Posts Tagged ‘Research’
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Effectively Planning UX Design Projects
- January 24th, 2013
- 17 Comments
Planning user experience (UX) projects is a balancing act of getting the right amount of user input within the constraints of your project. The trick is to work out the best use of your time. How can you get the most UX goodness for your client’s budget? This article explains ...
Read more...The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love
- January 26th, 2012
- 30 Comments
UX practitioners, both consultants and in house, sometimes conduct research. Be it usability testing or user research with a generative goal, research requires planning. To make sure product managers, developers, marketers and executives (let’s call them stakeholders) act on UX research results, planning must be crystal clear, collaborative, fast and ...
Read more...Effective User Research And Transforming The Minds Of Clients
- December 6th, 2011
- 18 Comments
Ah, the love of a client. That is indeed what we all seek as professionals, is it not? If we lived in a utopia, then that’s all there would be. Openness. Honesty. Passion. Flowing in both directions, client to service provider and vice versa. We want our clients to be ...
Read more...Improve The User Experience By Tracking Errors
- October 4th, 2011
- 27 Comments
It’s easy to see your top-visited pages, navigation patterns and conversion metrics using visitor-tracking tools like Google Analytics. However, this data doesn’t show the roadblocks that users typically run into on your website. Tracking and optimizing error messages will help you measurably improve your website’s user experience. We’ll walk through ...
Read more...How Metrics Can Make You A Better Designer
- September 20th, 2011
- 12 Comments
Metrics can be a touchy subject in design. When I say things like, “Designers should embrace A/B testing” or “Metrics can improve design,” I often hear concerns. Many designers tell me they feel that metrics displace creativity or create a paint-by-numbers scenario. They don’t want their training and intuition to ...
Read more...Designing Global Applications For Children
- September 2nd, 2011
- 11 Comments
The entire process of designing digital applications comes with many challenges and decisions. For the majority of projects, you will be designing in somewhat familiar territory. But what happens when you have to design something to be used by hundreds of children around the world? How do you accommodate your ...
Read more...10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
- September 24th, 2009
- 219 Comments
Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making your pages easy and enjoyable for your visitors to use is key. Many studies have been done over the years on various aspects of Web ...
Read more...Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
- July 4th, 2008
- 111 Comments
If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is not enough to simply enable users to sign up on your site. To make it ...
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