A bit cynical: UI design is the older term for UX design. New kids on the block disliked the ugly, annoying designs they were seeing, so they decided that, by renaming the discipline, they would produce designs less ugly and annoying. In the future, this will happen again, and UX (and the letter X generally) will be disparaged as very old-fashioned and uncool. This will always happen because it is the nature of disciplines to rebrand themselves as newbies think old-timers were stupider than they were. But also it is true that by rebranding an activity, there is an opportunity to re-educate the world on why what you do matters.
More serious: UX was an attempt to liberate users from the tyranny of cognitive psychologists, who themselves were trying to liberate users from the tyranny of programmers. UX has sometimes been successful in doing so, but other times it has only meant subjecting users to the tyranny of graphic designers.
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At the end of the day, what I want--no matter what their job title may be--are designers who know how to work with their materials and who care about the people whose lives they are interfering with.
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