Design Systems: An Overview

A Design System organizes various disparate components to enable a team to design, realize, and develop a product. The elements of this design system can be used and reused to build a wide range of products and help facilitate designers’ skills and expertise. However, when choosing a design system, there are many elements to consider. And while many believe design systems are critical, some within the industry are divided on their use. 

Below we’ve highlighted the pros and cons of using design systems and attempted to overview how design systems work in the real world. 

Design Systems: An Overview

A Design System organizes various disparate components to enable a team to design, realize, and develop a product. The elements of this design system can be used and reused to build a wide range of products and help facilitate designers’ skills and expertise. However, when choosing a design system, there are many elements to consider. And while many believe design systems are critical, some within the industry are divided on their use. 

Below we’ve highlighted the pros and cons of using design systems and attempted to overview how design systems work in the real world. 

Radiant and Dojo partner to scale digital transformation and cloud at the "industry-level"

Seattle, WA – Radiant Digital and Dojo Partners announced a partnership to bring Radiant’s global capabilities in digital design, rapid prototyping, cloud transformation, and sector leadership with Dojo Partners’ approach to industry-level corporate growth planning. Radiant Digital is a leader in delivering and enabling advanced and innovative solutions across the digital enterprise.

The Significance of User Journey Mapping in Enterprise UX

The success of UX designers depends not just on the design quality and appeal but the whole user experience that their design delivers. However, they often overlook their design’s impact and focus instead on individual features and processes. Journey mapping helps deep dive into the user's thoughts, experiences, expectations, opportunities, decisions, negotiations, outcomes, etc., using a timeline of events based on a shared vision. At Radiant Digital, we implement multiple journey mapping exercises to converge visuals, narratives, and KPIs and make UX valuable.

Understanding Data Visualization from a UX Designer’s Perspective

In today’s digital world, the number of connected devices that generate data has increased exponentially. Recent research by IDC revealed that the global data volume would reach 163 trillion gigabytes by 2025. With more businesses relying on this data for decision-making, the design of business dashboards has gained prominence in the past decade. UX designers often need to coherently and visually communicate quantitative data to their teams and users.

How these UX tools will revolutionize the UX Design landscape in 2022

New trends can change a designer’s trajectory each year in the dynamic area of UX design. Designers can’t benchmark a particular trend which becomes ineffective when customer preferences change. But what they can do is understand the most useful software tools to improvise their designs. Radiant Digital leverages customer-centric designs with over a decade of experience in creating exceptional web and mobile app designs while pushing creativity limits. We have predicted the different UX trends that will equip designers with a deeper perspective on creating transformational designs.

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