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For me, when some people say "design" they mean "style". For example, someone works in the UI layer? That's the visual style of the application. I think in the

For me, when some people say "design" they mean "style". For example, someone works in the UI layer? That's the visual style of the application. I think in the early days of the web, "design" was co-opted from traditional print graphic designers as a way to draw a distinction from then; a web designer. However, I think its much more important to emphasize the capital D Design that occurs in software development, as in your cake example. So I would adjust your example as such: "visual style is like the strawberries on the cake, Design is the recipe. UX is how the cake tastes i.e. the culmination of Design and attention to detail during the assembly process"

eflowers 13y ago
That's a good way of putting it. I would add that someone, a UX role perhaps, also has to have researched/figured out the answers to "A cake for who?" "What is the occasion?" "How big does this cake have to scale?" "Do we know if this certain bride has any certain preferences" "Wait how did we determine this is a wedding cake?" "My bad, it's a birthday party. But this was a pretty dope wedding cake we built don't you think? Tastes great!" "But it was for a 6 year old boy's birthday" "Look we don't have time to muck about with look and feel. It's a cake. It's a birthday, just fucking ship it." =D