Summary: 3 methods for increasing UX quality by exploring and testing diverse design ideas work even better when you use them together. This is an updated version of an article written by Jakob Nielsen in 2011. There’s no one perfect user-interface design, and you can’t get good usability by simply shipping your one best idea.… Continue reading 3 Design Processes for High Usability: Iterative Design, Parallel Design, and Competitive Testing
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AI Features Must Solve Real User Problems
Summary: AI features must solve real problems, not be implemented for novelty. Unnecessary AI chatbots and features can harm rather than help users. Generative AI has been bringing plenty of change over the past two years. While it’s substantially changing what and how we design, some things stay the same. One important UX principle is… Continue reading AI Features Must Solve Real User Problems
The Ultimate 10 UX Influencers to Follow
The digital world is a place of constant change. Just as you get used to a new design trend, another one appears, forcing you to rethink the way that you approach each client project. As a web designer, it’s up to you to make sure that you have your finger on the pulse on the… Continue reading The Ultimate 10 UX Influencers to Follow
30 Best Landing Page Templates Of 2020
57 Shares A landing page should be aesthetically pleasing, clean and elegant. It should be simple to understand yet it must have all the information that the website wants to convey to the visitor of the website. It should appeal to the visitor and the design and colors used should be attractive and related to… Continue reading 30 Best Landing Page Templates Of 2020
6 PDF Tips for Designers to Improve Their Productivity
If you’re a graphic designer who regularly works with visual elements, you’ll know how frustrating it can be when the end result looks like nothing you had in mind when you started out. For instance, the colors you initially chose might look completely different in a different application; or the layout you intended got so… Continue reading 6 PDF Tips for Designers to Improve Their Productivity
Experience strategy needs to be oblique
If truly the goal of your organization is about profit you are most probably dealing drugs or selling insurance. But if you are not in either of these businesses, what is a true strategic vision your organization has (or should have)? And, even more importantly, what is the optimal way to have it achieved? Aga… Continue reading Experience strategy needs to be oblique
Web Design Trends 2019 – 33 New Website Examples
Trend that change in every minute is Web design. Every web designer make their own custom web design for their website because now a day designing a trendy websites can be easier now than ever thanks to all the available web designing tools, but there are still some coming in future so designers should have… Continue reading Web Design Trends 2019 – 33 New Website Examples
27 Simple & Clean CV / Resume Templates with Cover Letters
Professional, simple and clean CV /Resume Templates ready to print design can help you land that great job. All resume templates are fully customisable; easily edit the typography, wording, colors and layout. These cv/resume template are perfect for those who want to make a good impression. All templates are perfect for photographers, designers, and developers with easy to customize fully Photoshop layered PSD files.… Continue reading 27 Simple & Clean CV / Resume Templates with Cover Letters
User Experience Is Important For Web Designers
The first thing that grabs your attention when you open an app or a website is the way in which it is designed. User experience depends mostly on design and its contribution to the brand’s recognition. You might design a good looking website, but you should still go far beyond a simple user experience. UX… Continue reading User Experience Is Important For Web Designers
User Experience Design: How to Do it Right
We know that the customer is always right. However, this motto is often neglected costing website operators a lot of money that could have been better spent. No matter what industry your company is in, the customer should come first in each marketing strategy. You can optimize your sales only with satisfied clients. But customer… Continue reading User Experience Design: How to Do it Right
How to transform user experience into UX design
Usability testing doesn’t have to be complicated. There are dozens of options for a design team that wants to remotely test their solutions. To prove that, we’ve redesigned Yelp, with the help of remote usability tests. We ran remote usability tests because they’re fast and affordable. All of these tests were unmoderated, which means the… Continue reading How to transform user experience into UX design
What Is An Effective Web Design And What Makes Good User Experience?
The Importance of User Experience We live at an age and time where everything is accessible but also in an era where people’s attention span gets shorter. Therefore, in a race to attract prospective customers, companies of all sizes and shapes come up with ways and means to do that. In the process, the World Wide… Continue reading What Is An Effective Web Design And What Makes Good User Experience?
