What is a User Interface?
A user interface, or UI, is the point of interaction between a user and a software or digital device. You can think of it as the point through which a human or non-human entity, like a robot or automated system, controls a device, machine, or software.
There are different types of user interfaces, including:
- Command line interface
- Menu-driven interface
- Form-based interface
- Touch-based interface
- Voice user interface
- Virtual reality interface
- Gesture-based interface
- Graphical user interface
Most software programs make use of the graphical user interface (GUI). This type of user interface contains buttons, icons, indicators, and several other elements that allow the user to give instructions to the software For example, the WordPress admin dashboard is a graphical user interface.
