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User experience

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈjuːzər ɪkˈspɪriəns/nounCore term

In software engineering, user experience means: How easily people reach their goals and how they feel when they use a product, service or website, from the first visit to getting help later.

In Turkish: kullanıcı deneyimi, UX

How it is used

Usually shortened to UX and said letter by letter. Heard in job titles (UX designer, UX researcher), in design reviews and in phrases like 'this hurts the user experience'. It covers the whole product, not only how the screens look.

Example sentences

  1. Adding two more form steps will hurt the user experience on mobile.

  2. We hired a consultant to review the user experience of our booking app.

Common collocations

  • improve the user experience
  • seamless user experience
  • user experience design
  • UX designer
  • componentA reusable, self-contained piece of a user interface, such as a button, modal or product card, with its own markup, styles and logic.
  • usabilityHow easily, quickly and successfully people can use a product to complete a task, and how satisfied they feel while doing it.
  • user-centered designAn approach that puts users' needs, goals and limits at the centre of every stage of design, using research and testing with real people to guide decisions.
  • user researchThe study of people who use or might use a product, through interviews, observation, surveys and tests, to understand their needs, behaviour and problems.

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