To deliver successful outcomes, design project management incorporates several key UX functions, including creative direction, UX design, DesignOps, and design leadership. This article explores the design project management discipline, a manager’s skills, relevant tools, and the five stages from initiation to final delivery. Achieve better results during the design process with high-quality, interactive prototypes using
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10 Examples of Design Decisions and How to Make them
Design decisions define the direction and outcome of design projects. Designers use research and data to validate assumptions and eliminate biases during the decision-making process. Making decisions is one part of this process. Design teams must also articulate their thought process to get stakeholders, engineers, and product owners on the same page. Articulate your design
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Code to Design Complete Guide for 2023
Design-to-code is a familiar workflow. Designers create a prototype using a design tool, and developers convert it to code–a simplified version of the standard product development process. UXPin Merge turns this process upside down with a revolutionary code-to-design workflow. This article explains code to design and how it enhances the product development process with four
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Code to Design vs. Design to Code – Which is Better?
Just completed the final iteration of your prototype? Great! Let’s send the design to the development team, so they can translate it to code. Here the question pops up: is design to code really the best direction you can hope for? Actually, there’s a second model of working: pushing code to design and working with
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App Engagement – 7 Ways UX Design Can Increase it
Mobile app competition is fierce, with millions of digital products vying for people’s limited attention. Increasing app engagement is a high priority for many product development teams, constantly looking for innovative ways to retain and entertain. UX designers play an essential role in keeping app users engaged using various design and psychology techniques. Prototyping and
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Website Design Ideas for Practicing Design
We’ve put together some of the best website design ideas to delight and inspire you. We’ve also created a seven-step process to generate ideas based on your target audience’s needs and business goals. Whether you’re a design agency, startup, small business, or solopreneur looking for inspiration, this article will guide you through the best web
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10 Essential Design System Components
Design systems cannot exist without a reusable component library. These design system components create workflow and UI consistency across design and development to minimize drift and streamline handoffs. But these UI components don’t simply appear. The design system team must first lay the foundation for these UI elements to exist, including design language (design principles)
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What is Design System Theming? [+ 4 Use Cases]
Building a design system is expensive. Whether an organization develops from scratch or adopts an open-source design system, theming is crucial for customization. This customization could be as simple as creating a dark mode or a multi-brand design system to accommodate a product suite. Design tokens and variables are crucial to design system theming, allowing
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How to Choose the Best UX Tool? 7 Key Features to Look for
Are you searching for the best UX tool? If so, then you might have noticed that the tools out there vary greatly in terms of the features they offer. Because of that, it can be hard to assess if the user experience software you’re considering genuinely has all you need. Or, even, if you’ll need
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Building a Component Library – A Step-by-Step Guide
Whether you’re creating a design system from scratch or want better front-end development cohesion and consistency, building a component library is an excellent way to improve your product’s user experience. A component library will save you significant time in the long run, but it will require a lot of resources and attention to detail to
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What is Design Facilitation and How to Host Your First Session?
Workshops and design sprints are standard in most design processes. These collaborative exercises allow design teams to get valuable input from multiple departments and stakeholders. Design facilitation provides the essential planning and framework to ensure these exercises deliver successful outcomes. Facilitators must guide team members through various tasks and activities to achieve the activity’s goals
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Design Handoff Basics – What Do Developers Need from Designers?
Design handoffs are a tense time. Designers and engineers speak separate languages and work within different constraints, making communication and collaboration challenging. The first step to bridging this gap is defining what engineers need for development. Communicating these needs at the start of the design process will help designers prepare accordingly and streamline the design
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What is Collaborative Prototyping?
We’re always looking for new ways to enhance prototyping and cross-functional collaboration. Collaborative prototyping is a “hyper-efficient” sprint methodology to create a prototype in one day. Bring collaboration between designers and developers to the ultimate level. Introduce a single source of truth for design and create high-fidelity interactive prototypes in minutes that devs can replicate
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Task Analysis – How to Find UX Flaws
A task analysis is a vital user research method for understanding how users complete tasks, including what triggers them to start, their actions, and how they know when it’s complete. Mapping these tasks allows designers to empathize with users by analyzing their actions, struggles, and environmental influences while pinpointing opportunities within user flows to improve
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What is Content Design?
Content design has evolved to become a crucial role in the UX design process. Teams rely on content designers to ensure products deliver the highest quality content that meets user needs precisely when they need it. Do you struggle to build accurate prototypes as a content designer? Build fully functioning prototypes with UXPin Merge, the
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