The gap between designers and developers often slows workflows and makes it harder to bring products to market. Without strong collaboration between your design and development product teams, you will likely find that your company has to correct a lot of mistakes before you can finalize a product and release it to consumers. You don’t
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Encourage collaborative design to build better products
“Design is a process. An intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients,” — Henry Dreyfuss, design pioneer. Collaborative design has helped people make some of the greatest products in modern history. Bill Gates and Paul Allen collaborated to build Microsoft, the world’s largest software company and Windows innovator. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak needed each
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Webinar: Interactive Design System in Enterprise
How do you manage and build a Design System for an enterprise? As you may already know, this single source of truth helps enterprises bridge the gap between designers and developers and speed up the development process. It is thanks to the set-out standards and reusable components that the design and development workflow is cut
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Strategies to Design at Scale and Iterate Products More Efficiently
Over the last few decades, companies have learned that they need to embrace digital transformation and release digital products that meet consumer expectations. As a result, developers have added a lot of UX professionals to their teams. The change has forced designers to rethink how they can design at scale without creating an impossible amount
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How Collaboration Makes You a Better Designer
You probably think that you participate in design collaboration every day. You complete one stage of a design, then you hand it to someone else who works on the next step. That isn’t true collaboration, though. That’s more like working at an assembly line where everyone has assigned roles. Real collaboration involves getting together with
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Guide to building a UI design system
Overview A UI design system keeps your product design organized and consistent. Here’s how to create one for your next project. UI design systems help you establish consistent design across your product. This consistent design is crucial for user experience and SEO. You won’t have an effective product without a good component design. Effective component
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Make Theme Switching Easy with UXPin Merge
Theme switching is an essential part of designing prototypes. Whether that be changing between a simple light and dark mode or testing several client’s themes on a single prototype, it is something that all designers need to consider and have a well-thought-out process for. Furthermore, this need has become increasingly important with the adoption of
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Design Your Own Design Process Step By Step
Managers have developed dozens—at least—of processes that they believe improve efficiency and get better results. Those series of steps, however, may not match the needs of your design team. You might also find that some projects don’t fit into the restrictions of established stages of design? Who says you can’t make a design process of
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Benefits of Using a Random Name Generator
For a lot of people, random name generators provide a fun, easy way to come up with inventive names. You might use them to name a business, pet, or just to have fun. When it comes to developing products like websites and apps, though, you can get several benefits from using a random name generator.
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Understanding DesignOps and Its Role in Design Teams
When you have a very small design team with just a couple of people, you might wonder why anyone needs a DesignOps professional. As your agency grows larger, you start recruiting help from more freelancers, or your products become more complicated, you will quickly realize that DesignOps plays a crucial role in design teams. If
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Webinar Wrap-Up: 11 Ways to Start Your Inclusive, Accessible Design Toolkit
Inclusive design affects the ways that people interact with technology and feel about the world. Organizations that strive to make their digital products more accessible reap several benefits from considering the needs of diverse users. By offering more inclusive designs, businesses can potentially attract more customers and earn more money. They might also avoid fines
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Responsive Design with UXPin Merge
Responsive websites, mobile-friendly designs, adaptive images are crucial for user experience. So, being able to responsively design prototypes without using multiple layouts for different screen sizes is an extremely powerful and time-saving feature. It’s something that many people have wanted and thanks to the power of Merge, you can do just that by using actual
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The Rules of Material Design
Material Design has become the standard for designing and developing Android applications and many websites. Before you can get the best results from Material Design, though, you need to learn a few rules that will improve your work’s consistency and help it operate on the Android platform. You don’t have to accept the following as
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Best Tools and Resources for Your Accessible Design
A good functional design is an accessible one. There are many reasons to go for an inclusive approach in designing and we believe that no one should be excluded from the benefits that bring the digital world. More than one billion people experience some form of disability, so remember that having accessibility in mind when
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How to Create Clickable Prototypes
Interactive prototyping helps ensure that your product works exactly as you plan. If you cannot test your prototypes before releasing products to the public, you could receive unexpectedly negative feedback. Learn how to create clickable prototypes so you can control the narrative and keep your users coming back often. Interactive features have psychological effects on
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