The design process is a collaborative effort where designers seek input and ideas from other design teams, product teams, engineers, and other stakeholders. Design collaboration tools help bring these people and ideas into a centralized workflow to increase productivity and streamline projects. UXPin Merge is a design technology that’s able to sync design and development,
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Product Design Degrees That Will Help You Land A Job
Choosing the right degree for your dream job can be a daunting task. The average cost of a four-year degree program that’s earned while living on campus is $26,000 to $223,000. Regardless of what university you choose and the price you pay, these costs make finding a job after graduation from a state university is
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10 Product UX Design Tips for Building Top-Notch Solutions
User experience design helps you sell your product, and keep the users’ engaged. It’s a universal principle no matter what product design role you hold, be it industrial design, graphic design, or digital product design. It’s also true regardless of the tool you’re using. It can be Figma, Sketch, or our tool – UXPin. UX
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Best Examples of Product Design
As technology continues to advance, so do human expectations. The average person spends about 10 hours a day on devices while interacting with thousands of different platforms. When coupled with the downtrend in attention spans, little room is left for products that are not designed with the user experience in mind. In today’s article, we
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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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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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How to Design a Product in 5 Steps
The quality of design is about more than offering a visually-appealing interface; it has a direct impact on the product’s commercial success. According to McKinsey & Company, using design thinking methods leads to a 35% increase in revenue. It also prompts a 56% increase in return compared to businesses that put product design in the
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Top Books About Product Design that Will Push Your Skills Forward
As UX designers, our prime job is to enhance user experience via creative, technologically-sound designs. The market out there is constantly evolving, and as dynamic professionals in the UX design field, it’s essential for us to explore new arenas to boost the quality of our work. UX books are a great way to gain insight
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What is Product Design?
Businesses that prioritize product and good design have a significant advantage. With so many choices for software products on the market, users are looking for apps that cater to their specific needs and use cases. In fact, 32% of customers will abandon a brand or product if they have just one bad user experience. That’s
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The Future of Product Design – Top Predictions Around AI, VUI, Design Process, and More
We’ve looked at various trends and technology to make predictions for the future of product design. Rather than put on a tinfoil hat and talk about flying cars, we’ve focused on how current tech will evolve and identified some real opportunities for product designers and developers to innovate. This article explores six key topics: AI,
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10 Examples of Design Decisions and How to Make them
Design decisions define the direction and outcome of design projects. Designers use research and data to validate assumptions and eliminate biases during the decision-making process. Making decisions is one part of this process. Design teams must also articulate their thought process to get stakeholders, engineers, and product owners on the same page. Articulate your design
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Code to Design vs. Design to Code – Which is Better?
Just completed the final iteration of your prototype? Great! Let’s send the design to the development team, so they can translate it to code. Here the question pops up: is design to code really the best direction you can hope for? Actually, there’s a second model of working: pushing code to design and working with
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How to Create a Wireframe? Step-by-Step Guide + Examples
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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How to Write a Good Design Brief? [+ Templates]
A design brief is crucial in guiding the design process toward a successful outcome where designers meet client/stakeholder expectations. A good design brief can avoid costly scope creep, missed deadlines, poor communication, and inferior results. Enhance your design projects with the world’s most advanced collaborative design tool. Create high-fidelity prototypes that look and feel like
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