Posts Tagged ‘User Experience’
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Designing For Start-Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across
- February 24th, 2011
- 25 Comments
Start-up organizations provide an extraordinary example of chaos organized into manageable chunks. Perhaps more than anyone else, the individuals who comprise a start-up team are required to understand their team’s goals across a variety of disciplines — research, marketing, design, development, architecture, etc. — as well as their own responsibility ...
Read more...Business Objectives vs. User Experience
- February 4th, 2011
- 125 Comments
Here’s a question for you: would you agree that creating a great user experience should be the primary aim of any Web designer? I know what your answer is… and youʼre wrong! Okay, I admit that not all of you would have answered yes, but most probably did. Somehow, the majority ...
Read more...Persuasion Triggers in Web Design
- November 29th, 2010
- 74 Comments
How do you make decisions? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic. You know that other people have weak personalities and are easily swayed by their emotions, ...
Read more...The User Is The Anonymous Web Designer
- October 14th, 2010
- 32 Comments
We invest time, money and effort into understanding our audience, and the movement toward a more socially networked Web has made us realize the power that visitors have over how our designs are engineered; and we try to meet their ever-growing needs. Community is integral to the evolution and functioning ...
Read more...What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources
- October 5th, 2010
- 68 Comments
Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience. But regardless of how much has changed in the production process, a website’s success still hinges on just ...
Read more...Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part 2
- February 11th, 2010
- 19 Comments
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
- 43 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...Should Links Open In New Windows?
- July 1st, 2008
- 244 Comments
No, they shouldn’t. At first glance the decision to open links in new windows or not depends on the given site and the preferences of its visitors. Visitors of the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows than open dozens of links in ...
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