That’s what Copywriters are for right? Content Strategists? Definitely! However, words are part of the user experience and at minimum, the first pass, belongs to UX Designers. Not only do clients appreciate seeing the first look of their product with copy that isn’t in Latin, but users appreciate it too. I’ve walked out of many
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At heart, design systems are all about efficiency. Streamlining tasks, removing redundancies in the process, encouraging communication and collaboration — these money- and time-saving benefits are what makes designs systems so attractive to tech startups and small businesses. How attractive? According to our 2018 UX report, 69% of 3,157 designers surveyed said they were currently
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Welcome to a brand new series on UXPin’s Studio blog! It’s pretty self explanatory, but each month we’ll highlight a designer who uses UXPin as part of their design workflow. So you can learn more about why they work in design, what inspires their creations, and how they use UXPin. First one up? Meet Robert
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March just like any other month brought us some meaningful improvements, various bug fixes, and an entirely new feature we couldn’t wait for — API Requests. Clearly, not as many as you saw in January and February, but that’s because we’re preparing for the big stuff in April. Here’s what we’ve managed to accomplish in
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This article was cowritten with Aniko Kocsis. Have you ever watched the movie Snow White? Did you notice she moved exactly the same way as characters from your other favorite childhood movies? I hadn’t either. Recently, I found an article about recurring animations in cartoons. And now, I completely get it. They are much like
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The last day of February was the day we had marked in our calendars months in advance. Because that day we reached another milestone — UXPin Merge entered its beta phase! Apart from that, this month we’ve really gone the extra mile and brought to you numerous enhancements and fixes. UXPin Merge closed beta Last
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Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are a powerful new technology. They make your website faster, let you harness the power of notifications and even work offline. So it’s a pretty big deal. In many companies, employees and users are too used to the way the current system works. So much so that they know where each
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From layering with interactivity to bright colors, know the trends that will influence 2019… and beyond. Is orange the new black? How much animation is too much animation? Will 2019 be the year of Euclid? Whether you want to follow the trends or stand out in the crowd, this web design eBook will give you
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We’ve definitely kicked off the new year with some great updates. As January has come to an end, we can sure tell that we’ve already taken a big step forward. This month was about two things: The UXPin Mirror app and Local Fonts in the UXPin Editor. To top it all off, our engineering team
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What’s the biggest difference between your designs and a $20 template? Companies ask themselves this every time they enter the market. With the widespread advertising from website builder tools, it’s an entirely rational question to ask. What do you have that they don’t? Turns out, there’s one subtle detail that gives design its entire personality…
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Designing web and mobile experiences is no easy feat. It can be tough to visualize complex digital experiences you’re creating with just artboards. You should save your imagination for creating your designs, not waste it racking your brain on how they will interact in real life. That’s why we created UXPin’s new Mirror app. What
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Agile is the most common methodology for software product development today. And, it makes sense. In the waterfall days, designers and developers followed requirements that were hundreds of pages long. Products were fully designed, and then fully developed. When the product was eventually released, there was no time to go back and fix what didn’t
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The role of typography in design is enormous – that goes without saying. Uber has its own Uber Move, Airbnb uses Cereal across its product and brand, BBC replaced the good old Gill Sans with Reith. Seeing companies design their own custom typefaces that work alongside the brand’s aesthetics, we took the opportunity to provide
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Long gone are the days when design used to rely almost solely on the creativity of designers. Technologies are sophisticated, subsequently rendering users more demanding. UX design has been blurring the line between art and science. According to Adobe, 38% of people will stop engaging with a website if its layout or content is visually
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There’s no easy way to say this: Design tools have completely failed to deliver sufficient ways to help create accessible experiences. All of these have existed as plugins or external programs. Until now. Introducing the very first built-in Contrast Analyzer & Color Blindness Simulator in a design tool. According to WHO, over 1.3 billion people
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