One of the challenges with prototyping using a design tool is the lack of fidelity and functionality, preventing designers from completing comprehensive and accurate user testing. Live-data prototypes seek to solve this prototyping issue by replicating the dynamic experience of code with data from user inputs. Designers must work with a front-end developer or UX
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Designers produce many UX artifacts throughout the product development process. These records help design teams iterate on previous work and provide valuable documentation for stakeholders, design handoffs, R&D, and future projects. This article explores common UX deliverables and how each artifact guides the next. We’ll also discuss which UX artifacts matter most to different teams
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At UXPin’s first annual Design Value Conference in March 2022, we hosted five design industry leaders to understand Design and DesignOps at some of the world’s biggest organizations. Omkar Chandgadkar is a Senior UX Designer at Amazon Alexa Smart Home with a practical step-by-step approach to DesignOps. The humorous title of his Design Value Conference
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Design advocacy has grown in popularity over the last decade as UX designers seek to educate non-design teams and stakeholders about the importance of user-centered solutions and user experience. Design advocates take on many forms, from UX designers to c-suite executives with firsthand experience. The goal of a design advocate is to create ripples throughout
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Erica Rider (UX Lead EPX @ PayPal) and PayPal are no strangers to UXPin. Erica has been very vocal in her praise for UXPin Merge over the years and how the technology revolutionized PayPal’s internal product development process. At Design Value Conference 2022, Erica talks about PayPal’s DesignOps 2.0, a new framework for scaling design
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Springboard’s online learning platform lists UX engineers (aka UX unicorns) as one of the most in-demand jobs in 2022. Creating an attractive UX engineer portfolio will help you stand out. We share tips on how to build a UX engineer portfolio, what info to share, and examples at the end for inspiration. Improve collaboration and
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A UX competitive analysis is a crucial part of UX research. It’s an opportunity for designers to leverage what works, avoid what doesn’t, and identify gaps to gain a competitive advantage.
We often associate dashboard design with enterprise products. But dashboards are everywhere, including social media applications, games, and even our mobile devices. These dashboards show users critical information in a succinct visualization that’s easy to digest. Let’s explore dashboard UI design and prototyping plus some best practices to ensure you create amazing dashboard user experiences
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Building a website is more accessible than ever. There are tons of web design tools catering to everyone, from newbies to professional designers and developers. We’ve put together a list of the best website design tools and we organized it into three categories (feel free to jump to the section that best describes your web
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Without the right app design steps in place, it’s like rolling a dice and wishing for a six. Sure, the app you unleash into the marketplace may be a hit. More likely, it risks sinking without a trace because it didn’t appeal to the target audience and didn’t work the way it should. Effective mobile
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Whether you’re building a SaaS application, website, game, or other digital product, developing an efficient UX design process is crucial to your project’s success. This systematic, iterative process ensures teams follow standard protocols to deliver projects consistently while meeting the organization’s quality standards. Speed up your design process by using a revolutionary UXPin Merge technology.
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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During the Design Value Conference, our CEO, Yuga Koda, spoke on UXPin’s latest way of improving the design process for teams that would like to bring the single source of truth to design workflow, without developers’ help – Merge Component Manager with NPM integration. Yuga explained the “why” behind Component Manager and showcased how it
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In a world filled with an extensive range of devices and different screen sizes, it’s safe to say that responsive design is design. Organizations cannot afford to build any website or application for a single device or screen size because they’ll lose out to a competing product that’s more accommodating to more users. This step-by-step
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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.