I see this question a lot around the internet: “What should I major in if I want to pursue a career in UX design?” As a college student and incoming product design intern at Facebook, I’ve done a lot of research on this question. It’s important to recruit new people to the field of user experience,… Continue reading College majors for UX design
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Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week
News & ideas Netflix Sans, a new custom typeface developed with Dalton Maag Intel just open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system There’s a new trend on the internet of editing famous songs like if they were playing in an empty mall or from another room In case you were left wondering, this is what an inclusion… Continue reading Note-taking during design reviews — and more UX links this week
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website
Over 80% of consumers research a business, product or service online before making a purchase decision. Yet, only about half of businesses today have a website. Whether you’re an established business or a start-up, having a professional and interactive website that speaks your brand message should be a critical part of your business goals. Many… Continue reading 5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Website
Five analytical components for a better user experience
User Behaviour Whatever someone does while on your website is called user behaviour. It includes the journey within your website’s pages, interaction with page elements, page scroll, form submissions, link/button clicks, and others. Analytics will help you understand the user behavior of your website better. How far are they scrolling down the page? Which forms… Continue reading Five analytical components for a better user experience
Analysing Usability Testing Data
Gathering feedback from your users is a crucial part of any design process. The way in which you can gather this feedback varies depending on what kind of questions you are trying to answer, the resources you have available for user research and what stage of the product life cycle you are currently in. Qualitative… Continue reading Analysing Usability Testing Data
How To Transform Your Retail App Idea Into Reality
With changing consumer behaviour and preferences over past few years, the retailers are finding it a bit challenging to keep up with the demands and expectations of shoppers in 2018. Each retailer is vying with the others to provide the best shopping experience to their customers. In times like these, mobile apps have become one… Continue reading How To Transform Your Retail App Idea Into Reality
10 Best and Worst Fonts for Emails
You are reading this article about fonts, it means you completely agree with us: there’s nothing more important than details. Besides, today’s trends call us to use less pictures, more texts in the newsletters unless it is a greeting one. We’ve done some research and analysis, and now we want to share the results on… Continue reading 10 Best and Worst Fonts for Emails
‘Hire’ this article if you’re struggling to understand your customer needs
There are zillions of words written about how customer centricity leads companies to success. However, the “customer-centric” term is sometimes misused as a catchall for customer feedback or customer satisfaction results, but making people happy is not enough. To have sustained success, companies must genuinely understand what the customer wants and needs, and implement the… Continue reading ‘Hire’ this article if you’re struggling to understand your customer needs
Improving Couple of Experiences in Strava (Unsolicited)
Recording an activity Current design analysis The app comprises of four tabs: Feed (default selection), Explore, Record, Profile and More. Although the Feed is the default selection, most of the times, as soon as I open the app, all I want is to start recording the activity, i.e, running or cycling. However, in the current setup, I… Continue reading Improving Couple of Experiences in Strava (Unsolicited)
UX and design thinking: 5 tips for changing your company mindset
The UX design is based off an attitude, a mindset that aims to catch those unfulfilled user needs in the context of a certain experience and turn them into design opportunities, through a process made of specific steps, mainly provided by the “design thinking tool set”. Conversely, so many companies in the digital industry keep… Continue reading UX and design thinking: 5 tips for changing your company mindset
8 Best jQuery 360 Degree Image Rotation Plugins
ADVERTISEMENT Another creative and awesome jQuery collection is posted only for you guys. In this, post we are presenting 8 best and very useful jQuery 360 degree image rotation plugins. There is no doubt that 360 degree images are more impressive and allow the user a complete or detailed analysis about the products or article.… Continue reading 8 Best jQuery 360 Degree Image Rotation Plugins
Key Web Development and Design Skills You Should Learn In 2017
