The Top 4 Pain Points UX/UI Designers Are Facing

Insights from Anima’s 2019 survey

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Nov 4 · 4 min read

Recently, we turned to our beloved community with a user survey to better understand our users.

We were excited that over 400 Designers & Developers took the survey, and we wanted to thank everyone who took the time to participate 🙏.

In the survey, we were focusing on the challenges and pain points that designers and developers are facing today. Our goal is to understand you a little better and learn how to improve Anima for you.

Here are 4 of the most common challenges you brought up:

1. Team Collaboration

By far, team collaboration is the most common challenge mentioned.
The top issue that came up is the design to development handoff.

Designers are feeling frustrated when they can’t control the end product. Especially when the implementation doesn’t match the design.

2. Not Enough Time

The second problem was the lack of time. And we can relate …

The most common issue is not having enough time for user research. Some of you said you have to fight for user research. Decision-makers undervalued the importance and influence of user research due to time pressure or budget limitations.

3. Maintaining a Design System

Maintaining consistent design systems when multiple people are working on the same project can be quite hard. It requires a lot of effort and collaborative work.

We’ve found that one of the main challenges while building a design system is keeping the design and code in sync. A design system should be flexible and easy to update and requires everyone’s involvement and adoption.

4. Complicated Design Tools

With the ongoing evolution of design tools, the central claim we’re hearing is that it’s hard to keep up with all the design tools out there. Some of the tools solve particular parts of the workflow, but lack the integration to other tools. This means switching between different tools and doing the same work twice.

Some of the Interesting Requested Features 💡

  • Auto Responsiveness
  • Make it work perfectly with Smart-Layout
  • Lottie Animations / SVG Animation Support
  • Integrate Anima with Figma & Adobe XD too

What’s Next? 🧐

Anima is evolving, and your insights and feedback are what’s driving our innovation.

Our goal at Anima is to enable designers and engineers work as one.
We empower professionals with stronger collaboration tools, and translating design into code. If you haven’t read it already, here’s a glimpse to what’s next.

In addition, one of our core values at Anima, is not to change the way you work overnight, but to blend in. For designers, it means integrating with your existing tools. For engineers, it means working with your code conventions and frameworks, and not stepping on your toes.

And finally, this is only the beginning. Stay tuned!

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❤️ Anima team

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