Posts Tagged ‘Usability’
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Designing Social Interfaces: Overview and Practical Techniques
- November 17th, 2009
- 38 Comments
The standard approach to interface design is to craft a channel that allows you to easily and efficiently control hardware or software; it’s all about the interaction between people and computers. But today, the two entities on each side of the user interface are changing: it’s no longer about people ...
Read more...Increasing Online Sales: Simple Usability Problems To Avoid
- October 30th, 2009
- 32 Comments
When designing an online store, you have to consider many different types of customers: repeat customers, first-timers, people in a rush, etc. One thing that would help all of them is optimum usability. You can achieve this in a variety of ways, starting with eliminating the most common usability problems ...
Read more...15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design
- October 8th, 2009
- 100 Comments
15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design and How to Avoid Them (via @smashingmag) - Selling online can open up huge new markets for many businesses. When your store can be open 24/7 and you can reach a global market without the costs of mailings and call centers, it can be a ...
Read more...Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces
- October 7th, 2009
- 65 Comments
Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces (via @smashingmag) - Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case ...
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...Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface
- September 21st, 2009
- 27 Comments
Though many computer applications and operating systems make use of real-world metaphors like the desktop, most software interface design has little to do with how we actually experience the real world. In lots of cases, there are great reasons not to directly mimic reality. Not doing so allows us to ...
Read more...12 Tips For Designing an Excellent Checkout Process
- May 28th, 2009
- 61 Comments
Shopping online can be a great experience. You don’t have to leave the comfort of your home and you can quickly compare and read about all the competing products in order to pick the best one for you. But it can also be a little frustrating if the process isn’t ...
Read more...Use Conversions To Generate More Conversions
- May 23rd, 2009
- 15 Comments
If you’ve managed to sell a product to a customer, use this opporunity to present further attractive offers to the customer. The topic “behavioral targeting”, a technique that uses information collected on an individual’s web-browsing behavior, such as the pages they have visited or the searches they have made, to ...
Read more...Optimizing Conversion Rates: It’s All About Usability
- May 15th, 2009
- 35 Comments
In eCommerce usability improvements usually have a huge impact on conversion rates. However, usability doesn’t only mean better visual guide or better site hierarchy. It also means a better communication with potential customers using a professional, trustworthy design, delivering the right information at the right time and communicating with users ...
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