The release of the recently announced UXPin Merge introduces a new era for UXPin: we’re not just for designers anymore. Merge allows frontend devs to push live, working React components to UXPin. This ensures designers are prototyping with real, up-to-date components and reduces friction in the design/dev handoff. How do developers test components locally and
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Hero image banners, also called “hero headers” dominate the top of your website or application. Typically, they spread out over the entire horizontal space. Ideally, they have high-resolution images and calls-to-action that get attention from visitors. Creative designers have made a variety of hero image formats over the years. A hero section may include navigation
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With the U.S. unemployment rate hovering at around 8%, millions of Americans are in limbo either looking for a new job or unsure about when (or if) they’ll be able to go back to their pre-pandemic employment. On the bright side, a tight and unpredictable job market is the perfect time to learn a new
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Like Patrick Bateman inspecting Paul Allen’s business card, it’s easy to be envious when inspecting the design systems of GitHub, IBM, and Atlassian. Responsive? Check. Patterns? Check. Vector-based design libraries? Check. These systems are monuments to work-ethic, discipline, and teamwork. When a design system is launched, it dramatically reduces the time it takes to go
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You may want to hire a UX consultant before you begin your next product development project. User experience consultants become particularly valuable when you have a team of junior designers or you want to create a product outside of your expertise. By bringing a consultant in before you start the project, you can create an
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We’re happy to let you know that we’re hosting a free webinar “Scale design efficiently with DesignOps2.0” with a guest speaker: Erica Rider from PayPal’s internal developer tools team on Oct 29th, 2020 at 10:00 PDT. Join now for free! During the webinar, Erica will share some DesignOps best practices and explain how to smoothly
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UX research helps to test hypothesis you have about users prior to design. Sadly, not every UX design project starts with user research, and that’s because it takes a lot of time to recruit participants, run UX research projects, and sumamrize findings. Good research, nevertheless, ensures that your product team doesn’t build the wrong functionality
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The average cost of website design is anywhere from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. There are several factors and options that will affect the cost of your project, which is why it is hard to pin down the exact cost of such an endeavor before you begin. While it may
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There is no single definition for interaction design. However, much of its character shapes digital products, services, artefacts, and spaces with a strong emphasis on user experience. The field is broad, user interaction is diverse and dynamic and involves aesthetics, motion, sound, space. With these elements becoming more granular, i.e. sound design for the crafting
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Do you want to find out how to simulate millions of virtual users that interact with a site from different locations on a single screen? You can get behind the scenes and discover all the insights about it in our recently published success story from Nitzan Ron of BlazeMeter. Ron recalls having tested numerous solutions,
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Gone are the days when design was considered as a ‘nice to have’ in most organizations. Today, design is an integral part of successful companies with McKinsey reporting that companies that invest in design see a 32% increase in revenue and a 56% increase in shareholder returns. Design teams that are structured properly are the
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Most designers do everything possible to give users streamlined experiences without any interruptions. Sometimes, though, it makes sense to interrupt the user flow with a modal that triggers the user to do something on a website or in an app. The following article explains various cases in which it makes sense to use modal UI
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Most designers want to create something beautiful, but beauty alone in the UI & UX world is not enough. If it doesn’t support the goals of your business or your clients – it just won’t last very long.. A product can only last when the client makes money from it. A UX that doesn’t drive
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At its core, a website is a way of presenting information to users. When the information is organized effectively, it makes it easy for users to find what they are looking for and for the business to accomplish its goals. In this article, we’ll look at how you can use Information Architecture (IA) to create
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When you’re designing for a friendly user experience and user interface, you start with a concept. You have an idea of how it should work in the real world. You just need to communicate it to the rest of the design team. Welcome to the world of what we call Conceptual Models. In this article,
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