Glossary
With the help of the UX community, we hope to build an extensive glossary of terms relating to user experience.
What Is User Experience?
- user experience
Encompasses all aspects of a digital product that users experience directly—and perceive, learn, and use—including its form, behavior, and content. Learnability, usability, usefulness, and aesthetic appeal are key factors in users' experience of a product.—Pabini Gabriel-Petit
- user experience design
User experience design takes a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to the design of user interfaces for digital products. It integrates interaction design, industrial design, information architecture, visual interface design, instructional design, and user-centered design, ensuring coherence and consistency across all of these design dimensions. User experience design defines a product's form, behavior, and content.—Pabini Gabriel-Petit
- UX
Acronym—Our favorite acronym for user experience.
