#2141: UI vs UX

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Two underlined headings are above two columns of text with seven lines. The left "symbol" (labelled "Designer") is explained by the text to the right (labelled "What they are responsible for").]

UI: Elements of the interface that the user encounters

UX: The user's experience of using the interface to achieve goals

UZ: The psychological roots of the user's motivation for seeking out the interaction

Uα: The user's self-actualization

UΩ: The arc of the user's life

U∞: Life's experience of time

U⬤: The arc of the moral universe


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

U[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.

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