What Japanese word for "user experience" or UX in IT field?


My team is developing a app for mobile. I want to tell to customer about the
speed of some APIs are very slow. So it is not good for **User Experience**
(UX) How to say it in Japanese?




I assume you're asking here, because UX is not a simple "word" in the
dictionary. There currently is no Japanese word equivalent with such context.
Thus, UX is called "UX" in Japanese. You may want to say "User Experience"
when verbally communicating.

This is interesting, because the mobility industry has created 乗り心地 (passenger
comfort), a beautiful word to express their UX. But despite developing great
video games and electronic applications for long, Japan still has not
developed their own word to express UX.

But this may not be the case in future:

* * *

"API is slow" is technically wrong, as the slowness is caused by connection,
middleware, etc.

  * "API" is API.

  * "Middleware" is middleware.

  * "Connection" is 回線 (as in the "internet connection").

Japanese word for 回線 exists, because we have been using (telephone)
connections for a long time. So in the future, there might be new Japanese
word to represent "UX".

* * *

Although there is no perfect match for the word, in essence it may be
described as:

  * 使い心地

or/and

  * 使い勝手

These words are common enough that you may research on your own. Tech savvy
people may say "UX is different from 使い心地・使い勝手" which is true, but I consider
it close enough. After all, when someone asks "what does UX mean?" those are
the words we tend to use for explanation.

* * *

**EDIT**

For further research or rationale, I recommend to consult the appropriate
source, which is not a dictionary but an industry standard public
specification/standards - JIS Z 8521 or 8531. This is because UX is still
somewhere between a word and a term. There are many terms like UX causing the
same debate: Robust design is 堅牢設計 or ロバストデザイン? Ergonomics is 人間工学 or エルゴノミクス?
It's an interesting subject.




I assume you're asking here, because UX is not a simple "word" in the
dictionary. There currently is no Japanese word equivalent with such context.
Thus, UX is called "UX" in Japanese. You may want to say "User Experience"
when verbally communicating.

This is interesting, because the mobility industry has created 乗り心地 (passenger
comfort), a beautiful word to express their UX. But despite developing great
video games and electronic applications for long, Japan still has not
developed their own word to express UX.

But this may not be the case in future:

* * *

"API is slow" is technically wrong, as the slowness is caused by connection,
middleware, etc.

  * "API" is API.

  * "Middleware" is middleware.

  * "Connection" is 回線 (as in the "internet connection").

Japanese word for 回線 exists, because we have been using (telephone)
connections for a long time. So in the future, there might be new Japanese
word to represent "UX".

* * *

Although there is no perfect match for the word, in essence it may be
described as:

  * 使い心地

or/and

  * 使い勝手

These words are common enough that you may research on your own. Tech savvy
people may say "UX is different from 使い心地・使い勝手" which is true, but I consider
it close enough. After all, when someone asks "what does UX mean?" those are
the words we tend to use for explanation.

* * *

**EDIT**

For further research or rationale, I recommend to consult the appropriate
source, which is not a dictionary but an industry standard public
specification/standards - JIS Z 8521 or 8531. This is because UX is still
somewhere between a word and a term. There are many terms like UX causing the
same debate: Robust design is 堅牢設計 or ロバストデザイン? Ergonomics is 人間工学 or エルゴノミクス?
It's an interesting subject.

