While some designers choose to join a User Experience (UX) course or a Bootcamp program, some user experience designers are self-taught, at least at the beginning. The UX design process for early beginners involves; learning about the fundamentals of UX design, investing in the right design software, and designing small-scale projects for personal portfolios. However, as the scale of projects increases and the need for team collaboration. There will be a need for standard design-development workflow or style guides.

A style guide focuses on the visual aspects, such as color, fonts, shapes, and icons, and documents their usage. Thus, it is a complete guide assisting the design team in all aspects.

In recent years leading tech firms have shared their design concepts and conventions. Design guides like Material Design System developed by Google are used to create consistency across all Andriod designs and devices. Another guideline is apple’s Human Interface Guideline (HIG). The HIG contains guidance and best practices that help you design a great experience for any Apple platform. Most firms have design guidelines developed specifically for their systems.

However, working with established designed guides can be tedious as there are a lot of components and materials to cover. The main factors to consider when creating a design system are the scale and replicability of your projects and the resources and time available. Design teams during internship programs are often under time constraints and can not develop their design guides. These teams can use the simplified design rule book adopted in other programs such as HotelNG (HNG) internships. A resource like the HNG’s user experience design guide helps teams create consistent, high-quality user interfaces by providing reusable components for developers to use in their projects.