Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
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Getting Started With E-Commerce: Your Options When Selling Online
- June 2nd, 2010
- 92 Comments
The world of online sales, whether of products or services, can be daunting at first; the options seem confusing and the information conflicted. Yet as the designer or developer of an online store, you will need to guide your client through the maze of choices in order to get it ...
Read more...Usability Do’s And Don’ts For Interactive Design
- April 27th, 2010
- 45 Comments
We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it’s tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How ...
Read more...The Path To Advertising Nirvana
- April 12th, 2010
- 42 Comments
With advertising, a curious thing happens: most people want its benefits but are rarely willing to put up with its hassles. Those who run websites and applications have enough on their plates without having to worry about handling transactions, putting banners across their website or hearing requests from advertisers. Moreover, ...
Read more...Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead
- February 26th, 2010
- 43 Comments
Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch ...
Read more...Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part 2
- February 11th, 2010
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In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continued into modern stories such as The Matrix and Star Wars. We also explored some of the basics ...
Read more...Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One
- January 29th, 2010
- 59 Comments
Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They have continued to evolve with their purpose remaining the same; To entertain, to share common experiences, to teach, and to pass on traditions. Today we ...
Read more...Usability Study: Shopping For Bedsheets – How Hard Could It Be?
- January 13th, 2010
- 39 Comments
Online shopping is a great way to economize and reduce the stress of shopping, but shopping online for certain types of products can be harder than shopping in person. Recently, I looked at how well major online retailers (Macy’s, Target and Overstock.com) facilitate shopping for a deceptively complex, though very ...
Read more...25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time
- January 5th, 2010
- 44 Comments
We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different ...
Read more...Principles Of Effective Search In E-Commerce Design
- December 8th, 2009
- 35 Comments
While product findability is a key factor of success in e-commerce, it is predominantly enabled by simple search alone. And while simple search usually doesn’t fulfill complex needs among users, website developers and owners still regard advanced search as just another boring to-do item during development. Owners won’t go so ...
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