I decided to share my impressions on UXPin Merge Storybook integration and write about how it influenced the designer-developer collaboration in our team. Merge is a part of UXPin – that’s technology providing two main integrations with developers’ tools (Git and Storybook). It allows you to quickly prototype using ready UI code components that are
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Parsing Props for UXPin Merge Controls – A How-to Guide
Our friend from PayPal, Anthony Hand, decided to share how to make designers’ lives easier using parsing props with UXPin Merge. Merge is UXPin’s revolutionary technology that helps you import and sync your dev’s UI components from the component library in the design tool. You can bring the components via Storybook integration or Git repository.
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11 Best Material UI Alternatives
Material UI, developed and maintained by MUI, is a popular React component library that implements Google’s Material Design guidelines. It offers a comprehensive set of reusable and customizable components, such as buttons, cards, menus, form elements, predefined styles, and themes. The library promotes a modular and structured approach to building user interfaces, enabling developers to
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UI Design for Developers – Beginner’s Guide and Tips
Understanding user interface design principles, user experience, and user-friendly design is a strategic advantage for engineers. They can anticipate potential issues and ensure they solve these to avoid debt, redesigns, and friction with design teams. This advantage means product development teams can ship high-quality products faster, with fewer errors, at lower costs. Key takeaways: UXPin
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Fluent UI vs MUI – Designer’s Comparison
Building scalable React applications from scratch is a challenging, resource-hungry endeavor. Fluent UI React, and MUI streamline this process by giving product teams comprehensive UI libraries to design, prototype, test, and develop high-quality, scalable digital products faster. We explore these popular open-source ReactJS UI libraries in 2023 and why you might choose Fluent UI or
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5 UI Components in Atomic Design
Atomic Design: once an obscure concept, it’s gained popularity in recent years. And it’s a hot interface design trend for good reason. When done correctly, Atomic Design allows design teams to deploy truly unique design systems. What’s more, these design systems offer unparalleled high-quality, consistent interfaces, which benefits end-users and developers alike. In this post,
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Why Developers Use Frameworks?
Modern product and web development rely on frameworks, libraries, and dependencies to achieve desired results and outcomes. Understanding these frameworks’ capabilities and limitations can help designers collaborate better with engineers throughout the design process and, most importantly, during design handoffs. Bridge the gap between design and development with UXPin Merge. Design fully interactive prototypes using
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6 Storybook Tutorials for Product Development Teams
There are so many Storybook tutorials that it’s difficult to know which is best for your needs. We’ve summarized the five best Storybook tutorials to help get you started with this component-driven development technology. Take UI components directly from Storybook, Git or through npm and drag n’ drop the coded components to create your layout
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5 Mistakes that Kill Collaboration Between Designers and Developers
We’ve looked at how to make it easier for designers and developers to work together. But what roadblocks and workflows work against this collaboration? We’ve researched common mistakes design teams and product managers make when working with software engineers and how they can collaborate better. Reducing friction and roadblocks creates a smoother product development process
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What are Interactive Components? Bring your Prototypes to Life in UXPin
Interactions are vital for prototyping because they provide usability participants and stakeholders with a realistic user experience. The problem many designers have is building interactive components is time-consuming, and the results are underwhelming in most design tools. Discover component-driven prototyping with UXPin Merge and how you can use interactive components to create fully functional prototypes
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What is Component-Driven Prototyping?
Component-driven prototyping is the next iteration of user experience design. Designers no longer design from scratch, and engineers write less code. The result? Better cross-functional collaboration, faster time-to-market, superior consistency, fewer errors, better testing, meaningful stakeholder feedback, and smoother design handoffs. Sound too good to be true? All of these benefits are possible and more
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How to Help Fight Front-end Debt as a Designer?
Designers and engineers must understand each other’s challenges and work together to solve them. Designers want the entire product development team to understand user experience and design thinking, while engineers need team members to help fight front-end debt. This article explores front-end debt, common solutions to the problem, and how design teams can assist engineers
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Discover Patterns – Quickly Build and Keep New Components in a Merge Library
Improve the speed and consistency of your design process with the new Merge feature – Patterns, which makes building and reusing new components or their variants a breeze. Experiment with new UI elements while staying in line with what’s feasible, expand your design system, or save time on setting the same properties over and over
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Case Study: How TeamPassword Builds Consistent Designs with UXPin Merge
TeamPassword, a simple-to-use password management tool that has started using UXPin Merge to design with code components. Looking at the leading design systems, you may get an impression that they’re reserved for big brands that have time and resources to build one. Not at all! Today’s solutions allow teams of any size to create, maintain, and support a design system.
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React Native vs. Reactjs – Understand the Difference
Understanding the difference between ReactJS vs. React Native helps designers communicate with engineers better, avoid costly technical issues, and minimize friction during design handoffs. Designers don’t have to learn code or get into the technical details of Javascript or React to understand the fundamental differences between the two. The most significant difference that concerns designers
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