You may wonder what the difference between UXPin and Merge is. And, which one is right for my design team? To put it simply, UXPin is an all-in-one design software that covers the entire product design process together, including design handoff, while Merge is a technology that allow you to bring interactive components to UXPin
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5 Mistakes that Kill Collaboration Between Designers and Developers
We’ve looked at how to make it easier for designers and developers to work together. But what roadblocks and workflows work against this collaboration? We’ve researched common mistakes design teams and product managers make when working with software engineers and how they can collaborate better. Reducing friction and roadblocks creates a smoother product development process
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What is Design Simplicity and How to Achieve it?
Design simplicity is a term companies use without truly understanding its meaning. As discussed in this article, simpler isn’t always better, and how designers apply simplicity can have positive and negative effects. This article defines what UX design simplicity is (and isn’t), some common misconceptions, and strategies for implementing its principles. Simplify your product design
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What are Interactive Components? Bring your Prototypes to Life in UXPin
Interactions are vital for prototyping because they provide usability participants and stakeholders with a realistic user experience. The problem many designers have is building interactive components is time-consuming, and the results are underwhelming in most design tools. Discover component-driven prototyping with UXPin Merge and how you can use interactive components to create fully functional prototypes
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Using a Single Source of Truth with UXPin Merge – dotSource’s Case Study
We partnered with UXPin users dotSource to demonstrate how an agency working on multiple products, each with its own design system, leverages Merge technology to create a single source of truth between design and development. Create a single source of truth for your product’s design system with UXPin Merge. Visit our Merge page for more
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7 Productivity Hacks for UX Designers
Maximizing productivity is vital for UXers and product managers who are often under tight project deadlines. Startups and small teams also seek UX productivity tips to maximize limited resources. Whether you suffer from procrastination or just want to increase your value as a UX designer, this article offers actionable advice to optimize your UX team’s
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Design System Glossary – 34 Powerful Terms You Should Know
Design systems can be very confusing and complicated if you don’t fully understand the terminology associated with them. It’s important for designers and developers alike to be on the same page for the most effective communication efforts. For this reason, we have comprised some key terms along with associated applications and examples to provide a
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Improve Your Team’s Roadmap and Build Better Products
Whether an early-stage startup or a multi-national organization, a product roadmap is essential for aligning teams toward achieving the company’s goals and objectives. This article includes valuable tips from product experts about creating and maintaining a successful product roadmap. We’ve also included a list of tools to simplify the process of building one. Streamline product
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Software Development Tools 101 – A Quick Guide for Designers
As a designer, learning about software development tools can help improve design projects and find ways to enhance collaboration with engineers. Such proactive approach can also help design projects increase buy-in for initiatives. A great example is how Delivery Hero’s product team leveraged front-end debt to get buy-in for their Marshmallow Design System. By understanding
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How to Use UXPin Merge Patterns? A Quick Tutorial
A product and its design system are ever-evolving projects. As the product scales, designers must create new UI patterns and components to meet business goals and user needs while solving usability challenges. UXPin’s Patterns allow design teams to combine existing Merge components with standard UI elements to create new UI patterns and save them to
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UX Business Case – How to Build a Strong Case for Investing in Design
With limited resources and competition from other departments, creating a compelling business case for UI/UX design initiatives is crucial to secure buy-in. You must prove you have the best solution and can execute your initiative successfully. This article discusses how user experience design professionals can create a convincing UX business case, including an example from
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How to Import Ant Design to UXPin? An npm Integration Guide
Component-driven prototyping significantly improves user testing while providing stakeholders with realistic product design expectations. UXPin’s npm integration enables design teams to use open-source component libraries to design fully functioning, high-fidelity prototypes. Get on board the code-based design revolution with UXPin’s Merge technology and npm Integration. Discover more about component-driven prototyping that maximizes the use of
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What is Component-Driven Prototyping?
Component-driven prototyping is the next iteration of user experience design. Designers no longer design from scratch, and engineers write less code. The result? Better cross-functional collaboration, faster time-to-market, superior consistency, fewer errors, better testing, meaningful stakeholder feedback, and smoother design handoffs. Sound too good to be true? All of these benefits are possible and more
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Checklist to Track DesignOps Maturity
Maturing and scaling DesignOps is crucial for long-term success. But where do you start, what do you track, and how do you measure the right metrics? We took inspiration from the NN Group’s DesignOps Framework and questions from our UXPin Community to create a checklist template DesignOps practitioners can use to track and measure maturity.
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9 Experts Share Examples of Great App Design
When you look at the apps that have hit thousands, if not millions of downloads (and boast thousands of happy reviews!), you might wonder: is there an ‘it’ factor they all share? Among others, whether an app has a high download and retention rate comes down to great app design. Namely, there are certain UI/UX
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