Building component libraries can make UI development efficient and failure-proof. Some of the advantages of making a component library include: UXPin offers Storybook integration. Try it now to build interactive layouts of your app. Storybook for React React is a JavaScript library with plenty of benefits. We’ve posted about our appreciation for React features like:
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Design operations managers have become increasingly important as more companies turn to digital products that help them connect with customers and streamline processes. If your design team members work on several projects simultaneously, it makes sense to bring in someone who knows how to manage designers and developers. As a relatively new position, design operations
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The affinity diagram offers a framework for grouping information, be it data, user needs, opinions, insights, or other data types. Affinity diagrams are when you put each concept, idea, or thought onto a small piece of notepaper. Then, you group ideas by different categories to see what the affinity of the two ideas could be.
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Anything you can create in code, you can design with UXPin powered by Merge technology. Designing with code components can cut down your time to market and simplify the handoff between designers and devs. It’s all thanks to using the single source of truth and designing with production-ready components. We’ve recently featured two really cool
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More often than not, product development starts with a UX designer making a wireframe or a UX writer working on the text. The first step determines what happens after that. If your writers have wireframes full of lorem ipsum, they can try to create influential text for landing pages, blog posts, and other products. If
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UX research helps to test hypothesis you have about users prior to design. Sadly, not every UX design project starts with user research, and that’s because it takes a lot of time to recruit participants, run UX research projects, and sumamrize findings. Good research, nevertheless, ensures that your product team doesn’t build the wrong functionality
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That’s what Copywriters are for right? Content Strategists? Definitely! However, words are part of the user experience and at minimum, the first pass, belongs to UX Designers. Not only do clients appreciate seeing the first look of their product with copy that isn’t in Latin, but users appreciate it too. I’ve walked out of many
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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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What do you think of faster project turnarounds? How about consistency in all of your products? Does better UX and customer satisfaction sound good to you? This isn’t some new miracle product that’s available to buy — but you can build it yourself. Designs systems are sweeping the tech world right now, with advocates like Trello, Atlassian, Stacks, and Shopify (Check out
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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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You asked, we listened. UXPin just unleashed the mother of all Sketch plugins. Now you can get the most accurate specs and code snippets available on the market for all of your Sketch designs. And it works faster than ever. So, what’s the main reason for this update? Designers often work in Sketch and upload
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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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Practical advice for getting buy-in for design thinking. Based on real case study.
Peek inside the design process for the 2200-employee global enterprise.
A set of best practices created by Jason Culbertson (Design Manager at Airbnb) based on extensive interviews and experience.