Designers use carousels to showcase multiple pieces of content in a compact, engaging way without overwhelming users. Carousels allow them to highlight key content—such as promotions, product images, or featured stories—while saving screen space. Read about carousels in UI design, when not to use them, and how to create them in UXPin. UXPin makes it
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What is a Sitemap in UX?
A sitemap in UX is more than just a visual representation of a website’s structure; it’s a foundational tool that helps designers and developers at enterprise-level organizations plan and optimize the user journey from the ground up. Sitemaps play a critical role in ensuring that complex sites or applications are intuitive, efficient, and aligned with
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Get our Latest eBook – Interaction Design Patterns
We’re excited to introduce our latest eBook, a comprehensive guide for designers and developers looking to master interaction design patterns in UXPin. This free resource will help you design and reuse essential interaction patterns, with clear guidance on the best practices, tools, and techniques that make these patterns effective. Here’s a closer look at why
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Tailwind Design System – How to Start
To build a Tailwind Design System in UXPin, begin by leveraging the built-in Tailwind UI library, customizing foundational components for brand alignment. Use UXPin’s AI Component Creator for unique elements, set global and local themes for consistent styling, and add icons with Heroicons and patterns with Hero Patterns. Document each component to maintain accessibility and
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Figma Tailwind vs UXPin Tailwind – Best Tailwind Kits
Tailwind CSS has transformed web design by simplifying styling with utility-first classes. Designers are increasingly looking for ways to integrate Tailwind directly into their design tools to streamline workflows. Here, we’ll explore the different ways Figma and UXPin handle Tailwind CSS and how each tool fits into design and development processes. Bring your Tailwind components
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UX Design Principles for 2024
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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Design System Adoption – 3-Step Strategy
“The success of a design system hinges on its adoption. Until you have users using your product, it’s not successful.” – Amber Jabeen. A while back, UXPin hosted Amber Jabeen, DesignOps Director at Delivery Hero MENA (talabat), for a webinar titled: Enterprise Design System – How to Build and Scale. This article covers the second
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What is a CRUD App?
A CRUD app is an application that performs the basic operations of Create, Read, Update, and Delete on data. That’s why it’s abbreviated into CRUD. The four operations represent the fundamental actions that can be performed on most database management systems and are essential for managing data within an application. CRUD operations are most commonly
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How to Build Prototypes That Talk to Your Products
We truly live in the future. One in which we can power our home lights, sound systems or even security with our voices or from a phone app while miles away. Much like the one predicted in the cult classic, Back to the Future: You’re now able to build such prototypes in UXPin! Until
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Prototype vs Final Product — A Deep-Dive
A prototype is a draft or blueprint to explore and refine ideas, while the final product is the completed, fully functional version ready for release. Prototypes and final products serve distinct roles, helping teams move from ideas to a completed, user-ready solution. ~Let’s explore similarities and differences between prototypes vs final products. By leveraging real
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Product Designer vs Product Manager – Key Differences
Successful products aren’t just built—they’re designed and managed with precision and collaboration. Two of the most crucial roles in this process are the product designer and the product manager. While both professionals work toward a common goal of delivering a product that meets user needs and drives business value, their roles, skill sets, and day-to-day
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UI Grids – All You Need to Know
UI grid systems are essential for responsive design, ensuring layouts adapt seamlessly to various screen sizes and resolutions. Designers use grid systems to create fluid layouts that maintain consistency and visual hierarchy, providing an optimal user experience across multiple devices such as desktops, tablets, and mobile phones. Designers can create three UI grid types, including
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How to Do a Service Safari in 5 Easy Steps
A service safari allows design teams better to understand competitors, users, and their own product. This service experience offers valuable insights for very little investment, making it an essential tool during the early stages of the design thinking process. This article looks at the pros and cons of a service safari, how to plan and
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Django vs Laravel – Which is the Best Backend in 2024?
Django and Laravel are two popular web frameworks used for building web applications, each with its own set of features, benefits, and trade-offs. Django is built using Python while Laravel is created with PHP. Python is known for its readability and simplicity, which often makes Django easier to learn for beginners. Laravel, on the other
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How Does React Work?
React is a JavaScript library used for building user interfaces, especially for single-page applications where the user interacts with the web page without requiring a full page reload. Developed and maintained by Facebook, React has become popular for its declarative approach to building UI components and its efficient rendering through a virtual DOM (Document Object
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