This means you can easily prototype fully interactive high-fidelity designs that would previously require coded prototypes, without any coding using the exact same components as the end product. When you use your components on the canvas in UXPin, you aren’t drawing rectangles styled to look about right - you are placing the real components the developers will use in the end product. In the past, these were raster and, nowadays, vector, a step in the right direction, but you are still drawing images that are supposed to represent the direction of your product’s look and feel. Usually, the canvas on which you design is an image. To understand how this works, we need to step back and look at how UXPin differs from other design tools. Previously Merge required engineers to export the components to UXPin in the build/deployment pipeline… That’s not required when importing components from npm packages. Recently UXPin have extended their powerful Merge functionality by adding npm integration, allowing designers to sync React component libraries without requiring any developer input. We’ve written about our friends at UXPin before, and it’s been really great watching them iterate their product towards bringing designers and engineers closer. UXPin is focused on the goal of removing the gap between design and development tools. For all the advantages there are, we still have many things to solve. The same is happening now with design systems. To fundamentally improve the way we all work. People throughout the web industry worked together, both in collaboration and competitively, to gradually, step-by-step, improve the web. This historical precedence gives me optimism. Even Container Queries, often considered an impossible task, are making their way into browsers. Similarly, vertical centering can no longer be the punchline of a CSS joke. Traditionally the “Holy Grail” was the full-height three-column layout, but that is now consigned to history. Is it controversial to say deep integration of design systems, removing the need to maintain both a code and design version of each component, is the current Holy Grail of Web Design? This article, however, isn’t influenced by UXPin in any way and expresses the independent opinion of the author. This article is kindly powered by our friends at UXPin, a UI design and prototyping tool that gives your prototypes the superpowers they deserve: states, JS expressions, variables, conditional interactions, Git sync.
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