UXPin Blog — Design Studio

Shortcuts are great — in moderation. Don’t let sloppy dev workmanship degrade your digital products. Instead, get code from the source.

Drop-down lists that appear on hover are a great way to hide options until they’re needed. A handy technique to make them work in UXPin: group ’em twice.

Design systems do more than provide visual and interactive style guides to which teams should adhere. They also make their contents easy to find. After all, UX doesn’t just apply to non-designers.

Although UXPin doesn’t export code, it has a customizable grid that’s analogous to those found in popular CSS frameworks. Here’s how it works.

Rapid ideation technique practiced by IDEO designers.

UXPin has basic shapes like boxes, arrows, and circles — the basic elements. It also has whole sets you can use as starting points for your design systems.

Implementing user requests verbatim is the wrong way to design. A designer must ask, “Is this experience leading people to the right destination?” By using destination-centered design, experiences can lead people toward their promised land.

“What do you think?” often results in bland, unhelpful, and off-topic comments. Here are some tips to get great feedback that moves projects forward.

Going freelance is a risky business. Designers who want to switch from full-time to independent work face many hurdles, some of which begin long before the designers are prepared.

Making buttons change color on hover is easy — and overused. Buttons that swell as people interact with them have a little extra “wow” factor.

People may hit obstacles to finding the information they want, sometimes driving them to your competition. Solid user flows are vital to keeping them around.

As guest authors for Smashing Magazine, it only makes sense we’re excited about their upcoming conference in San Francisco. Their conference is an in-person extension of the practical content we love on their site. Based on their speaker lineup and topics, the multidisciplinary conference tears apart UX and front-end development case studies to explore: How

Select lists, also called drop-down menus, are common web form elements that let people choose one item from a set. They’re handy for letting users choose, say, a method of shipping. But with a quick interaction, they can also reveal additional information. For example, if someone chooses an option for “PayPal” during the checkout phase

People trust the familiar. Knowing that, many designers strive to keep their work as simple as possible. It’s also practical: once you design, say, a navigation bar, then duplicating it to every page or view is easy. But standards change over time. New designers with fresh ideas inherit old projects. New code techniques replace last

A visual overview of the newest evolution of Material Design.