8 User Experience (UX) Free Tools & Apps
With today’s collection, we have come up with 8 most useful tools and apps for everyday UX tasks that will be helpful for the designers. There are plenty of online solutions available that help professionals a lot. Working in an UX team calls for mastering quite a few online tools. With this collection, we want… Continue reading 8 User Experience (UX) Free Tools & Apps
20 Modern Mobile App UI Designs October 2014
Interfaces and experiences are two completely different things but go together hand in hand for every design. It is important for any software to look as attractive as it is amazing to experience. Mobile apps since the launch of smart phones have soared to new heights and they do compliment any phone’s usage. User interfaces… Continue reading 20 Modern Mobile App UI Designs October 2014
How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective
Both web design and mobile app design share many similar features. One of the most important features is that they’re both created for an audience, whether young kids or teens or adults or some kind of mix. The end user should be your most important priority when it comes to brainstorming new ideas. For this… Continue reading How To Design Interfaces from a User Experience Perspective
Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design
Lately, every app is “beautiful”. If you read tech news, you’ve seen this pageant: Beautiful charts and graphs1. Beautiful stories 2. Beautiful texting3. Beautiful notebooks4. Beautiful battery information5. Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is it a product or marketing strategy. Like “simple” and “easy” before it,… Continue reading Think Your App Is Beautiful? Not Without User Experience Design
Pragmatic Landing Page Can Create Enjoyable Experience
The Petersham Nurseries is an online store dedicated to an internationally-prized garden center has been nominated and recently received the title “Site of the Day” from the respectable Awwwards’ jury. The site was rated far above average and got quite impressive numbers in all presented factors that cover design, usability, creativity and content. So, what… Continue reading Pragmatic Landing Page Can Create Enjoyable Experience
Lean UX – How to Apply Lean Principles to User Experience Design
The process of putting together a good user experience design has always been talked about as a deliverables-based practice where bureaucracy, specification documents, wireframes, mockups and site maps took the center stage. This deliverable based practice, meaning that everything, each step of the process, has to be delivered with proper timing and documentation, witch often… Continue reading Lean UX – How to Apply Lean Principles to User Experience Design
Reasons Why First-Time Freelancers Fail
You might be surprised with some of the main reasons that cause freelancers to fail. The first-time freelancer doesn’t fail because of doing poor quality work, or due to missing a deadline; nor do they lack the talent to execute their tasks. However, these factors may contribute somewhat to the failure of first-time freelancers. Unfortunately,… Continue reading Reasons Why First-Time Freelancers Fail
How To Make Your Usability Test An Engaging Experience
In my first usability test, I met a dear old woman who didn’t know how uses a mouse. She lifted it up and pointed it at the screen, encouraging the cursor in verbal tones! At the test’s conclusion I got completely nothing. But I quickly learned the importance of laying down very exact criteria for… Continue reading How To Make Your Usability Test An Engaging Experience
Create a Better Responsive User Experience
The mobile market is exploding with unprecedented growth, and marketers are no longer hesitating to embrace responsive web design. As more and more businesses choose to adopt this new approach, it has become crucial for anyone in the web industry to understand the implications of creating a responsive user experience. It’s become our responsibility as… Continue reading Create a Better Responsive User Experience
Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser
As a web designer at Four Kitchens, part of my job is leading the production team’s visual design objectives. A key part of this process is ensuring the client’s satisfaction with the overall look and feel of the site. Since most of my projects utilize an agile development process, I am no stranger to shifting… Continue reading Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser
Improving Your Site’s User Experience
When it comes to web design, the quality of experience that users have with a site determines whether it’s successful or not – regardless of how visually catchy the design is. A positive experience drives sales and conversions, while a negative one deters visitors from staying or returning. Therefore performance optimization should be a central… Continue reading Improving Your Site’s User Experience
Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts
As a web designer you always want to stay on top of the latest ideologies. User experience design is the process of building around what the user needs to do. You have to consider specific reasons for why users are coming to your website in the first place. And the goal is to build a… Continue reading Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts