Mastering the art of prototyping is akin to wielding a powerful toolset that empowers designers and developers to iterate, refine, and ultimately deliver products that resonate deeply with their audience. In this article, we embark on a journey through the spectrum of prototype fidelity, from low-fi sketches to high-fi interactive simulations. Each step of the
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Unity in Design – Basic Design Concepts Revisted
Unity in UI design is the cohesive arrangement of different elements within a user interface to create a visually harmonious and coherent experience for the end user. It involves organizing interface components such as buttons, icons, text, images, and other graphical elements in a way that they appear to belong together and form a unified
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Product Updates August 2024
Here are product updates that were released in UXPin in the last two months. They include new features, such as Paste & Replace, Flexbox for UXPin Merge, and a couple of usability and user management updates. Paste & Replace This feature allows you to copy an element to your clipboard, and then, swap it for
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UX Design Process – An Actionable, 7-Step Guide
UX design process is systematic, iterative, and structured series of actions that is necessary for designing user experience. It helps teams to follow easy-to-replicate steps to deliver interfaces while meeting the organization’s quality standards. Build prototypes with UI components that are backed with code and never let pixels derail your UX design process ever again.
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Top 3 Design System Structures
Many teams envision creating a design system as a difficult, time-consuming project. It forces team members to audit their user interface, create a repository of design system elements and design guidelines and combine it in a way it’s usable for the entire organization It’s not the only way you structure a design system, though. There
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Color Tokens in Open Beta – Simplify Color Management
As part of our commitment to help you create consistent user interfaces, we’re excited to introduce Color Tokens — a powerful tool that brings a new level of precision and organization to your design workflow. In open beta, you can set up a color token library, easily update your design system and control colors of
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Admin UI — How to Design it Fast for a React App
Admin UI is a graphical user interface designed for administrators to manage and control a system, application, or website. This interface is distinct from the regular user interface and provides advanced features and controls necessary for overseeing and configuring various aspects of the system. The Admin UI often includes functionalities such as user management, access
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Table UX Best Practices – What Makes a Good Data Table?
Tables are essential components for many enterprise UX projects. UX designers must find the best UX table design solution to visualize and sort data according to user needs. This article explores table UX design best practices with examples to solve common content and usability issues. We also provide links to resources to help research specific
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Bootstrap vs React Bootstrap — A Quick Overview
Bootstrap is a popular open-source front-end framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites. It was developed by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton at Twitter and released in 2011. Bootstrap itself does not use React, but there are integrations like React-Bootstrap that provide Bootstrap components as React components. This library eliminates jQuery dependency and are more
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DesignOps at Uber – Who Are Design Program Managers?
At UXPin’s 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. One of those speakers was Maggie Dieringer, Senior Design Program Manager at Uber. Maggie has worked as a DPM at Uber since 2016 on the Rides and Eats products
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Want to Convert Design To Code? Here’s A Better Way
Whether creating a web page, Android app, or iOS app, most traditional designers start their work by creating static images with tools like Adobe XD, Figma, or even Photoshop. The designs might look aesthetically pleasing but they are not even close to being ready to be converted into code. After the designing phase, designers need
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Paper Prototyping: The 10-Minute Practical Guide
In the high-tech digital UX design world, pen and paper can still be the preferred choices for fast low-fidelity prototyping. Contrary to assumptions, UX teams spend a lot of time away from the computer, writing on sticky notes, whiteboards, notepads, and adding annotations to paper prototypes. The more planning and preparation designers can do before
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11 Best Material UI Alternatives
Material UI, developed and maintained by MUI, is a popular React component library that implements Google’s Material Design guidelines. It offers a comprehensive set of reusable and customizable components, such as buttons, cards, menus, form elements, predefined styles, and themes. The library promotes a modular and structured approach to building user interfaces, enabling developers to
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7 Best Code Editors for Your Development Needs
Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, and with it comes the need for skilled developers who can efficiently write and manage code. A significant aspect of coding is having the right tools to maximize productivity and streamline the development process. This is where code editors come in. In the vast and ever-evolving world of
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Join our Free Webinar: “Removing Friction from Design System Workflows”
Collaboration doesn’t end at the design handoff stage, right? Yet, seldomly is it discussed what happens next. We’re inviting you to a webinar that will show you how enterprise teams like Porsche, IBM, and Salesforce collaborate to boost their design system adoption and scale consistency. Spoiler alert! You can replicate those strategies to amplify collaboration
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