Welcome back to our series on improving the UX of your online platforms through the use of credible content. The whole series can be found under the UX Daily tab on our website.Today, we’re going to look at, perhaps, the most obvious way to help your users – providing support when they need it.Offer
In my head, the UX Daily, was my idea. Yet, it’s not the first time the idea of a magazine style offering has been kicked around at the IxDF HQ but it is the first time it came into fruition. It turns out that though the UX daily was my idea; it’s been a lot of other peoples’ ideas first. We recogni
Welcome back, our series on enhancing UX with credible content continues today but if you’ve missed any of the rest of the series – you can find it under the UX Daily tab on our website.One of the simplest ways to enhance the user experience is to communicate clearly and meaningfully with your users
UX research is the most essential part of the UX design process. If you don’t find out what your users want (or need); it is nearly impossible to provide them with the right user experience. That often means that we need to build a team of researchers that can be thrown into action when they’re need
Welcome back to the part of our series designed to help you enhance the user experience through the use of credible content. The rest of the series, and the final part when it is published tomorrow, may be found under the UX Daily tab on our website.Today, we’re going to look at a critical issue – h
Why conduct user testing?There are no guarantees in design; something embraced by one group may well be rejected by another, but this does not mean we should discount the benefits of speaking to, observing, and testing a sample of users. User-centred design emphasises the importance of engaging the
There’s an awful lot of conflicting information about the way people read on the web. There was a time when search engines were designed to find any text with any content that had your keywords in it. Then people started to realize that that sucked. We wanted useful information and not just text.The
This week we’re examining how content can help enhance the user experience and add credibility to your online offerings. You can find all the parts of the series (as they’re released) under the UX Daily tab on our website.Today, we tackle ethical concerns. In particular we’re going to look at some o
The arrangement of items within user interfaces may, at times, seem a minor detail, but we are finely tuned to perceive order and structure. When items are in close proximity we see them as belonging to, or forming the same group. When users are meant to view items as grouped, place them close to on
Enthusiasm can be the death of us. Being a great designer isn’t enough to keep your projects on track and in budget; it’s vital that at some point early in the project – that you define the scope of that project. This is useful for many reasons including: your clients will know when you have deliver
"Formal methods" sounds kind of scary but it in reality it’s a way of saying; “the system with which we record ideas/information/etc.” and that’s rather less scary. In Human Computer Interaction (HCI) there are a multitude of formal methods, in use, to record ideas and other types of information. To
Many designers are businessmen/women in their own right. The freelance market for designers in all fields is huge and both new entrants to design and long-established pros often find that selling their products/services directly to a client is more appealing than working for someone else.One of the
The need for consistency is a principle of design common to all lists of user interface design guidelines (e.g. Shneiderman's 'Eight Golden Rules' and Nielsen and Molich's Ten UI Design Heuristics) for a reason; it underpins immersion. The ability to move freely through any display with little consi
The best products aren’t just used, they’re cared for and they’re loved and they bring out real emotions in their users. In the book Emotion and Website Design by Dianne Cyr (Professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Frazer University in Vancouver) you will find 4 outcomes that elicit emot
The freelance designer is often seen to have the best job in the world. That’s because other people see you start work from home or learn that you get a long weekend whenever you want one because you can change your work schedule to suit your needs. The bit that they miss is that you are also the on
It’s quite amazing how many sales psychology tricks are employed online. The theory is simple; the online vendor wants to persuade the user to spend as much money as possible or at the very least to spend some money before they leave the website. A Typical Tactic Amazon offers free delivery right?
Apple Watch GUI for SketchDesigncode.io has highly accurately reproduced apple’s new watch GUI in 100% vector for Sketch including all elements such as clocks, icons and watch devices that you may export and play around with however you wish. The kit lets you analyse various UI elements and use them
It’s very easy to leap into the field of “User Experience” without ever taking so much as a minute to look at the word “experience”. It’s such a familiar word that we can struggle to articulate what it means even while we know exactly what it means to us.There are in fact several classic types of ex
The humble icon has come a long way in a very short time. For those of us who have grown up in the modern age it may feel like this is a world that has never lacked for computer icons; they are ubiquitous. The reality is that the icon is a rather more recent invention with the first real icon based
It’s nice to take a few minutes every now and again and appreciate just what a difference design can make to our lives. We’ve picked 5 classic designs which revolutionized the world around us. What do you think? Are there other designs you’d like to include on this list? Or have we got something rea
AI is replacing jobs everywhere, yet design jobs are booming with a projected 45% job growth. With design skills, you can create products and services people love. More love means more impact and greater salary potential.
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