There are many important UX design principles organizations must consider when building products. These UX principles complement the design thinking process, placing the user at the center of all decision-making. This article looks at 16 UX design principles organizations can use to build better products. UXPin’s advanced prototyping and testing features allow design teams to
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How to Create a Product Prototype and Set Your Business for Success
It’s no secret that consumers are becoming increasingly demanding when it comes to the services they pay for. In fact, a recent study by Microsoft reveals that 55% of respondents expect to see better CX year over year. The numbers are even higher when we look at customers under 34 and stands at 70%. Now,
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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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White Label Designs – All About Implementation, Design Systems, and New Technology
White label design has emerged as a popular strategy for many design and development agencies. White labeling allows agencies to build a single product that multiple companies can buy and rebrand. It costs agencies a lot of time and resources to design and engineer tools, apps, and websites. So, building white label products is significantly
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How to Build and Manage An Effective Product Development Team
At the heart of every company, there is a critical function called product development that determines their long-term success. Regardless of what industry you operate in, your capacity to develop, validate, and bring new products to market is paramount. Research from the 280 Group showed that an optimized product development function on its own could
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What is UX Writing and Why You Need a UX Writer
Nowadays, pretty much everyone knows what content writing is. But the same can’t be said about UX writing. And yet this new role within the product design team has become ever so important. So, what is UX writing, how does it fit into the design and product teams and what are the key principles of
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Design Handoff – Creating a Better Process
The design handoff is a critical part of any project. For many designers and engineers, the design handoff is a stressful experience. If either team misses something, it could result in product defects and delays. While it’s primarily the responsibility of the UX team to produce prototypes, assets, and documentation, the design handoff process is
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UX Portfolio – All You Need to Know
In a competitive user experience design landscape, designers must ensure their UX portfolio stands out from the crowd. For some company’s a UX design portfolio is more important than where you went to school or what degree you hold. User experience is about solving human problems, which employers want to see in a UX portfolio—along
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What is Usability Testing and How to Run It?
Usability testing is a crucial part of the design thinking process. It’s an opportunity for UX teams to present their solutions to those whose problems they’re trying to solve—a nerve-racking and exciting experience! UXPin is the world’s most sophisticated prototyping and usability testing design tool. Using UXPin with Merge technology, designers can create high-fidelity prototypes
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Paper Prototyping: The 10-Minute Practical Guide
In the high-tech digital UX design world, pen and paper are still 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 sitting
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10 Experts Discuss Top Challenges in Product Development & How to Overcome Them
Bringing a new digital product into the market can, undoubtedly, be a rewarding feeling. Few things will motivate your team as well as seeing their hard work pay back in the form of satisfied returning customers and ROI. That being said, it’s not always sunshine and rainbows. The road towards a successful launch can be
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Stages of the Design Thinking Process
Design thinking is the foundational process for UX teams to identify user problems and solve them with digital products. Design thinking encourages collaborating and a human-centered design. The five stages of the design thinking process include: Empathize – Discover what your users need Define – Determine the problem you want to solve Ideate – Develop
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How to Create the Right Strategy for Product Development to Improve Digital Product Design?
In today’s competitive digital landscape, success is a stream of fresh ideas. Innovative thinking. Audience-led and data-driven product design that meets the needs of your business and your customer – whether they knew they wanted it or not. But for every iPod, there’s a Zune. For every static, stifled Myspace or Friends Reunited, there’s a
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5 Tips to Create Prototypes for Mobile Apps
With the massive range of smartphones and screen sizes, creating and testing prototypes for mobile apps is a critical part of the design process. UX teams must thoroughly test designs and resolve usability issues before handing the final drafts over to engineering. Developing an app is a time-consuming and expensive process. It’s much quicker and
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Product Development Process: A Step-By-Step Approach
Bringing a new product to market is hard. The scary statistic is that 95% of new products fail despite all the time, effort, and resources invested to bring these ideas to life. But that shouldn’t discourage you from trying though, because when you get it right, you can transform your industry and build a business
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