User experience design projects often require multiple UX professionals, each with a different function and responsibilities. Understanding a UX team structure and each individual’s responsibility helps organizations hire the right people, and UX designers develop the necessary skillset for their desired career path. This article explores the different UX roles, skillsets, and team structures organizations
(…)
Designers and engineers must understand each other’s challenges and work together to solve them. Designers want the entire product development team to understand user experience and design thinking, while engineers need team members to help fight front-end debt. This article explores front-end debt, common solutions to the problem, and how design teams can assist engineers
(…)
Capturing UX requirements is an essential process before teams can begin working on a project. These requirements are vital in guiding a project on its path to success. There are three components to capturing UX requirements: business, user, and technical. Understanding each and how to capture the relevant data is crucial for designers to comprehend
(…)UXPin is a product design platform used by the best designers on the planet. Let your team easily design, collaborate, and present from low-fidelity wireframes to fully-interactive prototypes.
Start your free trial
Researching DesignOps can take you down a rabbit hole of blog posts, whitepapers, webinars, talks, communities, and more! What if you had everything bookmarked in a single resource with links to all the best DesignOps resources? Well, here it is! This comprehensive list of DesignOps resources includes everything from articles to tools and networking communities.
There are podcasts for everything now nowadays, including UX design. These design podcasts provide incredible insights from leading UX experts from some of the biggest and most innovative companies. One problem–where do you find them, and which are the best design podcasts? Here are UXPin’s best design podcasts featuring many UX experts and innovators. While
(…)
A user analysis provides the foundational research for a project. Design teams use this research to guide design decisions, identify opportunities, get stakeholder buy-in, practice empathy, and prioritize the project roadmap. Understanding the components of user analysis and how to combine the results to create actionable insights is crucial for designing a successful product that
(…)
Our goal at UXPin is for designers to spend less time designing and building and more time testing and iterating on ideas. We have a ton of shortcuts and features to help designers prototype faster and get more meaningful results during testing. We’ve compiled a list of our top 9 tips and tricks to design
(…)
Improve the speed and consistency of your design process with the new Merge feature – Patterns, which makes building and reusing new components or their variants a breeze. Experiment with new UI elements while staying in line with what’s feasible, expand your design system, or save time on setting the same properties over and over
(…)
User experience is often ambiguous, making it challenging to identify the right UX metrics and KPIs. Design and product teams want to know whether their solutions work while stakeholders are interested in various projects’ ROI. Choosing the right user experience metrics and KPIs is crucial for organizations to evaluate UX successes and measure themselves against
(…)
DesignOps has become a crucial operational function for many organizations. Some companies still operate without a dedicated DesignOps practitioner or team, working around bottlenecks and inefficiencies. According to a 2020 NN Group survey of 557 UX practitioners, “organizations only did 22% of recommended DesignOps efforts, did not have DesignOps-dedicated roles, and had low DesignOps maturity
(…)
Many digital products only exist on mobile, but they often adapt web component libraries for native mobile apps. According to a Clarity 2020 talk, “less than 10% of public design systems support platforms other than the web?” Unlike web-based design systems, mobile design systems must adapt to native operating systems and platform-specific UI patterns. What
(…)
Why does Twitter chime with users? What is it about Amazon that keeps us all coming back for more? Awesome mobile app design ideas don’t just happen. That first, exciting spark of inspiration might be lightning fast. But building that out into a tangible product that users love demands a strong mobile app design strategy.
(…)
FinTech is a challenging industry for any discipline, but especially so for UX designers. FinTech design requires designers to study financial regulations, which could differ between states and countries. These financial regulations are often detailed and extensive, meaning lots of reading before designers can even begin a project. This article explores the basics of FinTech
(…)
Dave Malouf is a DesignOps expert and industry veteran. He’s contributed to developing the practice, including sharing his knowledge through blog posts, interviews, and talks. UXPin hosted a free webinar with Dave where he shared his insights on a Holistic Design Operations approach to enterprise design. UXPin Merge is the ultimate DesignOps tool. Simplify and
(…)
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
(…)