Many organizations struggle to free themselves of legacy systems and the headaches they possess. These outdated ecosystems present many challenges, including user experience and digital innovation. The burdens of legacy technology are why challenger banks can compete with traditional banks, adopt sophisticated technology, and deliver products to customers significantly faster. This article explores the challenges
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We partnered with UXPin users dotSource to demonstrate how an agency working on multiple products, each with its own design system, leverages Merge technology to create a single source of truth between design and development. Create a single source of truth for your product’s design system with UXPin Merge. Visit our Merge page for more
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Merge’s npm integration gives design teams more control to import fully functional component libraries from the npm registry. The benefit of designing prototypes with a component library is designers get full functionality and fidelity without writing a single line of code! If you’re unsure what any of this “npm stuff” means, don’t worry, this article
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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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Component-driven prototyping significantly improves user testing while providing stakeholders with realistic product design expectations. UXPin’s npm integration enables design teams to use open-source component libraries to design fully functioning, high-fidelity prototypes. Get on board the code-based design revolution with UXPin’s Merge technology and npm Integration. Discover more about component-driven prototyping that maximizes the use of
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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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Material Design is one of the most popular design systems. If you own an Android device, you use Material Design daily. Many companies use the Material Design System as a foundation for building mobile and web applications. The system’s comprehensive component library and resources, including Material Icons (now Material Symbols), give organizations and startups the
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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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In May 2022, UXPin had the pleasure of hosting the lovely Amber Jabeen, DesignOps Director at Delivery Hero MENA (talabat), for a webinar titled: Enterprise Design System – How to Build and Scale. This article summarizes part of Amber’s talk where she discusses her team’s challenges with getting design system buy-in and what she would
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Designers and engineers must understand each other’s challenges and work together to solve them. Designers want the entire product development team to understand user experience and design thinking, while engineers need team members to help fight front-end debt. This article explores front-end debt, common solutions to the problem, and how design teams can assist engineers
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In May 2022, UXPin hosted Amber Jabeen, DesignOps Director at Delivery Hero MENA (talabat), for a webinar titled: Enterprise Design System – How to Build and Scale. This article covers the second half of Amber’s talk, which focuses on Delivery Hero’s design system adoption strategy. You can find a summary on our blog. “The success
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Many digital products only exist on mobile, but they often adapt web component libraries for native mobile apps. According to a Clarity 2020 talk, “less than 10% of public design systems support platforms other than the web?” Unlike web-based design systems, mobile design systems must adapt to native operating systems and platform-specific UI patterns. What
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We often associate dashboard design with enterprise products. But dashboards are everywhere, including social media applications, games, and even our mobile devices. These dashboards show users critical information in a succinct visualization that’s easy to digest. Let’s explore dashboard UI design and prototyping plus some best practices to ensure you create amazing dashboard user experiences
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In February 2022, UXPin hosted a free webinar with DesignOps expert Dave Malouf titled Holistic Design Operations. Dave discusses how he and his team solved the “human operational problem” to break down silos–a common issue with large and enterprise organizations. Join us for the May 2022 webinar about building centralized design system for enterprises. Sign
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Many programming languages use packages to build and scale websites, software, and other digital products. These packages allow engineers to extend a project’s functionality without writing and maintaining additional code. This article will explain these terms from a designer’s perspective, so you get a basic understanding of how packages work and why engineers use them.