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Read UI/UX design articles from The Skins Factory, covering SaaS UX, fintech, healthcare, cybersecurity, AI, and more.

HIPAA Compliant UI/UX Design for Healthcare Software

The Skins Factory has designed healthcare software interfaces for enterprise platforms including InnovaMD (an Anthem company) and DocPanel, the world's largest radiology marketplace. Every engagement follows the same principle: exceptional healthcare UI/UX design does not require access to a single real patient record.

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The Product Leader's Guide to Integrating Fractional UI/UX Design

Design-as-a-Service for scaling B2B teams. Integrate fractional UI/UX design services into your sprints and engineering stack, without slowing your team down.

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Designing AI Copilots Users Actually Use

Every software company is racing to add an AI Copilot. The feature ships, the demo looks magical, and then real users touch it and something falls apart. They don’t trust the output. They can’t tell when the AI is confident or when it’s guessing. The model was never the problem. The interface around it was.

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After Your UI/UX Design Is Completed, Who Codes It?

Most companies try to solve design and development at the same time, with the same level of care. Very few actually pull it off. And that gap is where good products go to get watered down. The best outcomes, consistently, happen when there is real symmetry and communication between design and development from the beginning.

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Enterprise UX Audit: What Most Product Teams Overlook

This checklist covers what a thorough enterprise UX audit should include before a single screen gets touched in a redesign engagement. Built for enterprise products, SaaS platforms, fintech applications, healthcare portals, and cybersecurity dashboards. Complex, high-stakes software where getting it wrong has real consequences.

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Redesigning Legacy Software Without Disrupting What Works

Legacy software redesign is not just a visual refresh. It is a strategic modernization effort that protects mission-critical workflows, reduces user friction, and helps enterprise products feel current without sacrificing the depth and power users rely on.

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When to Hire a Software Design Consultant (And When Not To)

You have already spent three weeks debating whether to hire a senior UX designer or a UI lead or something called a "product designer" - a title that means seventeen different things depending on who's using it. Then someone in the room says: “What if we just brought in a consulting firm?” That question should have been asked first.

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Healthtech UI/UX Design: Bad Design Decisions Have Real Consequences

There is a version of bad design that costs a company a customer. There is another version that can feasibly cost a patient their health. In healthcare, you are always designing for the second scenario.

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