UXPin: Welcome to the 2020 Design Trends by UXPin. Today I’m joined by Agata Orlowska. Agata, would you please tell us a little bit about yourself? Agata: I’ve been working in the UX world for almost six years. Professionally, I’m a senior UX designer and a UX researcher. Basically, I’m a one-woman army of UX
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Determining ROI for UX Investments
A study published by Forrester Research makes it clear that UX projects can have a significant influence on how much money a business earns. When companies used UX based on excellent design systems, they found that their websites: Converted 400% more consumers. Improved the willingness of customers to recommend products by16.6%. Increased customer willing to
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Ideation in Design Thinking: Importance of Approach
One of the most important jobs of a designer is to come up with new and innovative solutions to user problems. How can designers keep generating innovative ideas? The answer is in the design thinking ideation process. It allows designers to come up with fresh ideas by thinking outside the box, challenging assumptions, and exploring
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Cross-Team Collaboration on Customer Experience – 2020 Design Trends with Ramsés Cabello
UXPin: Welcome to 2020 Design Trends with UXPIN. Our guest today is Ramsés Cabello. Ramsés, can you tell us a bit about yourself, such as your work experience? What is your field of design? Ramsés: I work at GAN Integrity in Copenhagen. My role in the company is UI engineer, but I mostly work throughout
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The Emerging Importance of Experience Design
No matter what type of business you may run, finding the best methods and practices of gaining and maintaining customers for the long-term can be challenging. Indeed, given that many markets are saturated and there are literally new businesses popping up overnight, companies now need to go above and beyond to encourage customer loyalty. Nevertheless,
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How Agile Environments Revolutionize a Design Team’s Workflow?
Agile environments, teams, and manifesto. In the world of design, there is no way to escape these buzzwords that have gradually entrenched themselves in work circles around the globe. What is an agile environment and why is it so important to those in the design industry? To understand how agile environments revolutionize a design team’s
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How to Apply Strategic Design Principles to UX
Strategic design is the crossroads between user experience and business objectives. It means creating a set of design principles that guide your team through the process of building a product or experience. The principles articulate the vision and mission of your project and keep you focused on the big picture as you move through the
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We’ve open sourced the Merge CLI
The release of the recently announced UXPin Merge introduces a new era for UXPin: we’re not just for designers anymore. Merge allows frontend devs to push live, working React components to UXPin. This ensures designers are prototyping with real, up-to-date components and reduces friction in the design/dev handoff. How do developers test components locally and
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Hero Image Banners – 4 Effective Ways to Catch User’s Attention Before They Scroll
Hero image banners, also called “hero headers” dominate the top of your website or application. Typically, they spread out over the entire horizontal space. Ideally, they have high-resolution images and calls-to-action that get attention from visitors. Creative designers have made a variety of hero image formats over the years. A hero section may include navigation
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So You Want to be a UX Designer – Google Has a Boot Camp for That
With the U.S. unemployment rate hovering at around 8%, millions of Americans are in limbo either looking for a new job or unsure about when (or if) they’ll be able to go back to their pre-pandemic employment. On the bright side, a tight and unpredictable job market is the perfect time to learn a new
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Meet UXPin Merge: Quickly Launch a Design System Devs and Designers Will Love
Like Patrick Bateman inspecting Paul Allen’s business card, it’s easy to be envious when inspecting the design systems of GitHub, IBM, and Atlassian. Responsive? Check. Patterns? Check. Vector-based design libraries? Check. These systems are monuments to work-ethic, discipline, and teamwork. When a design system is launched, it dramatically reduces the time it takes to go
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UX Consulting: How To Know When You Need It
You may want to hire a UX consultant before you begin your next product development project. User experience consultants become particularly valuable when you have a team of junior designers or you want to create a product outside of your expertise. By bringing a consultant in before you start the project, you can create an
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Join our free webinar “Scaling design with DesignOps2.0”
We’re happy to let you know that we’re hosting a free webinar “Scale design efficiently with DesignOps2.0” with a guest speaker: Erica Rider from PayPal’s internal developer tools team on Oct 29th, 2020 at 10:00 PDT. Join now for free! During the webinar, Erica will share some DesignOps best practices and explain how to smoothly
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Creating A User Research Plan (with Examples)
UX research helps to test hypothesis you have about users prior to design. Sadly, not every UX design project starts with user research, and that’s because it takes a lot of time to recruit participants, run UX research projects, and sumamrize findings. Good research, nevertheless, ensures that your product team doesn’t build the wrong functionality
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Average Cost of a Well-Done Website Design (Or Redesign)
The average cost of website design is anywhere from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars. There are several factors and options that will affect the cost of your project, which is why it is hard to pin down the exact cost of such an endeavor before you begin. While it may
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