Accessibility testing evaluates digital products or services to ensure they can be accessed and used by individuals with disabilities. It involves assessing various websites, applications, or content aspects to identify and address barriers that hinder users with disabilities. UX teams aim to identify and rectify issues related to visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive impairments, making
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8 Design System Best Practices that Top Enterprise Companies Follow
Together with Whitespace, we hosted a webinar for hundreds of tech professionals titled: How to Overcome Challenges of Scaling a Design System? DesignOps and Product Design Leadership expert Dave Malouf moderated the event with speakers from two enterprise multinationals: This webinar provided interesting insights into how two enterprise giants approach design systems, including maintenance, scaling,
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What is Data-Driven Design and How to Use it?
Data-driven design is a method of making design decisions based on data collected by designers. It has a great potential of perfecting design in a way of fulfilling user needs and keeping them happy. Let’s learn all about it. Discover how UXPin can enhance your data-driven design process with the world’s most advanced UX design
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Free Webinar: “Strategies for Building a Resilient DesignOps Practice”
Join our upcoming webinar with DesignOps Assembly’s members. We invited Meredith Black, Salomé Mortazavi, and Adam Fry-Pierce to discuss strategies for building a resilient DesignOps practice. Build a Reliable Design Operations DesignOps strengthens your design team and processes for producing the best work possible. In difficult times, it’s extremely important to show the impact of
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8 Tips for Shaping Product Aesthetics with UI Mood Boards
Mood boards are a compilation of illustrations, newspaper cutouts, images or pieces of text put together on a physical or digital board. The purpose of a mood board is to make everyone agree on the creative direction of a project. You can use it for any creative endeavour, and it’s immensely useful in product design.
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Prototype Product Design – 9 Tips To Get You Started
Developing prototypes can lead you nowhere in product development process unless you are using the right tools and following best practices. These tips are perfect for ensuring that you prototype the right solution that has user experience in mind. Build interactive prototypes and speed up product design with UXPin Merge, powerful technology that helps designers
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Web Design Basics that Will Kick-Start Your Career
Web design basics help you get a grasp of what web design is and how it affects user experience. Let’s learn all of that in today’s article. Start your web design journey and impress clients and employers with interactive prototypes from UXPin. Sign up for a free trial and discover how UXPin’s advanced features can
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Examples of Interaction Design — Patterns and Best Practices
Interaction design is the discipline of creating intuitive interfaces that promote seamless interaction between users and products. It’s not just about UI design and visual appeal; it’s about functional, efficient, and enjoyable usage. Consider the swipe gesture on Tinder or the pull-to-refresh on Twitter or Instagram. These are the results of careful interaction design that
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Bad Product Design – 3 Examples of Poorly Designed Products
Bad product design is expensive. Visitors will leave your site if it loads for too long or if it’s too difficult to navigate. App users may stop using it if they’re unhappy with the experience once they’re presented with an alternative. Both scenarios will result in revenue loss. Simply, in the words of Ralph Speth,
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6 Mobile Navigation Examples and 8 Types You Should be Aware of
Mobile navigation is crucial for digital product design as it directly impacts user satisfaction and engagement. Many users access the web on mobile devices, so designers must prioritize mobile navigation to ensure seamless interaction and a positive user experience. Mobile navigation should be easily accessible and intuitive. Mobile users must quickly locate and understand how
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A Guide to Cross-Functional Collaboration for Designers
UX designers must collaborate effectively with various teams, departments, and stakeholders to align design with business goals, streamline processes, and create better products that meet user needs and expectations. When UX designers become effective communicators and collaborators, they enhance their networking skills and contribute to creating exceptional user experiences–emphasizing the importance of UX within an
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Alignment in Design – Making Text and Visuals More Appealing
Alignment in design is the strategic arrangement of elements relative to one another or a common baseline, creating order, harmony, and visual appeal. Designers can apply different types of alignment to various design aspects, such as typography, grid systems, and graphic elements. This alignment is crucial for guiding the user’s eye through content, enhancing readability,
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Design Team Vision Statement – Definition and Steps
A strong vision statement drives a design team’s actions while contributing to the product and organization’s success. This article explores how to create an effective design team vision statement, understand its purpose, and analyze real-world examples from leading organizations. We also provide a step-by-step framework for developing and implementing your design team’s vision statement. Align
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8 Signs That You Need a Design System
Design systems have become indispensable for product teams in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. A well-implemented design system improves visual consistency and coherence and fosters better teamwork and communication among design teams, developers, and stakeholders. It accelerates the design and development process, enhancing scalability and maintainability and improving user experiences and product quality. This article
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Typography in Web Design — How to Choose a Font?
Typography is one of the most critical website design factors, as it significantly impacts many other UI design facets, including usability, accessibility, branding, readability, and aesthetics. We explore website typography for UX design, including correct terminology, the basics, and advanced techniques designers can use to improve design decisions. Design responsive websites faster with UXPin’s advanced
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