What is difference between Interaction design, Visual Design, Web design, UX design, UI design, UI development?

Question

What is difference between Interaction design, Visual Design, Web design, UX design, UI design, UI development?

BTB, link found below answered for UI Vs UX.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334496/difference-between-ui-and-ux

Solution 1

Maybe just a shorter version:

• Graphic/Visual Design: How it looks
• Information Architecture/Design: How it's organized
• UI Design: How it works before I touch it
• Interaction Design: How it works after I touch it
• Web Design: How it works in a browser
• UX Design: How I feel about it
• Development: Actual coding

Solution 2

here is my take, hopefully it helps./

first of all lets clarify design and development

design is a conceptual work, production of a concept for a solution, a process of elimination of things that you think, feel and believe do not fit as a solution to your intended goal

development is a production of finalized specification/idea (at least in theory) or something that makes sense and close to what you are looking for (although in many cases it is not like that), basically a conversion of your design/idea into working end product

note that both things can and do in most cases coexist side by side in production of the product

now that this is out of way, visual, web, ux, ui are just sub categories of a design notion, each although based on design principal also have their own sub universes and their own sub rules and sub practices that apply directly to their respective subcategories and in many cases can propagate seemingly from one sub category to another.

from my understanding and what i have learned over the years,

interaction design (none specific to field) - concept/understanding how one/individual interacts with an entity and how to design the process of interaction of that individual with the entity. that entity can be anything you pick it to be, for example your car, or your toaster, web browser and website that you view in a browser.

visual design (none specific to field) - concept/understanding of aesthetic appeal and impact of an entity with which individual interacts/looks at

web design (field specific) - concept/understanding of an idea that is a technology(s) specific and includes aspects of multiple design concepts such as but not limited to: interaction design, visual design, user experience design, user interface design and so on

user experience design (none specific to field) - concept of designing user experience, which in turn includes visual design and interaction design plus the limitations of the field in which such design work is happening

user interface (some what specific to field) - concept of designing an interface through which user can interact with the product, gui in soft/web app or an steering wheel in a car

user interface development (none specific to field) - is a process of converting user interface design concept into functioning interface that creates physical connection between individual and product.

hope this helps

Solution 3

User Experience Design - how the user thinks and feels
Information Architecture - how the system is organized
User Interface Design - how the content is organized
Interaction Design - how the user and device act and react
Visual Design - how it looks

Some or all of the above disciplines are part of the following fields:
Architecture, when related to buildings
Interior design, when related to internal spaces
Industrial design, when related to tangible objects
Graphic design, when related to text and images
Application design, when related to digital I/O
Web design, when related to the browser

Comments

[Ashith]

I would go with "how it looks while I touch it" or perhaps "how it feels to touch it" as far as interaction design. But then that gets pretty close to your def for UX.

[rajakvk]

thanks for your time. Of course I'm not naive. But not clear about those phrases exactly. Anyway, I will read what you suggest and confirm about it here. :-)

[manafi]

I would say interaction design is specific to the field of software. Bill Moggridge coined the term while working on the first laptop. He realized that "the program it ran once he opened the thing was just as engrossing as the object itself, and also needed to be designed." kickerstudio.com/blog/2009/03/ive-been-objectified

[j b]

I disagree with "development". I think "programming" is "actual coding", "development" is more than that, it's about "building or improving a product" through all or part of its lifecycle. IMO a good development process should include IA, UI, UX, IxD AND coding.

[Glen Lipka]

in his question it said UI Development. I took a literal interpretation.

[Zizouz212]

Thanks for answering and giving your opinion, but having you thought if this answers the question (what's the difference between the types of design listed)?

[les]

Original poster (OP) asks for the difference. Perhaps you can elaborate on some specifics of the (5) five types of design listed by the OP.

[Michael D]

This is the best explanation of the differences I came across so far.