{"id":49087,"date":"2023-04-10T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applitools.com\/?p=49087"},"modified":"2023-05-31T07:57:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:57:33","slug":"announcing-applitools-centra-ui-validation-from-design-to-implementation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applitools.com\/blog\/announcing-applitools-centra-ui-validation-from-design-to-implementation\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Applitools Centra: UI Validation From Design to Implementation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The user interface (UI) is the last frontier of differentiation for companies of all sizes. When you think about financial institutions, a lot of the services that they offer digitally are exactly the same. A lot of the services and the data they all tap into have been commoditized. What hasn’t been commoditized is the actual digital online experience \u2013 what it looks like and how you complete actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cExamined at an organizational level, a mature design thinking practice can achieve an ROI between 71% and 107%<\/strong>, based on a consistent series of inputs and outputs.\u201d<\/p>\nThe ROI Of Design Thinking, Forrester Business Case Report<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Modern UIs today are built by a diverse set of teams that work together at different parts of the process. The pace at which these design, development, QA, operations, marketing, and product teams ship their work is continuing to accelerate \u2013 creating new challenges around communication, collaboration, and validation across the workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Getting from design mock-ups in Figma to live UI is a process that includes a lot of feedback and testing. It starts with the designer who passes to the product manager for approval before the developer can start building. Feedback in the development process requires rework to make those updates before it can get approval from the product manager. This is all before the testing team has even started their review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see the game of telephone that’s played through different stakeholders into production, and we get something that’s slightly different at multiple levels. This makes measuring what actually happened and what actually needs to change incredibly hard, making it a huge burden on teams to ship clean UIs at a fast pace. Some of our main challenges here are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n