The difference between sympathy and empathy in UX

“Listen to understand, not respond.”

Zeba Dalal
UX Collective
Published in
4 min readJul 12, 2021

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Sympathy vs. Empathy in UX — Zeba Dalal
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User experience (UX) in simple words, is the interaction a person has with the products and services of a company. Often confused with User Interface (UI), UX is a much wider concept. The overall experience of a user doesn’t only depend on the interface but it is one of the subsets of UX.

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