A report UXPin co-published with Whitespace identified five enterprise design system challenges at some of the world’s leading organizations. Within these five challenges, the common thread is “how do we achieve a single source of truth?” This challenging question pertains to everything from design system documentation and components to tools and governance. Organizations struggle to
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Discoverability in UX and UI Design — 9 Techniques to Try
Discoverability is crucial in effective UX design as it ensures users can effortlessly find and access features and content within an interface. A well-executed discoverability strategy helps users explore and interact with the interface more efficiently while increasing user engagement and retention, contributing to the overall success of a website, application, or product. We explore
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Stakeholder Interview Questions – What to Ask About During Discovery?
Stakeholder interviews can be an anxious and overwhelming experience for first-timers wanting to impress. These interviews are crucial for UX design because they provide valuable details, context, and insights that guide projects–information designers can only get through relevant stakeholders and experts. This article provides a seven-step template for planning and conducting stakeholder interviews, including how
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What is Product Design?
Businesses that prioritize product and good design have a significant advantage. With so many choices for software products on the market, users are looking for apps that cater to their specific needs and use cases. In fact, 32% of customers will abandon a brand or product if they have just one bad user experience. That’s
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Creating Perfect User Flows for Smooth UX
User flows are integral to the UX design process. These valuable UX artifacts help product teams visualize flows and processes from users’ perspectives to reduce errors and enhance the user experience. This article takes a deep dive into user flows, their importance, the principles that guide them, the visual representations, and the various types of
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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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Design Handoff: What it Looks Like with UXPin Merge
The following article is written by UXPin’s developer, Robert Kirkman, who shares how UXPin Merge makes the design handoff easier from both (a developer and designer) perspectives. Once the prototypes are ready for production, the designer hands them off to developers. Such a process can be troublesome – the right tool stack being a part
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404 Page Best Practices – Top 5 UX/UI Design Tips
No matter how incredible the design is, 404 pages can frustrate your users. The UX design team’s goal is to provide the fastest solution to fix the error with minimal effort. 404 pages are an interesting facet of website design. Some designers choose to be creative, while others clearly have better things to do–like this
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Dark Patterns in UX Design — Which Ones Are the Most Deceptive?
User experience design is a powerful discipline with a fine line between assistance and manipulation. Organizations often use dark patterns to trick users into decisions they otherwise wouldn’t choose. Sometimes these dark patterns don’t have malicious intent, but the result is the same. Understanding dark patterns and their consequences is crucial for UX design teams.
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Top 3 Design System Structures
Many teams envision creating a design system as a difficult, time-consuming project. It forces team members to audit their user interface, create a repository of design system elements and design guidelines and combine it in a way it’s usable for the entire organization It’s not the only way you structure a design system, though. There
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What Designers Can Do to Ensure a Smooth Design Handoff
If you are close or are finishing up your design after a series of iterations, then you are probably anticipating the next step—the design handoff. There are many ways to unsuccessfully pass along your designs to the development team. To help ease your mind and make this process easier, we have compiled a list that
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Designing the Overlooked Empty States – UX Best Practices
Know best practices for designing delightful empty states.
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7 Pricing Page Examples and Design Lessons that Come with Them
An effective pricing page is crucial for highlighting your value proposition and increasing conversions. Designing a pricing page requires a clear understanding of your potential customer’s problems and using the correct UI elements and content to show your product is the solution. We’ve reviewed seven leading organizations to see how these companies use design to
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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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Fluent UI – A Free Interactive UI Library in UXPin
Try a full set of interactive, ready-made components created by Microsoft and used by hundreds of enterprise companies. Build prototypes with the drag-and-drop elements that developers can easily copy. Learn more about Fluent UI. What is Fluent UI? Fluent UI is an open-source React component library developed by Microsoft. It helps teams build accessible, scalable,
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