Design simplicity is a term companies use without truly understanding its meaning. As discussed in this article, simpler isn’t always better, and how designers apply simplicity can have positive and negative effects. This article defines what UX design simplicity is (and isn’t), some common misconceptions, and strategies for implementing its principles. Simplify your product design
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6 UX Security Tips for Product Designers
In the second quarter of 2022, internet users worldwide fell victim to around 52 million data privacy breaches. This clearly shows the importance of cybersecurity, and that the role of a UX designer goes beyond making apps user-friendly. It’s about finding balance between usability and security, which need to go hand in hand. In this
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UX Honeycomb – 7-Factor Design Framework for Great User Experience
Peter Morville’s User Experience Honeycomb has been around since 2004 and is still a highly relevant design framework for modern product development projects. The framework forces design teams to evaluate a product through seven facets of user experience to identify areas for improvement. This article provides an overview of the UX Honeycomb and the circumstances
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Automotive UX UI Basics – Designing Car Interfaces
Automotive UX is one of the most rapidly evolving and exciting user experience disciplines. It requires designers to shift their thinking from keeping users engaged to designing for safety. This article explores the exciting world of automotive UX and six key challenges designers must overcome to deliver safe yet enjoyable driving experiences. Design, prototype, test,
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Turn Figma Designs into Interactive Prototypes
After more than a decade of research and development, UXPin has surpassed design tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe XD to create an end-to-end design solution with advanced prototyping, which, traditionally, designers could only achieve if they had an engineering background. Where these image-based tools have evolved to offer design teams a better user experience,
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Design System Glossary – 34 Powerful Terms You Should Know
Design systems can be very confusing and complicated if you don’t fully understand the terminology associated with them. It’s important for designers and developers alike to be on the same page for the most effective communication efforts. For this reason, we have comprised some key terms along with associated applications and examples to provide a
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UX Benchmarking Guide – Where Should You Take the Data From?
UX benchmarking is crucial for identifying areas for improvement and achieving product goals. Benchmarks give design teams a baseline from industry standards, competitors, or previous performance to improve a digital product’s user experience. This article provides a high-level overview of UX benchmarking, how to find relevant benchmarks, and a three-step process for conducting successful benchmark
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Improve Your Team’s Roadmap and Build Better Products
Whether an early-stage startup or a multi-national organization, a product roadmap is essential for aligning teams toward achieving the company’s goals and objectives. This article includes valuable tips from product experts about creating and maintaining a successful product roadmap. We’ve also included a list of tools to simplify the process of building one. Streamline product
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BASIC UX Framework – Definition, Benefits, and Application
The BASIC UX framework is as simple as its name suggests. Designers measure a product against a set of UX principles to identify usability issues. These principles apply to web design, mobile apps, and other digital products. What makes BASIC UX great is it’s a checklist template design teams can adopt and adapt to meet
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Creating Engaging Mobile App Design – All You Need to Know
It’s predicted that by 2023, the mobile apps market will reach $935 billion in sales. Pretty impressive, right? However, to get a piece of that cake, you need to make sure that your app design is not only pleasing to the eye but also easy to use. Only then you’ll be able to generate high
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How to Hook Users With Habit-Forming UX Design
Apple. Facebook. Twitter. Google. Pinterest. These companies all have one thing in common–they create habits among their users. People use these products habitually on a daily basis, and they’re so compelling that many of us struggle to imagine life before they existed. But creating habits is easier said than done. Even though I’ve written extensively
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What is Component-Driven Prototyping?
Component-driven prototyping is the next iteration of user experience design. Designers no longer design from scratch, and engineers write less code. The result? Better cross-functional collaboration, faster time-to-market, superior consistency, fewer errors, better testing, meaningful stakeholder feedback, and smoother design handoffs. Sound too good to be true? All of these benefits are possible and more
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Switching Design Toolstack to Design at Scale
Scaling UX is a challenge many design leaders encounter. With limited resources, it’s often impossible to hire more designers. But even if you do have the resources, is hiring to scale a viable and sustainable strategy? This article looks at how organizations can scale design simply by switching their tool stack. We also provide an
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Brand Consistency – Check How You Can Boost it with Design
UX design has a significant impact on brand consistency. A product’s visual aesthetic and usability are often the first thing people notice and, therefore, must relate to the brand and create a strong first impression. Brand consistency in UX design goes beyond using a brand logo, correct colors, and fonts. Designers must create an experience
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Top 8 Design Podcasts that You Should Listen to
There are podcasts for everything now nowadays, including UX design. These design podcasts provide incredible insights from leading UX experts from some of the biggest and most innovative companies. One problem–where do you find them, and which are the best design podcasts? Here are UXPin’s best design podcasts featuring many UX experts and innovators. While
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