User interface can be seen everywhere in our life. What is a user interface? What is user interface design? What are the main types of user interfaces? What are the specific rules and requirements of user interface design? This section introduces some basic theoretical knowledge related to user interface design.
Definition of UI: The full name of UI is user interface, which translates into User interface in Chinese, and refers to the overall design of human-computer interaction, operation logic and beautiful interface of software. We send instructions to the mobile phone through this interface, and the mobile phone generates corresponding feedback according to the instructions. The person who designs this interface vision is called a UI designer.
Common types of UI design: engaging in web design on the PC side, we call it WUI(Web User Interface) designer or web designer. On the mobile side, designers engaged in graphical user interface design are called GUI (Graphical User Interface) designers. Now UI refers to the design of mobile phone interface.
In daily life, when we turn on the mobile phone, the screen lock interface we see is a part of UI, which belongs to the interface design. Slide right to unlock is displayed on the interface. This prompt and operation is interaction design. After unlocking successfully, there will be an animation, or zoom in, or ripple, or fade out to switch to the main interface. The process of this animation is interactive effect; After entering the main interface, you can see neatly arranged application icons, such as telephone, SMS and camera WeChat. These are the icon designs in the UI.
When we open the system settings, we can see all kinds of settings and small icons of mobile phone functions, as well as the small buttons of those switches, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile network and so on. For the whole interface, whether you can quickly find the function you want to set, whether the overall design is beautiful, whether the operation is smooth, and whether you can make users feel comfortable with the whole process is the user experience.