[unable to retrieve full-text content] Co-authored with Josh Lovejoy Credit: Delivering the benefits of Custom Neural Voice What’s in a voice? What is it about the way someone speaks that makes them memorable? Why do subtle imperfections in speech — like the thoughtful pauses and false starts when thinking on one’s feet — help us perceive a person as sincere or… Continue reading Custom neural voice: designing for human-centered policy
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Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack
Asset management and website performance optimization are two of those unavoidable headaches faced by every website owner. A digital asset management (DAM) platform can provide centralized asset repositories with intuitive dashboards to help you manage assets. On the other hand, an image CDN can help you get rid of that messy responsive syntax and provide… Continue reading Start Using a Smart DAM and Image Optimization Stack
5 Great Landing Page Examples You Can Learn From
1 Share Your landing pages are incredibly important, as they often provide the first experience people will have with your website. They’re typically created with the purpose of converting your website visitors into leads or customers, so they have to be well-designed, attention-grabbing, and compelling enough to convince people to take action. There are so… Continue reading 5 Great Landing Page Examples You Can Learn From
The Ultimate Landing Page Checklist for Lead Generation
Web designers often have to wear many hats. It’s not uncommon for designers who are self-employed or work for a family business to also be involved in online marketing campaigns. With this in mind, many designers will appreciate that getting traffic to a website is hard work and often expensive. Whether you are using Google… Continue reading The Ultimate Landing Page Checklist for Lead Generation
Avoid These When Working on Open Source Projects
November 16, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine Every website developer should work on open source projects once in their career. It is a great way of getting feedback on works. Working on these kinds of projects is also a good way of learning how to create codes that are flexible enough to fit other developers’ works.… Continue reading Avoid These When Working on Open Source Projects
Adobe CC Updates to Boost Workflow and Collaboration
Whether Adobe’s focus on collaboration and remote-working was prescient long-term thinking, or if this direction of development is a reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic is unclear; what is clear is that the timing of this release is ideal for the new work environment we find ourselves in. Adobe CC June Update Highlights Adobe’s move from… Continue reading Adobe CC Updates to Boost Workflow and Collaboration
Building Brand Trust with Transparency: What Web Designers Can Do
The web has made it all too easy for consumers to look up anything and everything they’re interested in or have questions about. “Pet stores near me.” “Best web hosting 2020.” “Tom Brady net worth.” And it’s with this easy access to data that consumers have grown pickier about who they do business with. Because… Continue reading Building Brand Trust with Transparency: What Web Designers Can Do
Raygun RUM: Know Your Users’ Experience
It goes without saying that building web applications requires a lot of work. Not only do you have to design, debug, and deliver a fast server-side application, but the same amount of time and care must go into designing, debugging, and delivering a fast client-side application. This means that everyone involved throughout the development process… Continue reading Raygun RUM: Know Your Users’ Experience
Web Design Lessons You Need to Master This 2020
The digital world spins faster than other planets. Here, agility and adaptability are necessary survival skills if success is what you’re after. We have come so far from text-heavy websites that used to reign in the 90’s and could make web designers of today make a run for the hills. In fact, it’s common knowledge… Continue reading Web Design Lessons You Need to Master This 2020
Some Grave Search Engine Optimization Mistakes Even SEO Experts Sometimes Commit
SEO techniques are constantly evolving because of the search engine’s developments and the ever-changing perspectives of users. It is surely quite challenging to stay abreast of the most successful search engine optimization methods with many businesses and even SEO experts doing SEO incorrectly. Instead of witnessing huge traffic and rising conversion rates, the results could… Continue reading Some Grave Search Engine Optimization Mistakes Even SEO Experts Sometimes Commit
CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility
Color accessibility is an important part of visual accessibility. People with various types of visual impairments, such as color blindness and low vision, perceive colors in different ways. As a result, the meaning of colors becomes less significant or is completely lost for users with visual disabilities. Although most articles on color accessibility give design tips… Continue reading CSS Tips for Better Color and Contrast Accessibility
5 Rules That Govern WordPress Site Design Testing
