In recent years, Design Systems have become the quintessential tool for bringing product development teams together. Despite this, many teams struggle to make the upfront investment required to reap their rewards. — Written by Mark Boyes-Smith, Director of Product Design at InVision. With the conversation around Design Systems maturing, I’m interested in understanding how we might adopt a lean mindset when creating design systems.

Today we’re expanding InVision’s presence on Medium with the release of the Design Better publication, an extension of DesignBetter.com. View Design Better on Medium For nearly 2 years we’ve been hard at work building Design Better to share the best practices for product design and development. We’ve published a library…

Most organizations have caught on to the fact that design is more than just an art for making things look pretty. …

We often receive questions that go something like this: Hey, my company sets up our design department like [X]. Is that normal? Digital product design is such a nascent practice that we often don’t have a good answer for what is normal, what is a unique breakthrough, and what is…

Motion design requires the right combination of creativity, big thinking, and technical skills. And, of course, the right tool to bring those concepts to life. We found some of our favorite motion design examples on Dribbble, all made in InVision Studio so you can see what the tool can do. ’Tis the season to get moving …

We can get swept up in the “now” of our careers without ever considering where we’re heading or whether there’ll be space for us when we get there. Think about the careers and skills that didn’t exist a decade ago — and with this in mind, it’s a smart idea…

To help get you rocking and rolling on your next project, we’ve collected 10 of our favorite microinteractions on Dribbble. And all of them were created using InVision Studio. — I appreciate the small things in life: a greeting smile from my neighbor, a tiny postcard from my mom, or a loyalty stamp card from my favorite coffee shop. When it comes to design, I always get excited by these same tiny details: meaningful transitions, cute animations, and microinteractions.

There are very few industries as dynamic and fast-paced as UX, and every year seems to bring a fresh wave of trends, challenges, and talking points. — Throughout 2018, we saw an increased focus on data-driven UX, accompanied by the rise of the UX researcher role. Privacy by design was also something of a hot topic in light of the GDPR, and a brand new buzzword arrived on the scene: DesignOps. As 2018 comes to an end…