[Silhouette]

the difference between UI and UX.

This sort of criticism is neither helpful nor accurate. UI has always been about more than just cosmetic details. We've been talking about usability, accessibility, information architecture and so on for almost as long as we've been making UIs. Certainly that means several decades before someone in need of a new buzzword for their blog/presentation/resume first coined the term "user experience".

[dmitriid]

> We've been talking about usability, accessibility, information architecture and so on for almost as long as we've been making UIs.

All of the above is UX, and should be integral part of design. Too often it isn't.

> Certainly that means several decades before someone in need of a new buzzword for their blog/presentation/resume first coined the term "user experience".

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Early developments in User Experience can be traced back to the machine age that includes the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The term user experience was brought to wider knowledge by Donald Norman in the mid-1990s. He never intended the term "user experience" to be applied only to the affective aspects of usage. A review of his earlier work suggests that the term "user experience" was used to signal a shift to include affective factors, along with the pre-requisite behavioral concerns, which had been traditionally considered in the field. Many usability practitioners continue to research and attend to affective factors associated with end-users, and have been doing so for years, long before the term "user experience" was introduced in the mid-1990s.

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What's that shiny new buzzword you are talking about?

[Silhouette]

What's that shiny new buzzword you are talking about?

Just to be clear, it's not the term "user experience" itself that I object to, so much as people making artificial distinctions between UI and UX. Using UX instead of UI to try to sound more qualified or authoritative most certainly does qualify as a buzzword, and it most certainly is a relatively recent and IMNSHO undesirable trend. I have never seen an expert of the standing of Don Norman claiming that UI is limited to no more than design or aesthetics, as the comment I replied to claimed.