Design | Experience
No matter what context you work in as a UX designer, at one point or another, you’ll probably be asked to redesign a user experience. At the start of your UX career, you might even conduct an unsolicited redesign to help build up your portfolio.
Either way, you might find yourself redesigning a website, an app, or the interface of … Read the rest
White space is a technique used when creating design layouts to ensure that your page’s important elements and content have room to breathe. Using white space is quite simple. Whether you want to emphasize an image, a graphic, or some text, all you need to do is leave blank space around the particular item you want users to focus on. … Read the rest
Here are some strategies for revamping a design system:
Conduct a design audit
Review the visual design elements used by the company to ensure consistency across all channels. This can help identify areas for improvement and ensure the brand image is consistent.
Define design principles
Establish design principles and rules for the system.
Create a pattern library
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Implementing a design system takes more than the creation of the system itself. I will argue that it is more important to focus strategic integration within an organization’s workflows and culture than it is to design a great system.
Having been involved in 3 design system rollouts in my
UX design documentation is a vital part of any project that involves creating or improving user interfaces and experiences. It helps you communicate your design vision, rationale, and process to various stakeholders, such as clients, developers, testers, and users. However, creating effective UX design documentation can be challenging, especially if you don’t have a clear scope and goals for it. … Read the rest
Design Patterns For Effective Dashboards. Practical guidelines for designing better dashboards and UX patterns to keep in mind ↓
🚫 Don’t destroy user value by oversimplification.
✅ Oftentimes life is complex and tools must match life.
✅ Dashboard value is measured by useful actions it prompts.
✅ Aim to create understanding, rather than showing raw data.
✅ Start by studying … Read the rest
Design System In 90 Days Canvas (FigJam template) (Link) , with useful prompts to get a design system up and running — and adopted! — in 90 days, for small and large organizations that are building a design system or plan to set up one. Kindly shared by Dan Mall as a part of the Design System University. … Read the rest
Wow, this overview of different types of design systems by Dan Mall is eye-opening!
It’s fascinating to see how each aspect, from visual language to practice, plays a unique and crucial role in creating a successful design system. I never realized the various levels of maturity and the importance of shared ownership and value to drive adoption. These additional resources … Read the rest
VMware inhouse Clarity Design System is a end-to-end design language to create simple, intuitive and beautiful experiences. Design System is a collection of UI components, foundations, and standards that help teams build beautiful product experiences. It offers three approaches for utilizing Clarity: just the UX guidelines, UX guidelines and our HTML/CSS framework, or and Angular implementation.
Clarity follows the … Read the rest