Create a UI Style Guide for Designing a User-Friendly App

It goes without saying that a lot of decisions go into a designing phase of an app.  

What will be the final look of the app? What type of color should the landing page be? How will the users navigate through different options?  

And a good designer will make sure to have logical reasoning for each decision before committing to it. He understands that consistency in UI is important because it creates trust. And the design is all about creating relationships between products and users to drive more engagement. And here style guide comes into play. 

Style guides encourage consistency in the visual identity and help keep the interface system as logical as possible, which makes for a better UX. It helps streamline the transition from the design phase to the development phase. 

What is a UI style guide? 

A UI Style Guide is a resource that contains the necessary details related to your product’s user interface, which ensures consistency throughout the product’s design. It helps define elements like typography, colors, layout, and components that are approved to be used in accordance with brand guidelines. 

Having a well thought out and developed style guide ensures that you are incorporating the unity principle of design throughout your entire product, no matter which screen a user is interacting with in their workflow. 

From basic design philosophies to interaction with different interfaces, style guides cover them all. It is a combination of visual specifications and guidelines for using particular interactions.  

In essence, Styleguides-  

• Record design elements and interactions that takes place within a product  
• List key UI components such as buttons, typography, color, navigation menus, etc.  
• Document important UX components like hover states, dropdown fills, animations, etc.  

Why Styleguides are great:   

Save Time  

Every time you need to use a ‘log in’ button or any other element, you don’t have to design it from scratch but rather just can copy it from the Styleguide.   

Team Collaboration  

Styleguides bring the whole team at the same page. With it, each team member can access one common document that records the intended look and feel of the product. And this reduces the chances of any visual or experiential inconsistencies that can cause poor user experience if go unchecked.   

Help Front End Development  

Styleguides streamline the transition from the design phase to the development phase of the app. For developers, having a Styleguide, lets them organize themselves in a more orderly manner in the app’s development and to keep the interface’s consistency for better user experience.  

A good Styleguide not only enables designers and developers to communicate and collaborate better, but also helps them create a more consistent product as well. 

 If you want to design your app, you need an expert team that understand structure, hierarchy, and complex component interactions. 

At Hashbrown, our team of designers, developers, and quality analysts prioritize the UI of a Mobile App throughout the development process.  

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