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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Capturing UX requirements is an essential process before teams can begin working on a project. These requirements are vital in guiding a project on its path to success. There are three components to capturing UX requirements: business, user, and technical. Understanding each and how to capture the relevant data is crucial for designers to comprehend
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A user analysis provides the foundational research for a project. Design teams use this research to guide design decisions, identify opportunities, get stakeholder buy-in, practice empathy, and prioritize the project roadmap. Understanding the components of user analysis and how to combine the results to create actionable insights is crucial for designing a successful product that
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Designers produce many UX artifacts throughout the product development process. These records help design teams iterate on previous work and provide valuable documentation for stakeholders, design handoffs, R&D, and future projects. This article explores common UX deliverables and how each artifact guides the next. We’ll also discuss which UX artifacts matter most to different teams
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Designing UI mockups is a critical part of the design process. They’re a visual representation or screenshot of how the final website or product will look. It’s the first time designers get to see their ideas brought to life with color, typography, and content. By the end of this article, you’ll understand what a UI
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On the surface, building a design system is a matter of designing a collection of elements, components, text styles, and colors. But the truth is it’s a more complex procedure. Building, managing, and scaling a design system requires principles and direction. This article was inspired by the webinar about Design System with Carola Cassaro, which
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Adopting and scaling a design system is challenging. You must get buy-in from the entire organization, which means evangelizing your design system to persuade stakeholders, product managers, development teams, and designers of its value. Building a design system is just the first step; scaling and reaching optimal design system maturity costs a lot of time
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Building a design system is a time-consuming and costly exercise. But, as many organizations have shown, the benefits far outweigh the costs. A design system roadmap allows team members and stakeholders to monitor the design system’s maturity, milestones, and timeline. Whether you’re just getting started or want to grow an existing design system, this article
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Create useful UX documentation. More insights, less paper trails. Good UX documentation is detailed yet lean. It should be highly focused, actionable, and purposeful.
Usability testing is a crucial part of the design thinking process. It’s an opportunity for UX teams to present their solutions to those whose problems they’re trying to solve—a nerve-racking and exciting experience! UXPin is the world’s most sophisticated prototyping and usability testing design tool. Using UXPin with Merge technology, designers can create high-fidelity prototypes
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In recent times, there has been an increased focus on having a pixel-perfect UI that is not only visually stunning but also fulfills the requirements of the user effectively. This renewed focus on UI has resulted in a massive growth in tools, frameworks, and environments that aid this movement. Storybook is one such tool that
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In the second part of January 2018, we’ve released many improvements to Design Systems (subpages in custom pages, protection from losing documentation, table element), the Editor (copy-paste of interactions, manual distance measurement, blur, and more), and also a new version of Sketch plugin 4.10.4 with small bug fixes and improvements. Design Systems Add and manage
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In the first week of 2018, we’ve introduced: enhancements to Design Systems, improvements to shortcuts in UXPin Editor, and released new Sketch plugin v.4.10.3. Design Systems New: Colorize stroke for SVG assets.
Recently, we’ve released new features in Design Systems: search in the documentation, dark background for light assets and text styles, possibility to add colors from any website to a Design System. In the Editor, we’ve: added a possibility to break a symbol, improved copying and pasting, and enabled aligning single elements to the canvas. Design
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This week we’ve welcomed December with the brand-new Shadows feature, a new version of the plugin compatible with the newest Sketch 48, and several improvements to the Design Systems. Design Systems New: Renaming the Design System from the Dashboard by clicking on its name. New: Replacing the Design Systems name within the logotype. New: Adding
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