When UXers Should Use A UI Kit By Clare Bittourna, Codal Inc
______________________________________________________ Have you thought about using a UI kit? If the answer is no, it may be time to take the plunge and make your life easier while streamlining the design process. As a UX design agency, we’ve found that UI kits are great because they can also help save time and money while making your designs perform and look better. The basis of UI kits are aimed at frontend developers who would rather take a modular approach to building a website or app, but may not want to be restricted or tied down by a template. One big reason for a UXer to want to use a UI kit is because its makes web development simply a quicker process. As an agency that specializes in user experience design services, a faster design process means more websites can be built which leads to increasing efficiency which is every UXers end goal. However something to consider, this doesn’t address the development side, even though it may cut down a few hours in Sketch it still has to be implemented from scratch in code. A UXer may use a UI kit to get a more realistic sense of how long a project will take for their UI design services project. While it won’t make the estimation for you the design is already known so what’s left for you to do is less than what it would be starting from scratch. After you know which design you want to use you can take elements from the UI kit and set them
up according to the wireframe you created. This process ends with customizing those design elements to fit your branding. To eliminate learning how to solve common problems like breadcrumbs, CTA’s, navigation styles, notification boxes, and icons a UXer may use a UI kit to eliminate these issues. With the amazingly-detail oriented nature UI kits have you’ll end up with a better result than if you were doing it all by yourself, and faster! Another reason a UXer may want to use a UI kit is to have a standard look and feel for their website. Once you use a UI kit that includes icon packs and custom color palettes etc., it's simple to keep the same overall look for all elements in your website. Users will go through different pages on the site and different components but still feel that they are similar. Looking for more insight on UI kits, UX design services, or user experience design services? Are you wanting to develop an app or website and you need to know more information on how this web development agency chicago based company is? Visit C odal’s blog, or come talk to us here! We’d love to hear from you.