Who said the listicle was dead?
To celebrate the recent release of our Ecommerce Best Practice Guide, I decided to round up a barrage of fancy, neat and impressive UX features. Some are simple established best practice, others are particularly innovative.
Most of the features help to usher the user along towards finding the right product and then purchasing it.
https://econsultancy.com/blog/69552-93-ecommerce-ux-features-that-create-user-flow/
When it comes to UX design, there are a lot of passing trends that come and go. Everyone seems to think they have the inside scoop on what will be popular in the upcoming 12 months. However, some UX design strategies stand the test of time year after year.
https://uxplanet.org/8-ux-design-strategies-that-will-stand-the-test-of-time-bad50481603a/
One of the fables that floats around UX teams is that of the US space program and its quest for a pen that could be used in anti-gravity.
They reportedly spent million dollars developing a high-tech writing utensil with ink that remained solid until the flow of writing and a pressurized chamber that made it useful upside-down. The Russian cosmonauts, however, simply brought pencils.
Though this story isn’t wholly true, it shines light on the necessity of understanding the larger picture. The space pen did make it into orbit and was a privately-funded accomplishment in engineering...
https://thenextweb.com/uxdesign/2016/02/03/8-habits-of-veteran-ux-designers/
Hiring enough software engineers, DevOps managers, cloud computing specialists and other roles required to facilitate IT transformations remain tall tasks for CIOs. But the talent crunch isn't limited to those with coding skills and algorithmic thinking: Enterprises are also struggling to hire staff with soft skills who can help shape the user experience around digital services.
http://www.cio.in/feature/8-essential-roles-successful-digital-transformation/
As UI designers, we are confronted with design problems every day. Knowing how best to tackle these issues means investigating, analysing, testing and prototyping solutions until we get the answer that fits our user’s needs.
UI design is less about making something look attractive (although it helps) and more knowing how to create a valid path from idea to execution, backed with statistics and evidence, for the benefit of our users. Otherwise, you are shooting in the dark and crossing your fingers you hit the bullseye. Thankfully, instead of relying on blind faith, there exist usability heuristics to steadily guide UI designers and keep us on the right track.
https://usabilitygeek.com/usability-heuristics-ui-designers-know/
Maps are now a must-have for almost every website. For many mobile applications interfaces, a map is also a necessary thing. If to talk of an Uber-like service — it couldn’t do without a map. How to create a unique map and not to spend a lot of time on the map design? These free tools for designers will help each designer to create a map easily in the style of service which they are developing.
https://uxplanet.org/7-free-tools-for-designers-map-creation-16ea68c83ffd/
We're all marketers, but we're also consumers. What email marketing lessons can we learn from our own user experience? Straight out of my own inbox, here are some from brands like Dunkin Donuts, Spirit Airlines and Spotify.
https://www.clickz.com/email-marketing-lessons-dunkin-donuts/207872/
Books are a popular choice if you want to learn user experience (UX) design or improve your UX skills.
UX design is vital for any designer to have skills in, and not just to create apps or websites, but now UX design includes voice-controlled devices like the Apple HomePod, Google Home and Amazon Echo – just check out the UX design trends of 2018 to see more on that.
https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/features/interactive-design/7-best-ux-design-books-help-you-learn-master-ux/
“Trust” is a word you often hear in business models and marketing strategies today. The new generation of consumers places great importance on how honest, transparent, and authentic a brand is.
According to one SDL study, millennials are seven times more likely to give personal information to a brand they trust as opposed to any other brand. Around the world, consumers want every aspect of a brand to exhibit trustworthiness, from the About Us page to a secure checkout process.
Here are six user experience (UX) design tips that can help a brand achieve this golden standard, and secure customer loyalty for the long haul.
https://usabilitygeek.com/create-trust-using-ux-design/
Anyone who’s familiar with best practices in design fields knows how important it is to commit time and resources to UX development. How people feel when they use your UI has a significant effect on the actions they take and the opinions they form, which of course affects conversions, profits, and overall business success.
http://theuxblog.com/blog/ux-rules-for-tech-startups/
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