UX is not synonymous with UI!
Keep this in mind whenever you see an ad for “UX/UI.” That slash is utterly misleading. Instead, it should read, “UX with a focus on the UI design.” That’s an honest ad. Otherwise, it’s a wide net cast for whatever shows up.
Erik has written a great article on why UX and UI aren’t synonyms. Read it. Learn it. Live it.
I’ll probably return to this them on occasion, but I find a lot of inspiration to what we do in physical architecture.
I recently found out that a classmate from high school is a guru in the architecture world: Tim Culvahouse. On the front page he’s got a great quotation:
Architecture designs situations, not just buildings; and situations, as any psychologist knows, are the most powerful determinants of behavior: more powerful than personality, habit, education, character, genetic makeup, more powerful than anything.
Indeed. You could paraphrase this in our world as
Experience architecture designs situations, not just applications; and situations, as any psychologist knows, are the most powerful determinants of behavior: more powerful than personality, habit, education, character, genetic makeup, more powerful than anything.
Also, a neat page from his site talks about the physical and spatial (isn’t that the same?) nature of New Orleans. Nice to see focused yet small ruminations on a theme. We should do more in the UX world.
