A quick Google search of the term “SEO tools” will give you a list of countless apps and software all claiming to help you get higher rankings. For SEO specialists and digital marketers, this can be both good and bad news. Good, because it’s a sign that the industry is constantly evolving. Bad, because finding… Continue reading How to Build an SEO Tool from Scratch
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How to Create Custom Login and Registration Forms in WordPress
The login page is the first thing users will see when they need to access your site, so it needs to be beautiful and user-friendly. A boring login page can give users a bad impression of your site! Customizing the login to match your brand will lead to a better experience for users. In this… Continue reading How to Create Custom Login and Registration Forms in WordPress
UI/UX 101: Break Into Secret Room of Lazy User Psychology
Admit two facts. First, you’re lazy. Second, you’re a user of something. You’re using something every day, from a coffee maker on the kitchen counter to website and mobile app interfaces. Remember how sometimes you’re really stuck while using an interface of something. Randomly clicking on every button, nav element, and link to achieve action… Continue reading UI/UX 101: Break Into Secret Room of Lazy User Psychology
Common Challenges of UX Design for The Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) is a new wave for transforming the way people complete their everyday tasks. It involves inter connectivity between smart devices, allowing them to share information with each other. It is an emerging trend for improving the quality of life as well as the productivity of companies. IoT continues to grow and… Continue reading Common Challenges of UX Design for The Internet of Things
Best Practices for Displaying Form Errors
One of the most important but often neglected aspects of form design is the display of error messages. Helpful and well-designed error messages can improve the user experience, while confusing ones can lead to frustration. Learn how to get it right in our new short course, Best Practices for Displaying Form Errors. What You’ll Learn Submitting… Continue reading Best Practices for Displaying Form Errors
Best Exit Popups for WordPress Compared
Exit popups are used to encourage your web page visitors to subscribe to an email list, follow you on social media, or complete the purchase in their shopping cart. I’ll show you some outstanding popup plugins for WordPress in this post. Does Your Site Need a WordPress Popup Plugin? Here are some of the top… Continue reading Best Exit Popups for WordPress Compared
How to Create Impactful Mobile Strategy for Your Business
A mobile strategy for making your business successful is a way ahead to building a creative path that gets the users involved in the business. Things are pretty much in favor of smartphone if we talk about mobile strategies in order to grow the business. In today’s digital world a strategy to streamline the business… Continue reading How to Create Impactful Mobile Strategy for Your Business
10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
WordPress is one of the most popular website platforms in the world, powering around 30 percent of the Web. It also has about 60 percent market share, beating out platforms like Joomla and Drupal by a long shot. People who use WordPress generally love it, which may be one reason it’s so popular. The other… Continue reading 10 WordPress Tips and Tricks to Steal from the Pros
Best Practices For Website Footer Design
September 17, 2018 by Alex Fox Almost everything in website design has changed over time, but the core elements have always remained the same. There’s a header, navigation, a body, and a footer. But what’s a website footer for? Is it truly necessary, in 2018, to run a footer on your site? Why should I… Continue reading Best Practices For Website Footer Design
So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
When you’re selling a theme, its demo is your sales pitch. If the demo falls short in some way, it’s doing a disservice to the theme and will lead to a loss of sales. If your theme includes hundreds of features, but buyers can’t see them in action, you may as well have no features… Continue reading So You’re Selling a WordPress Theme: Best Practices for Demos
7 Key Factors In Interviewing Users for UX Surveys
When it comes down to it, you need to find out if your design works for the end user. That’s what usability testing is all about. As a designer, you live in a small bubble, intimately familiar with the design, fluent enough to navigate complex menus with ease. But will the user attain the same… Continue reading 7 Key Factors In Interviewing Users for UX Surveys
Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form
When designing modern websites, it is important to bear in mind the criticality of creating a well-balanced, user-friendly form as visitors make their first impression about a business by looking at their online portal. In several cases, the design of the form can make or break the future of the website. User experience plays a… Continue reading Dos and Don’ts of Designing the Perfect Website Form
