Without the right app design steps in place, it’s like rolling a dice and wishing for a six. Sure, the app you unleash into the marketplace may be a hit. More likely, it risks sinking without a trace because it didn’t appeal to the target audience and didn’t work the way it should. Effective mobile
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What Is a Mockup — The Final Layer of UI Design
Designing UI mockups is a critical part of the design process. They’re a visual representation or screenshot of how the final website or product will look. It’s the first time designers get to see their ideas brought to life with color, typography, and content. By the end of this article, you’ll understand what a UI
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Tradeoff Between Time and Robust Prototypes? You Can Have Both!
Prototyping is challenging for designers using image-based design tools. These static mockups and prototypes never achieve the fidelity and functionality required to get accurate feedback from testing and stakeholders. Designers often have to use several tools throughout the design process; one for design, one for prototyping, and another for testing. This workflow is not only
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An Introduction to the Design Iteration Process
What Is Design Iteration? Design iteration is the repeatable process of improving a product (or part of a product) in relatively short but regular bursts, otherwise known as ‘design iterations’. These design iterations can consist of high-fidelity prototypes, mid-fidelity wireframes, low-fidelity sketches, or even simple diagrams such as sitemaps. Design iteration drives the overall design
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Design Sprints – Validate Your Hypothesis Within 5 Days
Design sprints have become common strategies for companies to solve big problems fast! Developed by ex-Googler Jake Knapp, the design sprint methodology is about prototyping and testing a product in just five days. Prototype and test your design sprint product with UXPin. Built-in design libraries allow you to drag-and-drop components to quickly build high-fidelity mockups
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How to Improve Feedback Loops in Design Process
Key Takeaways Feedback loops have three stages, that is action, effect, and feedback. They are used to understand users, validate design ideas, build information architecture, as well as improve usability. Feedback loops solve problems and answer questions, but they can be either positive (increase an input action) or negative (decrease an input action). Understanding feedback
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Improve Your Prototyping Skills with These Features
The prototyping and testing phase is always a challenge for UX designers. Without the fidelity and functionality of code, image-based prototypes don’t produce accurate results during usability testing. They often result in design drift and friction with devs during the design handoff. With code-based design tools like UXPin, that’s no longer the case. Designers can
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Join “Design Value Conference” & Learn from PayPal, SiriusXM, Uber Eats’ Leaders
Design is much more than creating the look and feel of a product, isn’t it? It has a real impact on the people, processes, and business. We gathered top specialists who have influenced the way things are run in their companies to tell you their stories. It’s all for free! Sign up and join us
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19 Best Practices for Faster UI Mockups
Web Designer Steven Snell offers practical tips for faster and cleaner UI mockups.
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Looking for Inspiration: Where to Get Ideas When You’re Experiencing a Designer’s Block
This is a guest post written by Shuffle.dev. Head on to their site to browse through the catalog of categorized UI components and get inspired. Let’s see what they say about eliminating writer’s block. All of us have experienced designer’s block at some point. It’s not a pleasant place to be in, but don’t worry,
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Top React Component Libraries
Modern websites and apps rely on front-end frameworks to develop, maintain, and scale user interfaces. React’s Javascript library is arguably the most popular front-end framework with many component libraries to build digital products. We’re going to explore the top React libraries and how to choose the right one for your next project. With UXPin Merge,
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Sustainable Web Design: Can You Lower Design’s Environmental Impact?
Sustainable web design is a growing movement as organizations look for every opportunity to reduce emissions and minimize their carbon footprint. If you follow responsive web design and mobile-first practices, you’re already on the way to reducing your environmental impact with greener digital products. According to a March 2020 BBC article, Why your internet habits
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Try MUI library in UXPin – Design Faster
MUI is one of the top React component libraries that help front-end developers and designers create consistent user interfaces for their products. It contains a collection of ready-made building blocks that significantly speeds up prototyping. If you want to take the MUI for a test ride, you can try MUI Core 5 with UXPin Merge.
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Design System Accessibility: Check What You Need to Know
An accessible design system makes it easier for designers to create products that don’t discriminate users with disabilities. Design a system that is accessible in the first place, test it with available tools, and audit it from time to time to ensure it fits the standards. Let’s see how. Design system accessibility is the first
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7 Advanced Prototyping Features That Help You Build Better Prototypes
The quality and fidelity of your prototypes can significantly impact the design process and the final product. With advanced prototypes (that look and function like the final product), UX designers can get better results from usability testing and fix any issues before they get to the design handoff. The problem? Most leading vector-based design tools
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