In addition to building your client contact list this year, you should be thinking of upgrading your knowledge base in critical areas, especially as competition in the digital economy gets stiffer and opens up wider opportunities for highly skilled web developers and designers. What exactly should you focus on when expanding your web development skills-set… Continue reading Key Web Development and Design Skills You Should Learn In 2017
Web Design Tools for Beginners 2017
I remember the first job I had back in the day. I used to be a Social Media Manager at a digital agency. Of course I had some ideas about what I was supposed to do and how things should have worked, but I had no idea where to start from. What tools should I… Continue reading Web Design Tools for Beginners 2017
6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers
February 24, 2017 by Veronika The design and development work on a website doesn’t end with setting it live. Having a clean, W3C-validated code and an eye-catching design will surely help you get on the railroad to success. Yet, if you’re looking into building a website that truly stands out from the rest and provides… Continue reading 6 SEO Must-Haves for Web Designers & Developers
65 Proven E-commerce Consumer Behavior Statistics
February 2, 2017 by Noemi Twigg While the exact number of e-commerce stores cannot be pinpointed, based on data from the major platforms, it is safe to say that there are around several hundred thousands in the United States and anywhere from 12 to 14 million worldwide. In terms of online shoppers, Statista counts 1.61 billion (worldwide)… Continue reading 65 Proven E-commerce Consumer Behavior Statistics
How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo
When it comes to creating your website and logo design, nothing but the best will do. You need to consider your branding always when creating any STD or web property. You also should consider your logo design and how your website works with your logo to help your branding. Remember that branding is a concerted… Continue reading How to Create a Website to Compliment Your Logo
Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers
If you’re a long-time freelance web designer, you may be experiencing a rather common problem. As freelance web designers gain experience, they naturally become more proficient. This generally leads to attracting more clients, and results in taking on more work. Freelancers have obvious benefits. Like not having to work to someone else’ schedule, not having a… Continue reading Pre-Built Websites: 5 Productivity Tips for Freelance Web Designers
8 WordPress Plugins To Boost Speed And SEO
The beauty of having a WordPress website is that many issues or problems can be addressed with a simple plugin. You don’t need to know a line of code to add this piece of software to your site, and your site will quickly and easily get the improved functionality of the plugin. As anyone in… Continue reading 8 WordPress Plugins To Boost Speed And SEO
Choice paralysis: 3 ways the number of choices impacts conversions
Maybe you’ve heard of a phenomenon called choice or analysis paralysis. In short, it’s a situation where a customer can’t make a decision on a purchase because he’s faced with so many choices that they end up paralyzing him. Hence, choice paralysis. In the annals of marketing, there’s this notorious jam experiment that painfully details… Continue reading Choice paralysis: 3 ways the number of choices impacts conversions
Top Web Apps Designed to Smooth Your Design Workflow
Posted · Category: Best Collections The web apps below in combination with these productivity tips will help you improve your workflow. So here they are: Clarify Expected Outcomes. Just as can often be more than a single solution to an ambiguous requirement, expectations that are not put forth clearly can lead to unexpected or unintended results.… Continue reading Top Web Apps Designed to Smooth Your Design Workflow
A Closer Look at the Best UX and UI Tools and Apps
There are various ways to build a prototype, and a prototype can be used as a measure of design progress or to test final result. In most instances, a web designer goal is to create a high-fidelity prototype has the look and feel of the end product, and is also capable of supporting team collaboration… Continue reading A Closer Look at the Best UX and UI Tools and Apps
Code Clinic: Java
Code Clinic: Java 1h 34m Intermediate Jul 15, 2014 Updated Dec 16, 2014 Viewers: 11,167 Many successful programmers know more than just a computer language. They also know how to think about solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series… Continue reading Code Clinic: Java
New eBooks Available for Subscribers
Do you want to learn more about data analysis with Python? How about iOS 9 game development, Django, or Swift 2? Our latest batch of eBooks will teach you all you need to know about these topics and more. What You’ll Learn In the past couple of months we’ve made 16 new eBooks available for… Continue reading New eBooks Available for Subscribers
Code Clinic JavaScript
Successful programmers know more than a computer language. They also know how to thinkabout solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series of ten courses where lynda.com authors solve the same problems using different programming languages. Here, Ray Villalobos works… Continue reading Code Clinic JavaScript