Whether you’re redesigning an application or working on something totally new, building your wireframes can be a tricky process. Creating good wireframes requires a combination of research analysis and intuition.
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The qualitative and quantitative data you gather from users and stakeholders plays a big part in guiding your design.
But at some point…
How Shopify is making Polaris more cohesive by emphasizing user insights
Shopify is an all-in-one commerce platform that helps users start, run, and grow a business. Offering online retailers a suite of services including payments, marketing, shipping, and customer engagement tools, Shopify powers over 1,000,000 businesses worldwide. From 2016 to 2019, businesses on Shopify contributed $319 billion in economic activity worldwide.
Polaris by Shopify is an open-source design system that helps create a consistent user experience for merchants. The system consists of a set of guidelines and principles which designers can use while building apps and channels for Shopify. Polaris provides resources and building elements, holding all the building blocks needed…
From cities and transport to food and wearables, design fiction spawns projects that are not only food for our dreams but also an incentive for a better future. Here, we cherry-picked some of the most vivid and beautiful examples of speculative design.
Speculative Design is one of the most exciting ways for designers to practice problem solving by design. Using Design Thinking and other methods, we can broaden our scope and develop boundary-pushing systems and prototypes that spur discussion about alternative ways of being and encourage imagination to flow freely. Design speculations have the potential to become the catalysts for redefining our relationship to reality and cultures; the results are truly inspiring, with a seductive vividness and a promise of a far future that is not far from science fiction stories.
Take a step into the future with these amazing examples of…