Creating Smooth User Pathways With Your UX
As a web designer, it’s easy to jump right in to the visual part of web design. We start messing with templates and wireframing pages right away, excited to start a new project. But that’s really the last step of the process. First, we need to think about how our users will progress through the… Continue reading Creating Smooth User Pathways With Your UX
The Hamburger Menu Is Stupid and Worth Killing
If you don’t know what the “hamburger menu” is, it’s a mobile app design icon used to indicate the presence of a hidden menu. The familiar icon includes three horizontal lines of equal length stacked on top of each other, representing an abstracted, flattened hamburger in its most basic elements. Its cutesy name has stuck… Continue reading The Hamburger Menu Is Stupid and Worth Killing
Solving distraction: iOS Do Not Disturb concept
Reverse Engineering Habits “Smartphone addiction” is a bit of a misnomer as people aren’t addicted to the phones per se, but to the actual apps installed on them. In order to understand how to combat habitual behavior, we first need to understand how these apps are designed to suck our attention. Several years ago, “behavioral… Continue reading Solving distraction: iOS Do Not Disturb concept
Best Practices for Designing Push Notifications
Notifications are a crucial part of any app. Not only are they a key part of keeping users engaged with your application: many apps require notifications for their basic functionality. You won’t have much of an email app, for example, if you don’t have notifications. But the line between good notifications and bad notifications is… Continue reading Best Practices for Designing Push Notifications
A Guide to Live Streaming
Live streaming is one of the key things you should be doing for your business in 2018. We’ve got everything you need to know below. More and more users are going to social media for their information and entertainment, and businesses have done well to respond by investing in social media. However, consumers have a… Continue reading A Guide to Live Streaming
Database and API ― Scotch
To get paid for goods and services provided, companies/freelancers need to send invoices to their customers informing them of the services that they will be charged for. Back then, people had paper invoices which they gave to the customers when they contact them for their services. Right now, with the advent and advancement of technology,… Continue reading Database and API ― Scotch
How to Write Helpful User Tutorials and Onboarding Guides
Writing user tutorials is essential to launching any new software project. But writing helpful user tutorials requires a careful hand, with a correct understanding of the user’s needs and expectations. With a solid foundation of empathy and understanding, we can build user tutorials that will educate our users without losing their attention or going over… Continue reading How to Write Helpful User Tutorials and Onboarding Guides
Consulting WordPress Theme Review
Do you run a consulting business, or are you just starting up one of these companies currently? You know that you need to have a quality website that can provide your clients with the information they need to learn more about your company and the services you offer. A website using WordPress is always going… Continue reading Consulting WordPress Theme Review
Rippplr
I am still recoiling from the loads of information and knowledge sharing that happened during IxD14 last week. You guys should follow #1xd14 on twitter and catch up on the videos at Vimeo channel. During the conference, I conducted a workshop at the HKU on “Playful Thinking”. To give you a short introduction, ‘Playful Thinking’… Continue reading Rippplr
Build Better Contact Forms with These Guidelines
Look around the web, and you’ll see that web developers (and their clients) love contact forms. And for good reason: they collect important information about customers cheaply and effectively. But so many of these forms are clumsily designed or poorly implemented, cutting companies off from their customer. Avoid these problems and learn to build better… Continue reading Build Better Contact Forms with These Guidelines
Stop Being an Ego Designer
Wow! The new client project has landed and you will be the lead designer! Great, everybody has to do your biddings. Gnaar! Thats wrong, dude! Photo by: Nik MacMillan I believe that every project and teamwork will push you more into the character of an altruist. Designing a digital product with your ego creates a… Continue reading Stop Being an Ego Designer
They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”
We’re living in the era of the “UX enthusiastics”: some people just feel they have a natural talent about anything related to “user” AND “experience” and this enables them to randomly act and feel as UX designer. Someone should tell them that this is one of those cases when a natural talent in not enough… Continue reading They are all around us: 6 archetypes of self-assessed “UX designers”