UI
Today, many designers know the basics of HTML and CSS. Some hard-liners design in code, but that isn’t effective for complex projects; designers need the ability to explore a proof of concept quickly before committing to it.
The Benefits of a Design System: Making Better Products, Faster
Design systems increase collaboration, ensure consistency, and accelerate design and development cycles.
"Sainath is a project designer with 4 years of UI experience who specializes in building design systems. His clients include e-commerce websites."
A Streamlined Design-to-production Workflow
On the baby product site, before we implement a new design it goes through a series of stages. First, designers prototype and hand over a design to a UX researcher for validation, or alpha testing. Next, we share the prototype with stakeholders. Then we push the update to a small audience and track the results of the change with A/B testing. This learning cycle, also known as beta testing, repeats until we get a sufficiently high success metric. We may work on more than five variations of a design, discarding many of them throughout these stages to expedite finding the best solution.
Recently another UI designer and I took a month to build a design system for a leading e-commerce site that provides baby products to mothers across the Middle East. Using insights from the experience of building a design system for this website and app–which I’ll refer to as “the baby product site” or “the baby product app”—I’ll lay out how design systems enable teams to improve products and increase efficiency.
UX
Impact of Minimalist UX Design
Minimalism is a prevalent design approach, but putting its principles into practice is challenging. Follow these minimalist UX design strategies to build frictionless digital products that help users reach their goals. Many people are familiar with minimalism’s core doctrine: “Less is more.” But implementing that tenet can be difficult. Case in point: In a series of eight experiments by researchers at the University of Virginia, when presented with a problem, most people considered what they could add to solve it and overlooked what they could remove.
"Prem is a UI & UX designer with a deep passion and interest in solving user problems and aimed to design a holistic experience that is intuitive and logical for the users to use through research, ideation, and design. Having vast of experience in dealing product management, customer experience with several startup companies.
Guide Users With Formal Visual Elements
Formal elements like typography, color, layout, and photography should be more than visually pleasing. They should serve a purpose like directing the user’s attention or conveying meaning.
Layout
In addition to minimal typography, the Swiss Style relied heavily on the grid system, an organizational strategy that designers use to help them align content and create layouts that are consistent across pages and screen sizes. Using grids, designers can establish visual hierarchy and highlight important content—making pages easier to scan and navigate. Three common types of grids used in minimal interfaces are columns, modular, and hierarchical.
Boost Your UI/UX Knowledge
Online games can also help designers improve their UI/UX knowledge and create frictionless experiences that increase conversion rates and ROI. Can’t Unsee enriches your overall UI/UX abilities by testing your knowledge of design concepts, such as hierarchy, contrast, alignment, typography, and component styling. The screen shows two design components and asks you to select the more user-friendly option. Components may look identical to the untrained eye, but an expert designer should be able to tell them apart by noticing small differences between the elements, such as misaligned text or uneven padding.
