doing, why they do it, how they do it, and what their requirements are to perform any action. This also means that UX is not about how things look. It is about how the user is interacting with the...
