Striking a balance between innovation and usability is essential. However, many organizations fall into the costly overengineering trap, adding unnecessary complexities that diverge from user needs, often overshadowing the primary product purpose. Explore the signs your product is overengineered and the steps you can take to prevent this resource-hungry problem. Key takeaways: Reduce overengineering, front-end
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Storybook has become THE DevOps tool for developing and maintaining design systems. The platform’s excellent documentation, intuitive UI, built-in testing, and collaborative features make it the perfect tool for building and releasing components. Understanding how Storybook works can help designers collaborate with front-end devs better and leverage the platform’s features to improve prototyping and testing.
Storybook is a crucial tool in the context of building a UI component library. It simplifies the process of designing, sharing, and collaborating on UI components. Your team can easily showcase and test individual components, ensuring they adhere to your style guide and work seamlessly. This streamlines design handoff, enhancing the product development process. Key
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UX developers can play critical roles in product development. Oddly enough, some people in the industry don’t know what UX developers do. Many others confuse them with front-end developers and UI designers. The following article will give you a deeper understanding of what UX developers do and how they can help you build great products.
Both React Native and Flutter have received a lot of publicity lately. Both are frameworks that make it easier to build sites or apps, but one stands out above the other. Not all solutions work for everyone, so it’s important to research the best option for you. Today, we’re looking at React vs. Flutter, which
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Are you creating a React app or website? If you are, you can use real React components in prototyping. How to that? You will find an answer in this article. Key tools: Build React prototypes with your dev’s components coming from Git, Storybook, or npm. Try UXPin Merge and assemble stunning, production-ready layouts 10x faster.
HTML is a markup language while React is a JavaScript library. Both are used in front-end development and you might have heard about them while designing websites or web apps. Without further ado, let’s see what’s the difference between HTML and React. Key takeaways: Create React app design much faster with UXPin. Bring real React
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Most developers can create their first React apps rather quickly because they already have experience using JavaScript. Let’s see how the two are related, what you need to build your first React app, and how to practice React. Key takeaways: Speed up development of your first React app with UXPin’s Merge technology. Bring React components
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Prioritizing user experience and functionality has reshaped how we approach software creation, leading to the rise of design-driven development (DDD). This approach isn’t about aesthetics–it’s about understanding, empathizing, and delivering solutions that resonate with end users. Key takeaways: UXPin’s Merge technology bridges the design-development gap, enhancing collaboration and facilitating realistic, user-centric prototyping. Deliver design-driven products
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Navigating design system contribution can be challenging, often demanding coordinated efforts from multiple stakeholders. This article serves as a comprehensive guide, laying down the structured roadmap of a design system contribution model to standardize practices and ensure quality. From identifying key stakeholders to creating an agile workflow for contributions, it covers every aspect, including how
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Learning React for designers–is it necessary? Can you build code prototypes without learning to code? These are common questions among product development teams and designers. Most designers don’t want to learn to code. Learning React or even the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript takes a lot of time. A designer’s time is better spent
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The global design system’s community, Into Design Systems, hosted a webinar in July 2023 where guest speaker Marcel Bertram talked about “Systematic Design With Code.” Marcel made some interesting comparisons about designing using vector-based vs. code-based design tools and how organizations can use the latter to create a single source of truth. Into Design Systems
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Developing digital products from scratch requires a lot of resources. Multi-brand design systems enable organizations to build once, duplicate, and customize–saving thousands of design and development hours. This centralized approach to design systems means organizations can share costs across different brands while providing a framework to enter markets with new products much faster. Sync your
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As with many design systems teams, at Iress, we want our design system (which we call the IDS) to be more than simply a set of components. We want our design system to be a framework that our colleagues love to use and something that helps anyone at Iress create great experiences for the people using our product and services.
Are you navigating the journey to becoming a product designer? This guide reveals the product design essentials you’ll need to master, from skills and qualifications to networking and career progression. Discover how to align business goals with user needs, craft compelling products, and grow in the ever-evolving product design landscape. Key takeaways: Stand out from
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