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20 days ago
bounce rate conversion rate user experience ux
5 Questions That Keep Users From Signing Up
Let’s face it, we want more: More readers, more users, more signups, more app downloads, more page views,… more sales. Anticipating which problems users have when they use software may help us to get a step closer to our goals and make our users happier.
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32 days ago
design usability user experience
UX Killed Usability
Usability is dead (or at best on life-support and not conscious), and I’m sorry to be the one that has to tell you this, but it’s been mortally wounded by UX (aka User Experience).
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43 days ago
design user experience
UX Design as a Two-Way Conversation
Thinking about UX design as a two-way conversation can be the key to creating smart sites and apps that meet users expectations, because when you begin to think about all design as a conversation, you are able to apply the rules of basic conversation to your design process.
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43 days ago
resource user experience
The Presentation — From Application To Interview: How To Get A Great UX Job
Presentation on how to get a great user experience job.
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52 days ago
business designer user experience
Diving into Indie UX: The Wrong Way
You can’t become an ‘indie’ UX designer until you have proven yourself as a ‘successful’ UX designer and have the portfolio and references to back you up.
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53 days ago
developers user experience
Effective Developer Experience (DX)
Platform product owners must be concerned with assisting developers in accomplishing this if end users are to have a good user experience overall. Attention to these details is called developer experience (DX), and enabling app developers to be successful through better DX will create a more successful UX for the platform product.
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117 days ago
navigation user experience ux
Mountain biking, misdirection and peanut butter sandwiches
Recently I took part in a 30 mile mountain bike ride. It was quite a challenge and on reflection made me think about not only my cycling ability but also user experience design… naturally!…
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121 days ago
design salaries user experience
Salaries For UX Researchers, Designers, Managers And IAs
So for example, designers making around $105k per year are making more than are 75% of all designers. Information Architects making $50k are paid higher than 25% of all IAs.
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128 days ago
clients user experience
Client UX: Think about your client’s in-box
What is their user experience like when they get our emails, meeting invites, invoices and deliverables?
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128 days ago
expectation improvement user experience
13 Ways to Make Your Website Seem More Trustworthy
A typical new visitor to your website will determine whether to stay or leave within the first 15 seconds. Since the web got infinite alternatives to your site, it’s crucial that you immediately instill a sense of trust.
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135 days ago
confidece user experience
5 Practices for Securing User Confidence
Security is not the concern of someone else, it’s the concern of everyone. Every feature needs to be designed with safety in mind. Empathize with your users, who may be savvy or may be accident-prone. Also take a walk in the shoes of a hacker.
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150 days ago
design tweaks user experience
6 Steps to Better UX Design
Everything you do, wear, drive, eat, and so forth are expressions of your character. If it is you that makes you unique, then let’s talk about the storefront that’s open 24/7 — your website — and see how it’s applicable to other designs as well.
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152 days ago
design storytelling user experience
The Importance of Storytelling to UX Design
As web sites and web applications become increasingly modular in their construction, Designers run the risk of creating applications that consist of an endless, near random, stack of modules. This situation is common to many ecommerce experiences.
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156 days ago
concept design user experience
Design the Invisible to Tell Better Stories on the Web
For design to be meaningful we need to tell stories. We need to design the invisible, the cues, the messages and the extra detail hidden beneath the aesthetics. It’s all about the story.
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164 days ago
design interaction user experience
10 steps to an engaging interactive user experience
For people who aren’t well versed in the digital space, I often compare the work that I do as a UX designer to an architect. Like the architect who builds your home, my UX team builds a comprehensive blueprint, which outlines every single detail of the site’s features and functionality.
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165 days ago
design requirements user experience
Saving the task from the tool: Techniques for user experience requirements analysis
Put simply, most applications are developed to help users solve complex problems. The problem is complex enough; your application should not be a problem in itself.
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166 days ago
a/b testing optimization user experience
A Beginner’s Guide To A/B Testing: Exceptional Web Copy
The key to a successful A/B test is consistency and control. You want your data to be as accurate as possible, and that requires careful planning and execution. By following the best practices above, you’ll have a successful A/B test with sound results on which you can base important decisions.
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173 days ago
team user experience ux
The Growth of UX Organizations
…What’s interesting is that across all company sizes the median number of UX professionals has increased between 20% and 30% over the last two years.
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177 days ago
complexity design user experience
Complexity and User Experience
The best products don’t focus on features, they focus on clarity. Problems should be fixed through simple solutions, something you don’t have to configure, maintain, control. The perfect solution needs to be so simple and transparent you forget it’s even there.
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179 days ago
design user experience
A Crash Course in UX
User experience is comprised of a) content strategy, b) interaction design and c) visual design, all ruled by a process of user research…
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242 days ago
customer experience user experience
Customer experience problems: what WE see vs. what YOU see
…This is a brilliant encapsulation of what’s wrong with so many companies’ customer experiences: what the company sees is different from what the customer sees….
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256 days ago
design user experience user interface
Realism in UI Design
…Graphical user interfaces are full of symbols. Symbols need to be reduced to their essence. This helps avoid cluttering the user interface with meaningless distractions, and makes it easier for people to «read» the symbol and figure out the meaning of an interface element…
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258 days ago
design software development user experience
The Integration of User Experience into Software Development
Ideally, UX professionals should be involved in the entire software development lifecycle…
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263 days ago
design rant user experience
UX is not a skill, it’s part of design.
User Experience, or ‘UX’ as it’s commonly shortened to, is how a person uses and experiences an interface. This is just part of design. Whether it’s designing a website, application or a physical product, the user experience should be the sole motivator for direction and decisions.
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341 days ago
user experience ux design
Don’t simplify the UX, curate!
To accomplish simplification, user experience designers employ a variety of design exercises to make the UI more efficient. We limit the amount of choices available to a user, reduce the size of content and site copy, progressively disclose UI options, and synthesize unruly navigation elements.
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381 days ago
user behavior user experience
How Cognitive Biases Shape User Experience
Users tend to have a preconceived understanding about where certain page elements are likely to be located. For example, many users will look for a sign-in button in the upper right corner of page.
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389 days ago
design user experience
Got a Big Problem? Focus on Something Small
Sketching is great, but at the end of the day we’ve found it’s better to get something done. That means focusing on something small
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402 days ago
usability user experience user interface
Less is not always More
..I have been noticing a very frightening tread. In an effort to make things more usable, we are designing interfaces without the very functions used to support usability in the first place…
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403 days ago
design user experience video games
The Elements of Player Experience
Video games are breaking out of the roles they’ve traditionally occupied and are moving into spaces where they collide with UX design.
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409 days ago
brand design user experience
The visual interface is now your brand
…While designing visual interfaces for dense, complex products, designers can also influence brand perception by creating experiences that are both memorable and useful…