Design teams understand the value of a design system. But creating and maintaining a design system can be time-consuming and costly—meaning you’re less likely to get buy-in from management and stakeholders without presenting metrics proving a design system’s value. But how do designers quantify design system metrics to: We’re going to explore the benefits of
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There are many important UX design principles organizations must consider when building products. These UX principles complement the design thinking process, placing the user at the center of all decision-making. This article looks at 16 UX design principles organizations can use to build better products. UXPin’s advanced prototyping and testing features allow design teams to
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It’s no secret that consumers are becoming increasingly demanding when it comes to the services they pay for. In fact, a recent study by Microsoft reveals that 55% of respondents expect to see better CX year over year. The numbers are even higher when we look at customers under 34 and stands at 70%. Now,
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White label design has emerged as a popular strategy for many design and development agencies. White labeling allows agencies to build a single product that multiple companies can buy and rebrand. It costs agencies a lot of time and resources to design and engineer tools, apps, and websites. So, building white label products is significantly
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Bringing a new product to market is hard. The scary statistic is that 95% of new products fail despite all the time, effort, and resources invested to bring these ideas to life. But that shouldn’t discourage you from trying though, because when you get it right, you can transform your industry and build a business
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ResearchOps is an emerging practice in the UX space. Companies have realized the importance of effective user research to create products that best serve the customer. Traditionally, user research was part of a UX designer’s role, but companies are now dedicating entire teams to manage user research, including the people, tools, processes, and operations. ResearchOps
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Since the very beginning of digital product design, the default way of designing user interfaces has been image-based. Designers have been drawing different states of the mobile app or web designs using graphic design tools – GIMP, Fireworks, Sketch, or now Figma, Invision, Adobe XD (which you can in Adobe Creative Cloud) – and then
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The gap between designers and developers often slows workflows and makes it harder to bring products to market. Without strong collaboration between your design and development product teams, you will likely find that your company has to correct a lot of mistakes before you can finalize a product and release it to consumers. You don’t
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“Design is a process. An intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients,” — Henry Dreyfuss, design pioneer. Collaborative design has helped people make some of the greatest products in modern history. Bill Gates and Paul Allen collaborated to build Microsoft, the world’s largest software company and Windows innovator. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak needed each
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There is much more to UX writing than words alone. The words in your product should be focused on the user, and every user brings a lot to the table. Each individual comes with prejudices and attitudes, expectations and cognitive limitations. Although it may not seem like it at first, UX writing has a lot
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In the world of mobile app development, prototypes mean introductory versions of concepts or ideas. App developers or entrepreneurs typically draw upon prototypes as a means of establishing the genuine versions of their app before actually investing time and money developing it. If you have an app idea, then it may be in your greatest
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Agile is the most common methodology for software product development today. And, it makes sense. In the waterfall days, designers and developers followed requirements that were hundreds of pages long. Products were fully designed, and then fully developed. When the product was eventually released, there was no time to go back and fix what didn’t
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Just when you thought your prototypes couldn’t gain more superpowers, we added another to your prototyping utility belt: Expressions. Bring the power of JavaScript functions to your designs. Now you can power up your prototype in a programmatic way. Gone are the days of design tools not having math functions! We just leveled up with
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The right data, in the right place, in no time. Surprise! Now you can upload real data into your prototypes with our new Data feature. No more spending hours, even days, mocking up data for your designs. You’re welcome. Boy, are we excited to share this one with you. You should know that this new
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How creating Design Systems help solve problems every designer and developer face when scaling up. Not long ago, our CEO, Marcin Treder, wrote a series of posts describing his work in helping to build UXPin’s internal design system. After interviewing leaders in the industry, he concluded that a lack of design consistency was clearly a
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