Designing web and mobile experiences is no easy feat. It can be tough to visualize complex digital experiences you’re creating with just artboards. You should save your imagination for creating your designs, not waste it racking your brain on how they will interact in real life. That’s why we created UXPin’s new Mirror app. What
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Designing for a Dev Environment in 9 Steps | UXPin
Agile is the most common methodology for software product development today. And, it makes sense. In the waterfall days, designers and developers followed requirements that were hundreds of pages long. Products were fully designed, and then fully developed. When the product was eventually released, there was no time to go back and fix what didn’t
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Use Your Own Local Fonts in UXPin
The role of typography in design is enormous – that goes without saying. Uber has its own Uber Move, Airbnb uses Cereal across its product and brand, BBC replaced the good old Gill Sans with Reith. Seeing companies design their own custom typefaces that work alongside the brand’s aesthetics, we took the opportunity to provide
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Why Data Science and UX Design Need to Become Best Buds
Long gone are the days when design used to rely almost solely on the creativity of designers. Technologies are sophisticated, subsequently rendering users more demanding. UX design has been blurring the line between art and science. According to Adobe, 38% of people will stop engaging with a website if its layout or content is visually
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The First Built-in Accessibility Features in a Design Tool are Here
There’s no easy way to say this: Design tools have completely failed to deliver sufficient ways to help create accessible experiences. All of these have existed as plugins or external programs. Until now. Introducing the very first built-in Contrast Analyzer & Color Blindness Simulator in a design tool. According to WHO, over 1.3 billion people
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Build A Design System from Scratch in 7 Steps
What do you think of faster project turnarounds? How about consistency in all of your products? Does better UX and customer satisfaction sound good to you? This isn’t some new miracle product that’s available to buy — but you can build it yourself. Designs systems are sweeping the tech world right now, with advocates like Trello, Atlassian, Stacks, and Shopify (Check out
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8 Years on the Design Tools Market, 5 Lessons Learned
UXPin’s 8th birthday this month brought on some deeply nostalgic memories. Eight years on the design tools market has given us a pretty broad perspective. We’ve seen trends come and go, big companies enter the market and leave, companies with lots of capital doing nearly nothing and small players out–innovating everyone. One could write endlessly about
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Share Sneak Previews of Your Prototypes With Device Frames
You no longer have to imagine what your final prototype will actually look like on a device. UXPin’s new Device Frames… at your service. Imagine you’ve just poured your blood, sweat and tears into an important design project. You’re ready to shout it from the rooftops and share it with the world. But first, you
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Reflections on UXPin’s 8th Birthday
On November 11th, UXPin turned eight! Time flies! In 2010 I was 24, working as a UX Manager at a thriving Polish eCommerce company and, after several unsuccessful attempts to start a tech business (the youthful energy!), I took a break from any serious side projects. However, I still wanted to channel my energy towards something productive;
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The United States of UXPin
Introduction The creation of advanced designs and prototypes can be tricky these days. At some point, you’ll end up with dozens of artboards or pages that look nearly identical. As a designer, you know that these details are essential for the end product to be presented to your users. But does every small detail need
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Expressions: Harness The Power of JavaScript in your Prototypes
Just when you thought your prototypes couldn’t gain more superpowers, we added another to your prototyping utility belt: Expressions. Bring the power of JavaScript functions to your designs. Now you can power up your prototype in a programmatic way. Gone are the days of design tools not having math functions! We just leveled up with
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Out with Lorem Ipsum, In with Real Data
The right data, in the right place, in no time. Surprise! Now you can upload real data into your prototypes with our new Data feature. No more spending hours, even days, mocking up data for your designs. You’re welcome. Boy, are we excited to share this one with you. You should know that this new
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Introducing Variables and Conditional Interactions for More Interactive Prototyping
Your prototypes have officially gained superpowers. Now you can store or pass information using variables and add conditional interactions! Prototyping just got a whole lot more interactive. Get much closer to real, coded apps with these new features. They’ll be especially handy for user testing. Fall 2018 has been a crazy time at UXPin for all
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The Most Accurate Specs for Sketch on the Market
You asked, we listened. UXPin just unleashed the mother of all Sketch plugins. Now you can get the most accurate specs and code snippets available on the market for all of your Sketch designs. And it works faster than ever. So, what’s the main reason for this update? Designers often work in Sketch and upload
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UXPin Changelog July 2018 #10
In July, we’ve added a few features that allow building better high fidelity prototypes: new curve types for pen tool, loop for interactions, flipping elements. Also, we’ve released some enhancements to the UXPin Editor to improve the workflow. Details below. Editor and Preview [New] Asymmetric and disjointed curve types for pen tool. [New] Possibility to
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