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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Design Consistency Guide UI and UX Best Practices
A step-by-step guide filled with examples.
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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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Double Diamond Design Process – The Best Framework for a Successful Product Design
The Double Diamond design process is a widely used methodology for identifying a problem and developing a solution. This outcomes-based framework encourages creativity and innovation while focusing on the core issue and its impact on end-users. It was introduced by the British Council so that designers could follow a standardized design process and make that
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How to Choose the Best UX Tool
Are you searching for the best UX tool? If so, then you might have noticed that the tools out there vary greatly in terms of the features they offer. Because of that, it can be hard to assess if the user experience software you’re considering genuinely has all you need. Or, even, if you’ll need
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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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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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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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A Hands-On Guide to Mobile-First Responsive Design
Learn mobile-first design with this lesson created by a web designer with 20+ years experience. See the process complete with instructions and examples.
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The Basic Principles of User Interface Design
A good user interface is critical to a good user experience. If the interface doesn’t allow people to easily use the website or app, they won’t use the product or they’ll overwhelm tech support with costs, ballooning costs. UI has real, tangible business impacts. Paying attention to it isn’t window dressing, it’s crucial to a
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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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What is a Prototype? A Guide to Functional UX
A prototype is an early model or simulation of a product used to test and validate ideas before full-scale production. Prototypes vary in fidelity from simple sketches of a user interface to fully interactive digital models that resemble the final product. They serve to gather user feedback, identify usability issues, and refine design concepts, helping
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10 UX UI Design Trends that Dominate 2024
AI in design, animated icons, cross platform UX are some of the most exciting 2024 UX and UI design trends. Our research has also noticed an interesting UX UI trend toward larger screens, with Instagram improving its desktop experience to accommodate the growing demand. Create high-quality, fully functioning prototypes to test your UI design ideas
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Best Design Conferences in 2024
One of the best things about being a part of the design community is that most designers love to exchange ideas, spread knowledge, and share their experiences regardless of their seniority level. You can be a starting designer or an established thought leader, and it’s almost a given that you find a design conference that
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Responsive Design vs. Adaptive Design: What’s the Best Choice for Designers?
Google has always recommended responsive web design (RWD), especially after rolling out a big update on 4/21/15 which ranked mobile-friendly sites higher. It doesn’t specify in the update that you must use responsive design though, just that a site be accessible on mobile, with good UX and performance. With that in mind, let’s examine the
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