What is difference between Design and Interface.

[pradip030384]

What is difference between Design and Interface.

[Pet]

The design is everything from the fonts used, color scheme, and how it is all arranged to be pleasing to the eye. Interface is how someone interacts with whatever they are doing.

[Lewk]

What pet said

Yeah a design is how it looks, an interface is how its used, for example...

The design would be the CSS and the interface the HTML. put the two together and you have a website!

[Pet]

The design would be the CSS and the interface the HTML. put the two together and you have a website!

That is not entirely accurate. I can do many visual effects in html, and some code in css that determines how the website will work.

The best way to say it is, design is how it will look, and interface is how it will work.

[Lewk]

That is not entirely accurate. I can do many visual effects in html, and some code in css that determines how the website will work.

The best way to say it is, design is how it will look, and interface is how it will work.

Well yes, but mainly thats how the CSS and HTML are used. from my knowledge, you can make a site entirely out of CSS ? Im not overly sure. Same with just HTML.

[joshmedici]

I think both are design. You design an interface before actually putting it to use. But you need an interface to create a design.

I think design comes first in both cases. If you're talking about designing only, well it is the layout, colors, fonts, spacing, etc. And the interface is the way you arrange such layout so as to enable good use of the design and whatever the interface is for.

But for an interface to be designed you need another interface to facilitate the means in which your design will be implemented into such interface.

And now I've confused myself even more.

[carrotderek]

from my knowledge, you can make a site entirely out of CSS ? Im not overly sure. Same with just HTML.

No you can't create a website using just CSS. In the past, styling in HTML became too complex and difficult to write and maintain. CSS evolved so it would separate presentation from content, making it less complex, redundant and overall more flexible. I believe CSS has always been about presentation and has nothing to do with functionality, otherwise it'd be coupling. Which should be avoided.

With HTML today, all you have to do is write the most basic plaintext website and present it with CSS. That method is recognized by the W3C today to be the best method for HTML pages.

In my opinion, design and interface has always been the same thing. At least in the context of usability, you are designing an interface. When you say GUI, you are talking about what is displayed to the user, not the back-end. So interface shouldn't be about how it works.

A better way of thinking about it is Model-View-Controller (MVC), a software engineering architectural pattern. The View is the user interface, what is displayed to the user. The Model is the the data and the rules applied to the data. The Controller talks to the Model based on what inputs are given.

MVC is implemented in alot of frameworks. Adobe Flex and Java Swing for GUI frameworks. Django and Ruby on Rails for web frameworks. etc. etc.