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UX & SEO: A Love Story

on April 12, 2012 / by Mark Oleszczak / 1 Comment

This is a guest post written by our friend Mark Oleszczak

Oftentimes, when people hear the words “search engine optimization” – they think of shady people who love keyword stuffing, gimmicky page titles, and who in general love to ruin the cleanliness of a beautiful website. While those people do exist, it’s important to note that not all search engine optimizers are the same, and there are a number of easy things you can do as a designer to ensure your site is beautiful for both your target audience and for robots.

Aww… robots.

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Design

Conversation Is the End Goal: an Interview With Eric Fisher

on March 13, 2012 / by Anneke Schapelhouman / No Comments

Eric Fisher is a storyteller turned product architect. He was the Social Design Evangelist at Facebook where he wrote the guidelines on Social Design. Eric has also worked as a designer at both Google and Apple and he independently works with startup companies to help architect their products.

Anneke had the opportunity to interview Eric for our readers. Here are some great insights into the role of a designer at big companies, how design will change because of all the data we are collecting, ethics, and much more.

Eric Fisher

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How-tos

Feeding the hunger of data junkies with Google Docs

on September 7, 2010 / by Paul Veugen / No Comments

Last week we silently released the first version of our API. Sido explained our new XML export options and the new API key in his last blogpost. In short: we’ve implemented two new XML export options. You can use these exports to create XML files with the content of your test and the results of your test. We built this feature as a first step in opening up Usabilla and to make the data you collect in Usabilla accessible in any other tool. To demonstrate some of the possibilities with these new feeds, I’ve created a Google Spreadsheet that imports test results. In this post I will explain step by step how this Spreadsheet works and how you can build your own.

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