What is the Role of the UI in Software Industry?

Now a days, UI (User Interface) has lot of demand in the IT Industry.

Software Development work:

Just think of the Project structure. Take Waterfall model as an example and find out where UI is required.

Analysis ----> Design----> Coding -----> Testing ------> Implementation.

So Management will be using UI for Design phase and nothing more than that..

Web Designing:

If thats a traditional Web design work then we have a major role here, Like Designing the Mockups once approve we proceed with the development work.

Web Development:

If you take Javascript/AJAX development work, we will be having major role there as a web developer to prepare the UI Mockups for the project and once it got approved we can go with the development phase.

If you go through all the above we have 2 significant roles. They are
1) Web Designer
2) Web developer

Web designer should has complete exposure to the mockup creation, creating UI's , Interfaces, and other stuff such as Logos, vector shapes, banners etc.

2) Web developer is another kind where in he should be capable of dealing with all types of web development environment tools such as Dreamweaver, Javascript, XML, AJAX, PHP, CGI, Flash, Actionscript, Flex and should have complete knowledge on these tools.

These days Web developer has a high demand when compared to web designer. Because if you see the no. of people required for designing and development obviously we require 1 or 2 designers and more no. of developers for a project.

So Web developer has better options than a web designer.

Do you want to know what are the better options for a Web developer? Wait for the next post... :)

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