Think website design, and the ideas and options are endless. There are thousands of website design components to explore and experiment with. There is also a significant increase in the number of personal devices are purchased around the globe. It has become all the more important to think about how websites would look on different… Continue reading 5 Rules That Govern WordPress Site Design Testing
Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2019
As you are shopping this month for others, why not find a few goodies for yourself? Our roundup of new tools and resources is packed with usable items. And most are free, so there’s no shame in trying out something for yourself. Here’s what’s new for designers this month. CSS Background Generator CSS Background Generator… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, December 2019
How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
Because of the sense of value users perceive from micro-interactions, they not only boost engagement, but also inspire positive feelings towards your brand, and ultimately, influence users’ actions. This article will discuss the basics of micro-interactions and how you can utilize them to enhance your UX design. What Are Micro-Interactions? In digital design, micro-interactions are… Continue reading How Powerful Micro-Interactions Boost Your UX
20 Best HTML5 and JavaScript Game Engines and Templates
With Flash end-of-life announced for the end of 2020, HTML5 and JavaScript games have quickly taken over, becoming a major source of gaming on the web. With this major shift in the landscape though came a move from largely using one tool to create online games, to using dozens (maybe hundreds!) of different engines, libraries,… Continue reading 20 Best HTML5 and JavaScript Game Engines and Templates
The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design
Every small-scale business or large-scale enterprise requires a website as it helps in achieving business goals, provide essential information to the prospective client and assists in improving the online presence of the company. These websites differ according to the business specification but what’s important is that it should offer an excellent user experience or UX.… Continue reading The Benefits of User Experience in Web Design
10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients
Client meetings don’t just go one way. While your clients might come prepared with a list of questions for you, you’ll want to have some questions of your own. Here are the top ten questions you need to be asking your clients if you aren’t already. Why do you want a website? This question can… Continue reading 10 Questions You Need to Be Asking Your Clients
HanaBot Reservation Chatbot — A Case Study
The Ask: Enhance the chatbot experience and improve the user on-boarding process. User Goals: Ability to make a reservation easily Ability to create an account quickly Ability to alter existing reservations (Ex// Cancellations, extending time) Business Goals: Provide users with a positive reservation experience at HanaHaus AND on-the-go Increase customer engagement with the chatbot Convert… Continue reading HanaBot Reservation Chatbot — A Case Study
Competitive analysis is a method, not a solution
Pineapples might look cool, but that doesn’t mean that every fruit should be spiky. (source) We all have been there: you have been with your team in a room for a couple of hours now, and it seems you hit a dead-end while discussing one design problem. Suddenly, someone brings up the solution for it all:… Continue reading Competitive analysis is a method, not a solution
Tips That Graphic Designers Should Follow
As children, many of us used to draw or doodle to express our thoughts. Perhaps we doodled during lessons when work felt tedious and we no longer wanted to pay attention. Some of may have doodles while thinking, creating a pattern or texture on the page. Perhaps we were discouraged by our early results and… Continue reading Tips That Graphic Designers Should Follow
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
Using the UX process to create a date planning app — and a happy couple.
UX case study for Concept project WeDate App Methods Concept mapping, Storyboard, User flow, Wireframes, Paper prototyping Tools Marvel User research- Asking the right questions. On my second day of my General Assembly UX Immersive course I was tasked with creating an app that solved a problem for the person sitting beside me. I began… Continue reading Using the UX process to create a date planning app — and a happy couple.
Museums, show your collection some love
Part I If you’ve ever visited a museum website, the above navigation structure probably looks familiar to you. Sections for “visit,” “exhibitions,” and “collection” are the core navigational components for the vast majority of museum websites. There’s an essential distinction that museums make between the permanent collection (those objects owned by the institution) and exhibitions… Continue reading Museums, show your collection some love
The Core Elements of Product Design: Strategy, Pillars and Principles
Establish these core elements up front to clarify your best product solution You can quote my partner-in-[design]crime and I on that. I’ve dedicated most of my career to digital design within the walls of big business. The endless uphill battle never ceases to remind me that traditional business models have yet to fully adopt design into… Continue reading The Core Elements of Product Design: Strategy, Pillars and Principles