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  • Everything you need to know about content styleguides

    What UX writing has to do with legos? Read the article by Yuval Keshtcher and learn how to put together a content style guide to keep UX consistency.

  • User Guide Index

    UXPin topics arranged in alphabetical order.

  • User Guides: Smart Elements | UXPin

    This User Guide dives into how effectively use smart elements in UXPin.

  • Multistate Elements

    Creating a MSE makes copies of the selected elements. You can move, resize, recolor, or otherwise change the copies per state.

  • Importing Assets

    UXPin lets you import Sketch and Photoshop files with free plugins for each app. Doing so lets you make prototypes that demonstrate the product should feel.

  • Basic Interactions

    Basic interactions let you show, hide, move, and manipulate other elements on a page. Each action affects only one other element in one step.

  • Pages, Views and Navigation

    The sitemap is a tree of your pages or views. More than making distinct screens for sites and apps, you can use the sitemap to organize your work.

  • Previewing and Collaborating

    Preview mode lets you — or anyone — test your prototype and its interactions, including links between pages or views, documentation, and comments.

  • The Editor

    The Editor is your tool to create prototypes. It includes tools, element libraries, and a working canvas upon which to construct great mockups.

  • The Dashboard

    The UXPin Dashboard lets you organize projects into project folders, find projects and prototypes, and manage your account.

  • Teams and User Management

    A team is a set of people working together for a common goal. Each UXPin user has his or her own role, with varying permissions to work with projects.

  • Working with Elements

    The UXPin editor lets you build prototypes with elements from simple shapes to icons to pre-built components. Here’s how work with elements in your design.

  • Customizable elements

    Certain elements have custom elements to extend their appearance or functionality. Here we list them and describe what you can configure.

  • The Box Element

    While they make terrific gray placeholders, in UXPin boxes can be more than just dull rectangles.