“The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.” – Zig Ziglar Product definition is the cornerstone of our entire product and sets the stage for the success of our product. Every solution we design builds upon the framework of this initial problem. That means we need to start with
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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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What is Desirability, Viability, and Feasibility? [+ Design Review Template]
See how to use a simple Sketch template to improve the focus of your design reviews.
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What is Interaction Design?
Interaction design is one of the most critical facets of user experience design. It makes the product’s interface respond to user’s action, aiding in human-to-computer interaction. Key takeaways: It’s one of the most challenging stages of UX design process. UXPin’s code-based design tool reduces those challenges by allowing designers to build functional prototypes with extreme
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AI Personas – How to Use ChatGPT to Create Personas
Using LLM like ChatGPT to create AI personas for UX design is an emerging practice that can enhance the persona development process, making it faster, more data-driven, and adaptable. Here’s how it works and the potential benefits. If you’re a fan of AI in design, Merge AI is sure to catch your attention. With UXPin’s
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UX Process Cheat Sheet for Busy Teams
A cheat sheet is a concise reference guide that provides quick, essential information about a particular topic or process. It’s designed to simplify complex information into easy-to-follow steps without having to sift through large amounts of content. In the context of UX process, a cheat sheet might outline the steps in the design process It
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A Hands-On Guide to Mobile-First Responsive Design
Learn mobile-first design with this lesson created by a web designer with 20+ years experience. See the process complete with instructions and examples.
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The Practical Guide to Empathy Maps: 10-Minute User Personas
A step-by-step process to creating an empathy map as a lean user persona.
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Design System Governance – Scale Your Design
Some team members despise design system governance. They see it as a roadblock to rapid growth, creativity, and flexibility. However, design system governance can foster scalability and creativity if properly implemented while maintaining design and usability consistency. Good design system governance prioritizes users before growth and profits. Company culture also plays a significant role in
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What is a Prototype? A Guide to Functional UX
A prototype is an early model or simulation of a product used to test and validate ideas before full-scale production. Prototypes vary in fidelity from simple sketches of a user interface to fully interactive digital models that resemble the final product. They serve to gather user feedback, identify usability issues, and refine design concepts, helping
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Prompt Engineering Guide for UX/UI Designers
Prompt engineering involves designing and refining prompts to elicit desired responses from artificial intelligence models. It entails crafting specific inputs to guide the AI’s output towards useful, relevant, and accurate results, aiming to maximize effectiveness and reliability. With the development and widespread use of advanced language models like GPT-3 and GPT-4 from OpenAI, prompt engineering
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UX Honeycomb – 7-Factor Design Framework for Great User Experience
Peter Morville’s User Experience Honeycomb has been around since 2004 and is still a highly relevant design framework for modern product development projects. The framework forces design teams to evaluate a product through seven facets of user experience to identify areas for improvement. This article provides an overview of the UX Honeycomb and the circumstances
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Double Diamond Design Process – The Best Framework for a Successful Product Design
The Double Diamond design process is a widely used methodology for identifying a problem and developing a solution. This outcomes-based framework encourages creativity and innovation while focusing on the core issue and its impact on end-users. It was introduced by the British Council so that designers could follow a standardized design process and make that
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UX Design Process – An Actionable, 7-Step Guide
UX design process is systematic, iterative, and structured series of actions that is necessary for designing user experience. It helps teams to follow easy-to-replicate steps to deliver interfaces while meeting the organization’s quality standards. Build prototypes with UI components that are backed with code and never let pixels derail your UX design process ever again.
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Paper Prototyping: The 10-Minute Practical Guide
In the high-tech digital UX design world, pen and paper can still be the preferred choices for fast low-fidelity prototyping. Contrary to assumptions, UX teams spend a lot of time away from the computer, writing on sticky notes, whiteboards, notepads, and adding annotations to paper prototypes. The more planning and preparation designers can do before
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