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UI Design

The distinction between UX Design and UI Design can be confusing. UX Design focuses on the totality of your user’s experience, including other considerations such as overall structure, screenflow, and timing. UI Design comprises ONLY the aesthetic qualities of your software product: Strictly style-related questions of color, font, imagery, and layout. So it can be useful to say UI Design is ENCOMPASSED by UX Design.

Does this mean your UX Designer is necessarily doing the UI Design? No. Sometimes there is specialization, when a dedicated Visual Designer handles your software’s look-and-feel. Other times there is a legacy aesthetic your UX Designer INHERITS. Which means for the sake of consistency, when adding features to existing software, for example, she must adhere to a color palette and style guide she herself had no hand in creating.

Why explain all this here? Two reasons. First, so you’ll know what I mean when I say the below designs were created entirely myself and so you won’t need to wonder why I bother mentioning it. Second, to orient you again to the fact that there ARE examples of UX Design elsewhere on this site for which specialization and/or legacy considerations were in play. Be assured, I will always call out such examples.

All UI Design examples appearing below were created, in their entirety, by myself — from sketch to pixel-perfect comp.

Product Design (2025)

Mature visual design offered as perhaps the smallest part of a mammoth undertaking I spearheaded to avail users of this firm’s many exquisitely complex capabilities via one turnkey SaaS — as opposed to separate, specialized stacks. A few months prior, they had undergone a complete re-brand, including a new logo and color palette. Together with its child screens, the below design invokes nearly every color of that new palette in creative and useful ways. Care to play with the prototype yourself? Try “importing” virtual data. Or read about this project →

User Interface designed, in its entirety, by Erik Gloor in 2025. View clickable prototype. Learn more about the overall project.

Product Design (2024)

Proof that niche and arcane enterprise software needn’t be ugly by definition. This UI powerfully but subtly enforces a hierarchy of prominence with layout, color, contrast, and progressive reveal. By sticking to classic Web-site layouts and components, what could otherwise be an entirely overwhelming firehose of information is transformed into the elegant and familiar. Intended for doctors to use in curation of patient medical issues, we tested this design with physicians until it received nothing but praise. Learn more about this project →

User Interface Design created, in its entirety, by Erik Gloor in 2023. View clickable prototype. Learn more about the overall project.

Redesign (2021)

Together with Moody’s and S&P, Fitch Ratings is one of the three major credit rating agencies that provide assessments of the creditworthiness of various entities, including governments, corporations, and financial institutions. Their subdivision, Fitch Solutions, ran their research platform in 2019 when I joined. This platform, FitchConnect, had plenty of capability to offer if its subscribers could ever figure out how to use it. Learn how I stopped the bleeding and helped double subscriptions in two years by overhauling its user experience →

Proof of Concept (2019)

Sophisticated and welcoming. With just the occasional note of whimsy. These were my goals for the design of this look-and-feel I produced for a native mobile application (for both Android and iOS) serving the multi-family housing market. The notes of green are intended to appeal to upscale and environmentally-conscious urbanites. Adheres to design standards described by Material Design. Learn more about this project →

Redesign (2017)

This is my radical upgrade to an employer's legacy aesthetic that I created for a product I was designing the entire UX of. When we tested this look-and-feel against the same page with the old look applied, users preferred this design four to one.

User Interface Design created, in its entirety, by Erik Gloor in 2017.

Proof of Concept (2007)

Obviously a layout more appropriate to the year it was created (2007), I intended this moodboard to convey an upbeat sense of balance and serendipity. I designed every single aspect of this aesthetic. The color scheme, the logo, the layout, the illustrations, and the imagery were all my original designs or choices. I additionally veered into content by writing the wry verbiage in the banner ( just under the navigation ).