Category: UI
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Why a Design System?
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in Design, Design Ops, Design Systems, Design Team, Digital, Product design, UI, UI Design, UX, UX DesignWhy does your company need a design system? Thats a very good question which can be answered by this statement: “A design system helps to implement a strong brand by employing a consistent look and feel” A design system is an investment which is usually developed from live style guides that have been produced by…
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Internal Design Agency
I’m working on improving our product design across our live NHS solutions for our company. This process is to formalise our design resource with an organised approach to production with our wider product team. To implement this I’m starting to run my design team as an internal design agency with a group of ‘clients’ which…
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Mobile Style Guide
I’ve just completed a mobile style guide to support our product team and further define our brand’s look and feel. This builds on my previous style guide that included desktop, responsive web and mobile. Following considerable back end improvements our mobile team where implementing I was able to review several components for our app. This…
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Staff Organisation
It is sometimes a significant UI/UX challenge to design solutions for systems that will help organise large staff groups. In my current role I’m working on new ways to roster NHS staff for large UK based trusts. Keeping complex systems easy to use for the main user groups is very important in my user centred…
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UX/UI Backlog
I’ve been working on a design audit of our live products, I’m looking for anything that will help us bring together our cross product look and feel. Picking up anything that is inconsistent in the UI and generally aiming for brand unity. Following on from this recent work I’m capturing the UI and UX inconsistencies…
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Product UI Consistency
It can be a challenge bringing consistency to multiple products which are available from the same company. It’s important to present a uniform look and feel to the end user so they can see the relationship within the product suite. I’m currently working on a group of products that have been developed with by seperate…
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Rostering Solutions
My current UI/UX challenge is designing a complex rostering solution for NHS workers. Working in close collaboration with our stakeholders, product owners and the development teams we have been progressing through our user stories. We are working towards producing an intuaitive solution for the busy keyworkers in our hospitals. This is part of a larger…
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Style Guides
At the start of the year I took on a new challenge and a new job. I’m now working for a Uk based NHS approved supplier and again find myself as the sole lead UI/UX designer tasked with bringing consistency to an established product suite. Working in the product team I began this project with…
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Design System Testing
The design system project that I’m currently leading on is moving forward well. We are now in the testing phase after building out our digital product UI components in Figma with a Zeroheight front end. We are testing with a small group of developers and test analysts which have been made available from our scrum…
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Design System Governance
I’m working on the governance process for our new design system, this sets out how the system will be used by our product teams. We work in agile so this is a key consideration when planning the system’s work flow. Our system will be based on our digital products that we offer to B2B and…