“You never get a second chance to make a first impression” that’s how the saying goes. This applies to interacting with new people and when users experience your application for the first time. Research shows that it takes 50 milliseconds for users to decide whether they are going to stay on your app or leave.

As designers, our final goal is to make great products for the end user. This is why our collaboration with developers is paramount in every product we build.  We come up with a product’s concept. Create mockups and prototypes. Then hand over the final design to developers to get the project live. In this scenario,

Launching a successful digital product takes a lot of effort. Working hard, however, does not ensure that users will adopt your product.  The truth is users may resign from your product because you haven’t tested the product before release.  If you skipped creating an advanced, fully functional prototype and decided to go with a low-fidelity

Even the best ideas can’t guarantee success. No matter how certain you are about a new concept, the only way to create a good product is by getting real feedback and building upon it. Here are our tips that will help you make the most out of your user testing.

Some sites look good and some sites function well, but there are some interactive websites that do both with an extra sense of magic. These websites engage us on a deeper level, command our attention, and take root in our imagination. They draw us into their world and make us forget our own — if

Open source projects provide a unique way to work collaboratively with other people and learn through teamwork. It’s not rocket science, but it’s safe to say that a lot goes into choosing the right open source project in the React ecosystem.  So, for anyone looking to take up on a challenge and commit, we’ve made

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.

10 worst Design Failures of All time. Google Wave, Macintosh TV, Windows Mobile, Windows 8 shutdown system…to mention few. Design failures will give you a lesson

Building a UI component library makes it so much easier for your team to create designs that work well, conform to your brand’s style guide, and pass their work on to the developers who ultimately code products and release them to the world. In the long run, a UI component library saves more time and

Many companies, such as Airbnb and Uber, have already switched to using a unique design system of their own. Constant innovation within the industry is an essential aspect of setting a brand apart from the competition and improving the user experience, especially for brands that operate on a global scale. Thanks to making the most

HTML line spacing — the vertical space between two lines of text within a paragraph — isn’t the most exciting thing in the UX design world, but it matters more than you think. This styling element involves Experience Strategy and Interaction Design — two of the four UX design quadrants used to create an incredible

We’ve recently released our Merge-powered integration with Storybook that allows you to bring Storybook components to UXPin editor and design with them, keeping all the interactions available in Storybook. It helps break down the design and development silos and finally, let product teams use the single source of truth.  It’s the second integration (we also

Discover potential usability problems in your app or website with heuristic evaluation  Heuristic evaluation is the review of a user interface based on a set of usability principles. It helps surface usability problems throughout the design process and can save countless hours of development time by fixing usability issues before they go live. A formal

Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about our game-changing Storybook integration, which helps designers and developers break the silos and improve the UI consistency by using code components when building prototypes. Based on our Merge technology, the integration lets you harvest the power of code, use it to build advanced prototypes faster and massively

Design thinking is a collaborative, iterative process that, over time, delivers design solutions based on human feedback. The concept combines the problem-solving basis of design with empathy for the end-user. Design thinking tools are used to facilitate this evolutionary process. Before we take a close look at some of the best design thinking tools on