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Changing the Conversation about Product Management vs. UX

The road into Product Management is varied; you could be a business analyst, an engineer or in marketing before you get there. But its the UX designer that might find their new role to be most like their old one, albeit with some new functions and limitations. Melissa Perri experienced this confusion as she jumped from UX and Product Management jobs trying to find where she best fit. In asking how these two roles can work together in a team, she proposes that we think less about dividing functions between them and instead think about how they can share functions when necessary.

What’s the Difference between User Interface (UI) Design and User Experience (UX) Design?

These two practices are distinctly different but how so is debatable. You could simply state that UI design concerns how a screen and its elements on a screen look, whereas UX design concerns how the user goes about interacting with the screens. To understand the distinctions more deeply Spencer Lanoue looks at how those who first coined the terms described the practices. And talks to several modern thought leaders in the space.