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From Figma to Lovable: How No-Code Changed the Way I Validate Design Concepts

Here’s what happened when I brought no-code into my design process — and why it might help you validate concepts faster, too.

DESIGN DIALOGUES

Design Dialogues with Alžběta Hejnová

Product designer Alžběta Hejnová discusses her shift from architecture to UX, research-led design, and the magic of everyday inspirations.

FUTURE OF DESIGN

The shape of design to come

Design is shifting — again. These are the signals I'm seeing, and where I think we're headed.

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Make Design Count

Design is more than visuals — it's strategy. And business. Discover how it shapes outcomes, cuts costs, and drives meaningful results.

Act-ion for Accessibility: Our Strategy for Designing for Everyone

At Emplifi, we're preparing for the European Accessibility Act with a strategy focused on inclusive design and creating experiences for everyone.

Embracing the Pause: Lessons from My Five-Year Career Break

Taking a career break can feel pretty scary. During my maternity leave, I found ways to stay confident and return to work with purpose.

Soul icons: Why and how we made an icon set for our design system

New design system, new icon set. Discover our journey of rebuilding all icons pixel by pixel to create a completely fresh UI set.

DESIGN DIALOGUES

Design Dialogues with Petr Novák

In our debut Design Dialogues interview, Emplifi's UI & Design System Manager chats all things design, Figma, and pizza dough.

Ears Wide Open: A Guide into the Power of True Listening

Imagine you're sitting in a bustling café. Your ears, like finely tuned instruments, pick up every sound around you.

A Love Letter to Notion: The Productivity App That Stole My Heart (And Mind)

Recently, I realized how much I rely on Notion. If you've never heard of it, it's a productivity web app for task management, note-taking, project tracking, to-do lists, and a lot more.

Designing Efficiently: How We Overcame Figma Folder Chaos

Our product design team at Emplifi currently includes over twenty designers, with Figma being our primary tool for creation and collaboration.

Empowering Designers: the Magic of Letting Go as a Leader

Hold up. Empowering and letting go in the same sentence? Well, this article is about letting go of control, not people!

Reaching for Perfection: Design Testing with Maze’s Helping Hand

Excited to share insights from my workshop at Emplifi’s Design Team! Learn how we leverage Maze for usability testing in our design…

Goodbye, Twitter: Designing Emplifi’s Transition to X

As you probably know by now, Twitter is no more. Since July 2023, the social media app was reborn as “X”, resulting in a whole new brand identity.

A Beginner’s Guide to Using MidJourney

Imagine being able to generate realistic-looking artwork, travel through time, or create an entire universe with just a few keystrokes. As I discovered thanks to MidJourney, now I can, and so can anyone else with some basic knowledge of how the tool works.

Workmates Over Cheese & Other Wisdoms

I've reached a point in my life where I believe my work and life experiences could make for an interesting read.

How I Made Fully Responsive Widgets (And How You Can, Too)

This widgets tutorial can be used by anyone who wants to use relevant data in their design or to explore the experience of auto-layout in Figma.

20 Design Books We Love

Whether you're a seasoned designer or just getting started in the field, learning and reading about design helps to continuously improve your craft.

Figma Plugins We Can't Live Without

I know what you're thinking. Another article about plugins. Why should I read it? Well, this is more than just another compilation of random plugins found on the internet.

How I designed my work/life cycles

I won’t write my whole life story here, but here’s the thing. I’m over 30, married, have 2 sons and 24 hours in a day. Meanwhile, work is a part of daily life; of course, there are exceptions among us who don’t have to work, but I belong to the group who exchange their time for cash.

Badges: How I used system thinking and research to evolve a small but essential UI element

At one of our regular design reviews, we discovered an imperfection in our systems. We realized that when a specific feature doesn’t have certain rules, every designer does what they want or what fits their given problem.