- Usabilla helps us to let the entire company see through the eyes of our customers.
Richard de Vries, Interaction Designer Freelancer
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The Opportunities And Challenges Of Responsive Design
This article was first and in full length published on Webdesigner Depot.
In August 2011 7.12% of all website hits worldwide came from a handheld mobile device. By August 2012, that figure had risen to 11.78% (Source). We can literally watch as tablets and smartphones become our default choice for connecting to the internet. People have long gotten used to the web as an essential part of their lives, not willing to live another day, even another moment without being constantly connected.
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15 Practical Tips How To Use Typography For Emotional Design
Typography is an essential part of any website. There is no doubt about it. Websites usually offer information and the easiest way to present this information is through text. Besides, “people who are reading a well typeset page are more engaged in the experience and find that time flies by faster.” Good typography is not only a convenient carrier for information, it can also help to engage our website visitors.
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Case Study: User Insights Validate & Optimize The New Nu.nl iPad App
- With help of Usabilla Survey, we were able to make important improvements to the design before we launched our new Nu.nl app. Only 13 percent of the participants were able to identify a custom icon correctly. Lots of qualitative input allowed us to change the icon in time.
Annegien Bruins Slot,
Usability Specialist at Sanoma Media’s Online Performance Team
Design
For The Love Of Fun: The User Experience Of Buzzfeed
For those of you who haven’t snuck off during work to browse Buzzfeed, an introduction is in order. Buzzfeed is a news aggregation site that collects content from around the web. Some of the news is provided by resident contributors or partner websites, but all of it is filtered by a community ranking system.
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Interview With Nate Bolt, Research Manager At Facebook
This is a short conversation I held with Nate Bolt, a Research Manager on the Facebook design team. Nate is the former founder and CEO of Bolt | Peters and an adjunct professor at SVA’s iXD program. He wrote the freaking book about Remote Research, created ethnio, 1197, and that one airplane time lapse.
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Our 5 Favorite Articles On UX (November 2012)
This month, our favorite articles on UX are all about a better, more minimalistic, and more efficient approach to web design. Looking for design inspiration, or a starting point for your new design project? Do you want to know how to overcome UX barriers to sales conversion, or learn about the benefits of sharing our decision-making processes? Then we’ve got you covered.
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UX Videos By Tomer Sharon
This video post kicks off our new video channel, moderated by Tomer Sharon.
Tomer Sharon is a UX researcher at Google and author of the book It’s our research. In this video, Tomer introduces himself and the topics which will be covered in this channel.
We are very excited to feature this new category on our blog. Our heartfelt thanks to Tomer for sharing his UX insights with the Usabilla community.
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Best Practices For Creative And Thoughtful User Interfaces
When you’re designing an application – whether it’s for the web or for a mobile device – the user interface is enormously important. If the UI is clunky, awkward or confusing, users are likely to abandon the app. However, interfaces that are simple to use because they’ve been carefully crafted, will be liked. Thoughtfully designed UIs are often more likely to be highly recommended – even if they solve the same problem as their competitors.
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15 Reasons Why Parallax Scrolling In Web Design Is Awesome
Parallax scrolling. A design technique that has become increasingly popular lately — and not without reason. We’ve been talking a lot about how the web has changed and how our expectations towards a website have risen. The web user of today wants to get entertained and involved. We are more than willing to engage with a website, if we are invited to do so anyway. With parallax scrolling you can do a bunch of great things to invite your visitors to engage with your site.
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