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

When Ben Shectman came to Johnson & Johnson as a Certified Design Leader, he found useful tools for establishing visual and verbal guidelines across digital design projects. Unfortunately, the guides came as PDFs that made it challenging for designers to follow the established rules. Whenever uncertain, they would have to confirm their design choices by

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

The gap between designers and developers often slows workflows and makes it harder to bring products to market. Without strong collaboration between your design and development product teams, you will likely find that your company has to correct a lot of mistakes before you can finalize a product and release it to consumers. You don’t

Breaking down silos makes it easier for everyone involved in a project to work together towards a common goal. Unfortunately, traditional working environments make cross-team collaboration different. Newer tools with a code approach can give you an easier way to eliminate organizational silos. Adopting team collaboration tools doesn’t always eliminate silos, though. The following steps

“Design is a process. An intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients,” — Henry Dreyfuss, design pioneer. Collaborative design has helped people make some of the greatest products in modern history. Bill Gates and Paul Allen collaborated to build Microsoft, the world’s largest software company and Windows innovator. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak needed each

Way before I started the UX Writing Hub, I was a Lego fanatic. If your childhood was anything like mine, legos were a part of it. I’d say on average, my household acquired about one new set per year. So by the time I was 8 or 9, we’d developed a nice sized “lego pile.”

At heart, design systems are all about efficiency. Streamlining tasks, removing redundancies in the process, encouraging communication and collaboration — these money- and time-saving benefits are what makes designs systems so attractive to tech startups and small businesses. How attractive? According to our 2018 UX report, 69% of 3,157 designers surveyed said they were currently

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

In June, we’ve released many features to improve the workflow in UXPin Editor and build better high fidelity prototypes. Details below. Editor and Preview [New] Redesigned properties panel split into separate styling sections. [New] Context top bar menu – allows to group and ungroup the  elements, turn them into symbols and open the interactions panel

In May, we’ve focused on the improvements for Design Systems and UXPin Editor. We’ve also released a new version of a Desktop App (1.1). Details below. Editor and Preview [New] Line element. [new] Pen Tool – drag with Shift locks x/y axis.  [new] Pen Tool – pressing Shift adds a node in the middle of

And now they’re here! From user requests to new features, big and small, we’ve shared some of UXPin’s updates from the last twelve months in one concise form.   1. Shadows You can easily add shadows to the elements and customize their color, opacity, and relative position. It’s possible to combine multiple shadows together or create

In April, we’ve released a Desktop App, a few enhancements to the UXPin Editor and Design Systems, and new versions of the Sketch plugin. Details below. Desktop App That month marked the release of our brand new desktop application that has all the tools you know and love from the original browser version. Download here

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

In the past two weeks, we’ve released a few enhancements to the Design Systems (restricted access, export Design Systems in new formats), Editor (Pen Tool, resizable left panel), and in-app changelog in the Editor. Details below. Design Systems [New] Restrict access to Design Systems only to your team in UXPin.  [New] Export Design Systems with