UX design refers to the term “user experience design”, while UI stands for “user interface design”. Both elements are crucial to a product and work closely together. But despite their professional relationship, the roles themselves are quite different, referring to very different aspects of the product development process and the design discipline.

Many UX designers, developers, and entrepreneurs take pride in how hard it was to solve hard challenges. I don’t. I hope to convince you not to either. I’m known for enjoying the process of solving impossible problems, but the way I do it is not obvious.