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UI, where I stands for "interface" just like in HCI, used to mean all those things.

But in the industry the focus turned to aesthetics, so a new term was invented to differentiate between focusing on the entire interface ("experience") vs just the look.

Just like "design" encompasses all of it, but we add qualifiers to ensure it's not misunderstood for "pretty".

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And that has happened again. Changing the colours is "improving UX".

Thing is: changing the colours _could_ be improving the UX.

Eg I'm colourblind, and a careful revision of a colourscheme can make my life easier. (Though I would suggest also using other attributes to differentiate like size, placement, texture, saturation, brightness etc.)

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