Key Takeaways: Inclusive design aims at taking perspectives of diverse user groups when designing a digital product. It considers temporary and situational factors that may play into user’s experience of a product. There are 8 principles of inclusive web design that designers may use when creating inclusive experiences. One of an exercise for designing inclusive
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Sustainable web design is a growing movement as organizations look for every opportunity to reduce emissions and minimize their carbon footprint. If you follow responsive web design and mobile-first practices, you’re already on the way to reducing your environmental impact with greener digital products. According to a March 2020 BBC article, Why your internet habits
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Get best practices for everyday responsive design. Tips illustrated with thorough analysis of 3 examples.
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Due to its subjective nature, UX design is not simple to quantify and measure. UX also indirectly affects other areas of the business, namely sales, marketing, support, and engineering. But, for UX design to succeed within an organization, design leadership must demonstrate the value of its design investments. A 2016 report from Forrester, The Six
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Designers and developers collaborate for a common cause–to build products and experiences their customers want or need. Their shared purpose is to serve their users. To achieve this common purpose and collaborate effectively, designers and developers should understand the other’s discipline. Designers don’t have to become coders, but understanding the basics of code and its
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Whether you’re an experienced UX designer or brand new to the industry, there’s always something to learn. And what better way to do that than reading free quality online design resources. Yes! In this digital age of free information, quality UX design blogs can provide you with a lot of knowledge and help you get
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A/B testing (split testing) is a quantitative method of finding the best performing version of CTA, copy, image, or any other variable. To start A/B testing, prepare two or more versions of a single element, randomly split your user group in two, and see which version performs better. Great tools for A/B testing are Unbounce,
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Know if UI kits are useful for your design project. Get tips for selecting and applying elements from UI kits.
We write a lot about design systems and how they can help guide your product development process. Many people, including experienced designers, don’t understand that developing a design system is a marathon, not a sprint! We want our design system to be as elegant and comprehensive as industry-leading systems like Polaris (Shopify), Carbon (IBM), iOS
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Are you looking for an app design template to inspire your next project? Our design team has put together a calming app design template to showcase the possibilities of designing with UXPin. The complete mobile app UI kit is suitable for iOS and Android devices, providing you with the foundation to build a beautiful product
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It’s a UX designer’s goal to create a seamless and positive user experience. UX design patterns are the universal building blocks design teams use to solve usability issues and create familiarity. We see many familiar design patterns in the world around us. For example, most roads separate lanes with solid or striped lines. There are
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One of the most common debates in the UX world is UX vs. UI design—where are the differences and similarities? Do you need a UX designer and a UI designer? Who does what? Should they be separated? How do they work together? The confusion arises because most institutions teach user interface design as part of
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User experience design is a process of understanding human psychology. It’s why terms like user-centered design and user experience govern the design thinking process. UX design psychology is about understanding the behaviors of the people whose problems you’re trying to solve and designing the user experience to align with those human behaviors. UXPin provides designers
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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.
In a competitive user experience design landscape, designers must ensure their UX portfolio stands out from the crowd. For some company’s a UX design portfolio is more important than where you went to school or what degree you hold. User experience is about solving human problems, which employers want to see in a UX portfolio—along
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