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Photo Credit: x-ray delta one 3 Things That Every Startup Has to Build 8 years ago, soon after high school, I’ve worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken for a couple of months. Tough job to start a career, but I really wanted to buy an awesome guitar and I needed money for that. The first day

Folks organizing Convey UX Conference created a survey aiming at listing the tools most valued by UX Professionals. I’m extremely proud to say, that UXPin was chosen The Most Valued UX Tool in the Wireframing Category. Hurray! We got fewer votes than our respected competitors from Axure, Balsamiq and Omnigraffle (which is perfectly reasonable –

Jump high and catch the growth! Photo Credit: Emery_Way via Compfight cc Hack the Growth! Growth Hacking in UXPin In his famous blog post Startup = Growth, Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, said: “A startup is a company designed to grow fast.”. Planing and executing a growth strategy is the straight way to business

Photo Credit: star5112 via Compfight cc Cloud App working, even if you’re offline Imagine this super scary situation: You’re working in you favorite cloud app (let say it’s a wireframing app). Suddenly…. BAM, you lost your Internet connection. The app stopped working and most probably you lost your data. That’s scary, right? We thought so.

2012 meant a huge increase in the number of customers for us, so it was by all means a very successful UXPin year! But with success comes responsibility*. Our customers have a wide range of needs and send more feedback than ever before (thank you!). However, we in the UXPin team hasn’t had the manpower

We’re dead serious about our plans of revolutionizing User Experience Design and to make it happen we need the best people to work with us. This month two great, experienced, advisors joined our Advisory Board. Big applause and warm welcome for Irene and Hiten! Irene Au – is a VP of Product and User Experience

UXPin is a revolution. We want to popularize responsible* approach to UX Design and empower web&mobile product teams with extraordinary force of dedicated UX tools. This is so exciting! Happily, you share this excitement with us. In just six months UXPin grew 500%! Thank you! UX Design App accelerates growth thanks to Lean Startup As

The growth of the User Experience Design field is breathtaking but well deserved. Thanks to UX Designers all over the world, the quality of products has increased dramatically. Design really does matter now. It’s a user-centric world in which there’s not only Apple on the scene anymore. Samsung gizmos look better than ever. Google has

UXPin was started by UX Designers and we deeply care for our field and community. Therefore from time to time, you’ll find on this blog our opinions on most important UX topics. Back in 2010 question „Can User Experience be designed?” became strangely popular. User Experience field, which really had just started to grow worldwide,

“This is decade of User Experience Design”, we’ve heard that many times during meetings with inspiring people such as Dave McClure, Paul Singh, Hiten Shah, Brandon Schauer… The questions is though how to accelerate the good design. Most appropriate answer: by teaching people how to design. Who is supposed to teach them? You are. Start

You wouldn’t believe how surprised we were at the end of April in huge conference room at Ergo Arena in Gdansk. We thought UXPin is way too hermetic, rooted in the design world, to get any serious awards. Suddenly the hosts shouted out our company name: „The winner is UXPin!!!” and jaw-dropped or not we’ve

Soon after launch of first UXPin notepads, Bruno Figueiredo, contacted us to discuss sponsorship of the UXLX 2011. We were extremely surprised. UXLX? The conference that we couldn’t afford to go the year before? Wow. We were just starting with UXPin and we didn’t know back than that we’ll not only sponsor UXLX 2011, but

Mike Kuniavsky and me (Marcin Treder, UXPin CEO) at UXLX. User Experience is a lucky field and community. Our heroes are truly inspiring people. I had this impression for the first time when I’ve met Don Norman. I was impressed by his general wisdom that transcends knowledge and passion for great design. Every minute spent

You might have heard that our background is in user experience design and usability. We’ve spent years improving other companies products and damn… we love it. We’re obsessed with perfect experience and perfect products. No wonder that we started improvement of UXPin with classic usability study. Oh, we’ve learned a lot about our own mistakes.

After couple of very busy weeks, finally I have time to tell you next part of our San Francisco Story. I started to miss recalling UXPin’s awesome startup mission in USA and sharing it with you guys! Let’s go back to March 20th. Excited after meeting with Brandon Schauer (Adaptive Path) we were rushing through