Posts Tagged ‘User Experience’
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Finger-Friendly Design: Ideal Mobile Touchscreen Target Sizes
- February 21st, 2012
- 34 Comments
In darts, hitting the bulls-eye is harder to do than hitting any other part of the dartboard. This is because the bullseye is the smallest target. This same principle can also apply to touch targets on mobile devices. Smaller touch targets are harder for users to hit than larger ones. When you’re designing ...
Read more...How To Recruit A UX Designer
- February 16th, 2012
- 41 Comments
The Web has entered an era of user-centricity. If businesses are to attract new customers and retain existing ones, they must create websites and apps that deliver intuitive and tailored experiences. Whether you run an online retailer or a not-for-profit community website, the user experience is mission critical. As a consequence, ...
Read more...Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App
- January 31st, 2012
- 22 Comments
Like most well-designed things, the magic of an iPad app comes from a union of usefulness, usability and meaning. Games aside, the app must be useful by solving a problem that people actually have through the right set of functionality at the right time. It must be easy to use ...
Read more...Designing The Well-Tempered Web
- January 17th, 2012
- 28 Comments
As technology evolves, so does the art and craft of Web design. New technology creates new challenges, which require new solutions. Often we’re working in uncharted territory, where the solutions demanded really are new. Other times, we’re faced with problems of a more universal nature, problems that have a history. Given ...
Read more...Stop Designing Pages And Start Designing Flows
- January 4th, 2012
- 47 Comments
For designers, it’s easy to jump right into the design phase of a website before giving the user experience the consideration it deserves. Too often, we prematurely turn our focus to page design and information architecture, when we should focus on the user flows that need to be supported by ...
Read more...The Myth Of The Sophisticated User
- December 28th, 2011
- 51 Comments
As I sat in my local co-working space, shoulder-deep in a design problem on my MacBook Air, I could hear him. He was on the phone, offering screen-by-screen design recommendations to his client for the project they were working on. When this acquaintance of mine arrived at the subject of ...
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...An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability
- November 8th, 2011
- 64 Comments
Contrary to what you may read, peppering your form with nice buttons, color and typography and plenty of jQuery plugins will not make it usable. Indeed, in doing so, you would be addressing (in an unstructured way) only one third of what constitutes form usability. In this article, we’ll provide practical ...
Read more...The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content
- October 24th, 2011
- 16 Comments
If content sits at the top of the food chain, why do we spend so much time talking about the finer points of design? Every day we debate, experiment with and discuss topics that easily fall into the category of aesthetics, enhanced functionality and layout; in fact, relatively rarely do ...
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 ...
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