Of course, your goal is to get more and more users and engage them with your application. But how can the user experience of your product help? How can you measure if your users are engaged? And how can you find out why they are not?
Measuring design and utilizing data are essential steps towards creating a sustainable product. UX metrics are the solution. Let me show you how to use data to improve your product.
It’s a UX mantra and also a mission statement to create useful and usable products. Thus, creating useful and usable content is also self-evident. But is it really? It’s also one of the fundamental statements that copy is part of user experience and the UX Designer is responsible for providing a copy suggestion that is reviewed, tested and iterated. As all skills, UX writing also needs to be practiced, so there’s a chance you are a UX Designer with a lucky combination of skill sets.
The recent appearance of the UX Writer position reflects the complex digital tendency beyond the user interface, drawing the importance of strategy behind content.
Probably the most common question about UX is how to start screen design and what principles should we care about? Designing screens starts with sketching. We at UX studio start with quick paper sketches, then build wireframes and clickable prototypes, test them, repair them, and finally get to the pixel perfect, colorful detailed design plans. In what follows we will show you the eight most important rules of thumb which one needs to take into account when designing screens. These are the basics for anyone who is working on designing a digital product.
Looking at the crazy yet charming diversity of old websites reminds me of typical scenarios of teenage years. The bittersweet era of exploration, the search for identity, trying to be different from everyone else, feeling determined and entitled, yet doing the same mistakes and looking just as clumsy and unsettled as everyone else at this age.
Approximately 60% of the world’s population can’t read this article. Why? Mainly, because they are too young to read or they don’t understand the language, or maybe they can’t read at all. How would you succeed in a world where you can’t understand anything of the written language? How would you interact with interfaces, for instance? You can try it out with these text-free interfaces!
We all love material design. The well-designed structure, the consistent visuals and the freakishly well-documented guideline. And yes, the guidelines are easy to use on mobile but parts of it fail on desktop applications.
Customer journey mapping needs to be more than just an eyecandy in your product design process. These journeys are ideal when you have to think about complex issues. The output, the infographics are always something to gloat with in front of your colleagues and clients. But sometimes – just sometimes – it’s a little bit overwhelming and not actionable enough. Let’s take a tiny example: I have 8×8 brackets in my journey. What should I do? I can’t take all of these into consideration! Touchpoints are a great place to start but you can also boost these taking newer research into consideration.
Are you the one who has or deals with ecommerce sites somehow? Then I have news for you: You have to be a pro in UX. User experience is the key to your sites’ growth. There are plenty of case studies about this topic which focus on the best practices. In this article, I would like to give you another viewpoint with the 3 most important parts of the ecommerce UX. Those 3 fields are: customer service, checkout flow, and trust building.
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Maybe I’m alone on this, but I hate those kinds of restaurants, where they have like a hundred different dishes on their menu. Because of the terrifying number of choices, I get decision paralysis and I usually end up ordering grilled cheese with potato on the side. This phenomena is described in Hick’s law and plays an important role in the process of designing an application or website. Having forgotten about it can destroy the user experience of an otherwise good product, and this is what almost happened to us.
Just like cancer, a bad feature will slowly kill your app. Finding those features in time may just save your product. To eliminate the harmful features we used customer journey mapping, which is an incredibly useful tool to understand and improve your customer experience. The tool was used as a part of a longer process, we used customer journey mapping as a key element to identify the features we needed in a fashion and lifestyle application. Read More »
Sometimes designers are so busy designing a navigation structure, they forget that most of the people won’t even give a try to the menu. They will just leave your app, if they can’t do what they want on the screen they are. In our recent project with RisingStack we found this problem two times. Let me show it to you.
Have you been stuck with killing a boss in a game? Math homework too hard? These are just examples where personalized video answers could make your life easier. Quideo helps you in those situations, and brings a new era to Q/A solutions. You just need to post a question and others will help you in those challenging situations in a video format.
Your menu structure is not a place to promote your brand. It’s a signpost to help people find information and navigate between pages. This is the story of how we redesigned the navigation of a site with more than a hundred different pages.
You would expect that in the era of JQuery, the construction of a drag and drop interface is a piece of cake. A little while back, we have been testing the drag and drop interface of a number of applications; namely, the interfaces of MiniCRM, Brickflow and Protopmail. We had some surprising results.
Many of our clients tell us how hard they found it to work with designers in the past. Hence, we’ve collected a list containing the 11 characteristics of a good designer. Read More »
One of the first design elements users meet with in an application is the so-called “empty state”. When we first open a CRM software, the list of our customers is yet empty. When we open a new document for editing, the document is plain. Traditionally, in case of a desktop/offline application, blankness is an indicator that content can be filled in there.
Sketching on paper is a good way to quickly lay out multiple possibilities, whereas high-fidelity wireframes are better for modelling the final design. When to use one and when the other? When do we apply exact measurements and colors, and when do we not?
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