Designers create prototypes to perfect product’s look and feel, validate their design choices, and find areas for improvements. The final product is an implemented design that gets released into the market. Both prototypes and final products are essential elements of product design process. Let’s explore the differences between them. Key takeaways: Design interactive prototypes that
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Design tools like Figma use components as basic elements that can be copied and pasted across design. Components speed up design, promote consistency, and simplify designer’s work. Let’s see how Figma’s components are different from components in UXPin and Merge technology. Optimize design-to-development handoff, create prototypes that are full of interactive UI components, such as
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Fidelity refers to the level of detail and realism in a prototype or design. It represents how closely the prototype resembles the final product in terms of visual design, interactions, and functionality. High-fidelity prototypes are highly realistic and aim to simulate the final user experience as closely as possible. High-fidelity prototypes (hi-fi prototypes) include visual
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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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User flows are integral to the UX design process. These valuable UX artifacts help product teams visualize flows and processes from users’ perspectives to reduce errors and enhance the user experience. This article takes a deep dive into user flows, their importance, the principles that guide them, the visual representations, and the various types of
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Well-designed microinteractions enhance the user experience by providing reinforcement and feedback. Without microinteractions, user interfaces would be dull and lifeless. Like it or not, digital products play on human psychology. When you see the flashing “typing…” in chat or social media apps, you want to stick around to see what the person’s going to say.
Design-to-code is a familiar workflow. Designers create a prototype using a design tool, and developers convert it to code–a simplified version of the standard product development process. UXPin Merge turns this process upside down with a revolutionary code-to-design workflow. This article explains code to design and how it enhances the product development process with four
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Wireframing is a crucial part of the design process, where designers typically complete most of the work, including information architecture, layout, structure, identifying key navigational elements, and screen transitions. The more work designers complete during wireframing, the less they do during the mockup and high-fidelity prototyping phases, thus streamlining the design process. UXPin features built-in
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Form inputs allow users to engage with digital products, brands, and other users. Choosing the appropriate input field and structure is crucial for designing a good form UX so users can complete tasks efficiently. This article looks at individual input elements, the problems they solve, and how UX teams use them. We also provide tips
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Interactions are vital for prototyping because they provide usability participants and stakeholders with a realistic user experience. The problem many designers have is building interactive components is time-consuming, and the results are underwhelming in most design tools. Discover component-driven prototyping with UXPin Merge and how you can use interactive components to create fully functional prototypes
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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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FinTech is a challenging industry for any discipline, but especially so for UX designers. FinTech design requires designers to study financial regulations, which could differ between states and countries. These financial regulations are often detailed and extensive, meaning lots of reading before designers can even begin a project. This article explores the basics of FinTech
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One of the challenges with prototyping using a design tool is the lack of fidelity and functionality, preventing designers from completing comprehensive and accurate user testing. Live-data prototypes seek to solve this prototyping issue by replicating the dynamic experience of code with data from user inputs. Designers must work with a front-end developer or UX
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Springboard’s online learning platform lists UX engineers (aka UX unicorns) as one of the most in-demand jobs in 2022. Creating an attractive UX engineer portfolio will help you stand out. We share tips on how to build a UX engineer portfolio, what info to share, and examples at the end for inspiration. Improve collaboration and
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Building a website is more accessible than ever. There are tons of web design tools catering to everyone, from newbies to professional designers and developers. We’ve put together a list of the best website design tools and we organized it into three categories (feel free to jump to the section that best describes your web
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