Good UI design not only makes the software personalized and tasteful, but also makes the operation of the software comfortable, simple and free, which fully embodies the positioning and characteristics of the software.
The functions of UI designers generally include three aspects: first, graphic design, and product "shape" design of software products. The second is interactive design, which mainly lies in designing the operation flow, tree structure and operation specification of the software.
What a software product needs to do before coding is interaction design, interaction model and interaction specification. The third is user testing/research. The so-called "test" here aims to test the rationality of interactive design and the aesthetics of graphic design, mainly through the form of target user questionnaire to measure the rationality of UI design.
Without this test and research, the quality of UI design can only be judged by the experience of designers or the aesthetics of leaders, which will bring great risks to enterprises.
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Career prospects
UI, that is, the user interface design industry, has just emerged in the global software industry, belonging to the high-paying technical design industry, and its development level is comparable to that of foreign countries.
Secondly, many large IT enterprises at home and abroad (such as Baidu, Tencent, Yahoo, China Mobile, Nokia, Lenovo, Netease, Microsoft, Shanda, Taobao and many others) have set up professional UI design departments, but there is a shortage of professionals and fierce competition in human resources.
The job market is in short supply. Now the domestic UI design is developing day by day, with a special professional division of labor, some high-level front-line designers and UI design exchange organizations have begun to appear.
But generally speaking, in this field, the gap between us and western developed countries is still very obvious. Different from material products, the software field has limitations in technology and materials, and the core problem lies in people.
Therefore, improving the personal ability of software UI designers and truly enhancing the humanization of software products has become the top priority of UI development in China.
The annual salary of UI design work is basically maintained at 65,438+00 to 65,438+05, the annual salary of experienced designers can reach 200,000, and the annual salary of senior UI designers can be higher.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia -UI Design