Tag Archives: User Experience

2013_07_10_featured Design

How Surprising Details In Web Design Affect The User Experience

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The internet is maturing by the day. Websites in 2013 strive to be more accessible, more usable, and also more fun than ever before.

Fact is, a lot of them do so quite successfully. That is mainly for three reasons: (1) Web technologies evolve constantly, allowing for more and more advanced designs. (2) Technologies are more accessible than they used to be, empowering more people to use them. (3) People’s awareness of UX is growing, making them eager to offer more than just a working HTML site.
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User Experience: Feedback & The Case For Context

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Many times throughout my career, I’ve worked on projects and then … I see that email.

It normally goes like this, someone (who doesn’t know user experience) has gone off and done their own user research and has a new fantastic idea. Normally, this is in the form of a critique or a feature request. And more often than not, it comes from someone who is not the actual intended user of the product or service!
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2013_04_16_featured Design

How To Design For A Cross-Cultural User Experience (part 1/2)

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Our culture defines our values and our behaviour – not only in our everyday lives, but also on the Web. What catches our attention, what makes us trust a website, how we search for information, what we consider relevant, what triggers our actions, and how we perceive a website – at the end of the day, it all depends on our cultural background. For web designers, this presents a true challenge: How can we ensure a cross-cultural user experience if we are not truly familiar with cultures other than our own?
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2013_03_26_featured Design

5 Expert Tips for Improving Your Navigation Menu

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If not for the simple purpose of killing time, we usually have a goal in mind when visiting a website. That goal can be finding or sharing content, getting in contact with the site owner or customer service, purchasing a product, or anything else as a matter of fact. In any case, we want to reach our goal as quickly as possible — without getting distracted, lost, or frustrated because we can’t find what we are looking for.
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10 Ways How Video Can Improve The User Experience

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We love to get entertained. That’s why we like going to the movies, listening to cabaret shows, or visiting concerts. If we had a choice, our entire lives would be focussed much more on enjoyment, rather than dealing with all the serious stuff. Online we are no different. Sure, most of the time, we have a goal and probably some virtual time frame for reaching it. But what we really want is to have fun and to enjoy ourselves — of course while solving all our problems on the side.
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Showcase Of 10 Creative Small Business Sites

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Who says you have to be a creative company to have a creative website? Sure, design firms and creative agencies are expected to have a representative digital appearance. But there are plenty of non-digital and non-creative businesses out there with very creatives websites — so creative that we decided to bring some of them together for your inspiration.
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What Is The Best Call To Action Phrase For You?

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When designing your website or application, one of the many areas you explore “calls to action”. What phrases or statements do you need to encourage the user to take the steps necessary to complete an action? What terms should you include to ensure that your calls to action (CTA) are clear to the user? What language or tone of voice do you use to get your message across?
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UX Videos By Tomer Sharon

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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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