Wireframing is a crucial part of the design process, where designers typically complete most of the work, including information architecture, layout, structure, identifying key navigational elements, and screen transitions. The more work designers complete during wireframing, the less they do during the mockup and high-fidelity prototyping phases, thus streamlining the design process. UXPin features built-in
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How to Write a Good Design Brief? [+ Templates]
A design brief is crucial in guiding the design process toward a successful outcome where designers meet client/stakeholder expectations. A good design brief can avoid costly scope creep, missed deadlines, poor communication, and inferior results. Enhance your design projects with the world’s most advanced collaborative design tool. Create high-fidelity prototypes that look and feel like
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Product Redesign — How to Make it Work
A product redesign is an opportunity to improve many aspects of a digital product, most importantly, its user experience, visual design, technical bugs, and business value. Product teams can also extend the product’s lifecycle by making it more relevant and up-to-date with modern trends. Improve product redesign scope and achieve significantly better results with component-driven
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What is Continuous Discovery and How to Get Started?
If you’ve ever heard about continuous discovery (CD), then high chances are you associate it with the work of product managers. However, this agile approach to research and project refinement isn’t confined to product people work only. It’s also a critical part of how design teams shape products and create value. CD offers a method
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Taming Scope Creep in Product Design
Scope creep is a common issue in UX design projects. By proactively preventing scope creep, UX designers can ensure that their projects are completed on time and within budget. Establishing clear goals and objectives, creating a design brief, encouraging collaboration, planning for the unexpected, and creating a system of governance are all effective ways project
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Design Teams Goals and How to Set Them [With Examples]
Any design team needs to know exactly what they’re working towards. Without this, it can be easy to lose focus on the critical aims and goals of their work and projects. Design team goals are a great way to ensure your team is on track to completing the right tasks and to help productivity and
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Cross-Platform Experience – An In-Depth Guide for Product Designers
With an ever-growing list of devices, operating systems, and technologies, cross-platform experience design is an essential component of the product development process. Many organizations have dedicated teams for iOS, Android, Windows, etc., to ensure products meet platform-specific requirements and user expectations. Create seamless cross-platform customer experiences with the world’s most advanced UX design tool. Sign
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Customer Experience vs. User Experience – Why the Difference Matters
Don Norman, the founder of the Nielsen Norman Group and former Apple VP, coined the term user experience or UX in the 90s. Almost two decades later, Tony Hillson from Service Design in New Zealand came up with customer experience or CX. Many people incorrectly use CX and UX interchangeably, but these describe different levels
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Design Handoff Checklist – 47 Points that Will Guide You Through the Process
Is design handoff stresses you out? It won’t anymore. Let’s see the exact tasks you need to do to make design handoff better. Let’s explore! Design handoff doesn’t need to be point of friction between designers and engineers. Use UXPin Merge and bridge the gap between those teams by using a single source of truth.
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What is Content Design?
Content design has evolved to become a crucial role in the UX design process. Teams rely on content designers to ensure products deliver the highest quality content that meets user needs precisely when they need it. Do you struggle to build accurate prototypes as a content designer? Build fully functioning prototypes with UXPin Merge, the
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What is a Design Critique and How Can it Improve Your Designs?
Collecting feedback is an integral part of a product designer’s work – one which allows them to make sure that the product they’re designing is both intuitive and adds value to users’ lives. However, it’s not just about asking fellow designers, stakeholders, and developers for their opinions, per se. It’s about getting the most out
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What is Design Simplicity and How to Achieve it?
Design simplicity is a term companies use without truly understanding its meaning. As discussed in this article, simpler isn’t always better, and how designers apply simplicity can have positive and negative effects. This article defines what UX design simplicity is (and isn’t), some common misconceptions, and strategies for implementing its principles. Simplify your product design
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6 UX Security Tips for Product Designers
In the second quarter of 2022, internet users worldwide fell victim to around 52 million data privacy breaches. This clearly shows the importance of cybersecurity, and that the role of a UX designer goes beyond making apps user-friendly. It’s about finding balance between usability and security, which need to go hand in hand. In this
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Automotive UX UI Basics – Designing Car Interfaces
Automotive UX is one of the most rapidly evolving and exciting user experience disciplines. It requires designers to shift their thinking from keeping users engaged to designing for safety. This article explores the exciting world of automotive UX and six key challenges designers must overcome to deliver safe yet enjoyable driving experiences. Design, prototype, test,
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Design System Glossary – 34 Powerful Terms You Should Know
Design systems can be very confusing and complicated if you don’t fully understand the terminology associated with them. It’s important for designers and developers alike to be on the same page for the most effective communication efforts. For this reason, we have comprised some key terms along with associated applications and examples to provide a
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