The design culture examples in this article demonstrate how design-driven companies create positive customer experiences and enhance overall business success. Creating a good design culture starts with understanding user needs, encouraging collaboration between departments, experimenting with new ideas, investing in the right tools, and developing design team rituals. Examples from J&J, PayPal, Rexlabs, Google, Revolut,
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Design leadership isn’t about micromanaging every little step. Rather, a good design leader is able to provide impactful direction for their team. How exactly does a design leader encourage a positive and meaningful product design work environment? Let’s start by taking a look at the key steps to take for managing a design team successfully
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Design consultants have been around for some time, with companies using external services firms and agencies to take care of their design consulting needs for many years. But as design change management evolves, and with contemporary design thinking transforming how design teams are integrating their efforts with other departments, design industry roles like these are
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The BASIC UX framework is as simple as its name suggests. Designers measure a product against a set of UX principles to identify usability issues. These principles apply to web design, mobile apps, and other digital products. What makes BASIC UX great is it’s a checklist template design teams can adopt and adapt to meet
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In May 2022, UXPin had the pleasure of hosting the lovely Amber Jabeen, DesignOps Director at Delivery Hero MENA (talabat), for a webinar titled: Enterprise Design System – How to Build and Scale. This article summarizes part of Amber’s talk where she discusses her team’s challenges with getting design system buy-in and what she would
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FinTech is a challenging industry for any discipline, but especially so for UX designers. FinTech design requires designers to study financial regulations, which could differ between states and countries. These financial regulations are often detailed and extensive, meaning lots of reading before designers can even begin a project. This article explores the basics of FinTech
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Erica Rider (UX Lead EPX @ PayPal) and PayPal are no strangers to UXPin. Erica has been very vocal in her praise for UXPin Merge over the years and how the technology revolutionized PayPal’s internal product development process. At Design Value Conference 2022, Erica talks about PayPal’s DesignOps 2.0, a new framework for scaling design
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At UXPin’s first annual Design Value Conference in March 2022, we hosted five design industry leaders to understand Design and DesignOps at some of the world’s biggest organizations. This article summarizes everything we covered at the Design Value Conference 2022, with links to a synopsis of each talk and the 30-minute video. Design Value Conference
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ing with designers to turn design ideas into functioning code. Front-end and back-end engineers use this code as a foundation to develop the final product.
In February 2022, UXPin hosted a free webinar with DesignOps expert Dave Malouf titled Holistic Design Operations. Dave discusses how he and his team solved the “human operational problem” to break down silos–a common issue with large and enterprise organizations. Join us for the May 2022 webinar about building centralized design system for enterprises. Sign
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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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Design is much more than creating the look and feel of a product, isn’t it? It has a real impact on the people, processes, and business. We gathered top specialists who have influenced the way things are run in their companies to tell you their stories. It’s all for free! Sign up and join us
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Enterprise UI design is complex, challenging, and exciting. The scale of enterprise software projects and tough competition means organizations must optimize design workflows to minimize costs and be quick to market. This article explores enterprise UI design, the challenges teams face, how to structure an enterprise team, the importance of a design system, and 5
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