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14 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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18 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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25 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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25 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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32 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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47 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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49 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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52 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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61 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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62 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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63 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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70 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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74 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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76 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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139 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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153 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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155 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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160 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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237 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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277 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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286 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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299 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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300 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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306 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…
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306 days ago
design user experience
The fall and rise of user experience
…Public understanding of design is also growing. Customers see and use the same desirable products, and can now use the power of their networks to learn about a product’s true quality before they part with their cash. This means the public increasingly appreciates the value of usability and user experience, although they would never use those terms…
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315 days ago
design startups user experience
The Value of Design to Startups
Design and marketing are way more important than engineering for consumer Internet companies, argues angel investor Dave McClure
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315 days ago
design personas user experience
Personas: The Foundation of a Great User Experience
…as the marketplace shifts from a mass manufacturing to a mass customization model, customers needs and desires are more accurately identified through the development of personas rather than through demographic data.
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325 days ago
design startups user experience
More, better, faster: UX design for startups
Startups don’t have capital to burn or luxurious schedules for big-design-up-front. But unless your idea is by-and-for-engineers, design isn’t something you want to skip on your way to market.
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327 days ago
generalist specialist user experience
Should you hire a UX specialist or a UX generalist?
As a UX Manager, adding a new person to your team is one of the most difficult and critical things you’ll ever do. Adding the right person will dramatically increase the quantity and quality of the work your team produces. However, adding the wrong person can create morale issues and even decrease your effective throughput.
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328 days ago
design user experience
Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept.