Visual balance plays a pivotal role in shaping user experiences and perceptions. Crafting an engaging digital landscape that effectively communicates the message and keeps users returning for more hinges on a designer’s ability to master the art of balance. From exploring the core concepts of symmetry and asymmetry to learning practical techniques for achieving a
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As UX designers, our prime job is to enhance user experience via creative, technologically-sound designs. The market out there is constantly evolving, and as dynamic professionals in the UX design field, it’s essential for us to explore new arenas to boost the quality of our work. UX books are a great way to gain insight
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Customer journey maps are effective visualizations that help organizations understand their customers and create better experiences. Product teams use these journey maps during the design process to solve usability issues, streamline user experiences, and identify opportunities that help the organization achieve its business goals. Creating customer journey maps requires research, collaboration, the right tools, and
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User-friendly and accessible chat UI design is essential for modern applications, as it significantly impacts the user experience and overall satisfaction with the product or a service. With the right approach and tools, you can create a chat user interface that enhances communication and engagement for your application. Design accurate prototypes replicating the final messaging
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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