The holiday season is in full swing. And while most ecommerce businesses have been preparing for this for months already, we can’t help but notice that many of these same businesses are missing one important element in their strategies. Sure, they’ve optimised their mobile apps, set up various discounts and promotions to reel customers in, and updated their merchandising strategies…But what about the customers? How are they experiencing the holiday rush? Are there certain funnels in which they’re struggling?
https://mopinion.com/tis-the-season-for-customer-feedback-heres-why/
Consumer habits are quickly shifting and more online activity is occurring on-the-go with mobile phones, netbooks, e-readers and tablets as opposed to desktops and laptops. Every device and operating system offers a unique user experience with specific functions, requirements and behaviours.
The Problem: Many business websites do not provide a smooth user experience on mobile devices. Users need to ‘pinch-and-zoom’ to properly view webpages, webpages are slow to load and site menus are difficult to access.
Not being accessible on mobile devices results in a loss of local website traffic, mobile leads, and potential profits.
https://greenlotus.ca/blog/responsive-website-design/
Learning to be a top-notch web designer isn’t just about mastering code. Users don’t see raw HTML and JavaScript when they visit a website or start an app. No, users focus on how the site looks, how to get around, how fast the pages or features load and how intuitively it all operates.
https://thenextweb.com/offers/2018/02/14/what-makes-web-users-happy-enroll-and-learn-in-this-rigorous-design-bootcamp/
User experience is now considered a vital, standalone discipline within web design. And with 'UX designer' fully established as a job title, and specialists still in high demand, our user experiences should be better than ever.
However, as demands change and expectations rise, there are still issues facing the discipline. We asked web professionals what barriers they felt were holding us back from creating great user experiences today.
https://www.creativebloq.com/advice/what-are-the-main-barriers-to-good-ux-today/
Your website’s appearance can make or break a transaction. If it isn’t attractive, up-to-date or user-friendly, consumers will be quick to look elsewhere. You need your site to both make a great impression on potential customers and provide an easy and satisfying user experience (UX).
Modern websites can feature a lot of flashy visual features designed to dazzle visitors. While it may be tempting to implement a slew of these “bells and whistles,” these extraneous features may intimidate consumers or make it difficult for them to navigate your site. Below, 13 Forbes Technology Council members list some website features they recommend companies avoid.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/01/28/web-design-donts-13-website-features-that-can-ruin-the-user-experience/#6f20eab57679/
Your website’s appearance can make or break a transaction. If it isn’t attractive, up-to-date or user-friendly, consumers will be quick to look elsewhere. You need your site to both make a great impression on potential customers and provide an easy and satisfying user experience (UX).
Modern websites can feature a lot of flashy visual features designed to dazzle visitors. While it may be tempting to implement a slew of these “bells and whistles,” these extraneous features may intimidate consumers or make it difficult for them to navigate your site. Below, 13 Forbes Technology Council members list some website features they recommend companies avoid.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/01/28/web-design-donts-13-website-features-that-can-ruin-the-user-experience/
The user experience (UX) is all-important in the modern business sphere. The experience your target audience has from the moment they click on your website to (ideally) making a purchase creates impressions. Your website should guide users smoothly along the buyer journey. It should engage with them through meaningful interactions. If your website falls short of expectations, you will lose them to your competitors.
One of the best ways to decrease your bounce rate and boost conversions is to avoid these six common UX mistakes.
Learn about them here:
https://usabilitygeek.com/most-common-ux-mistakes/
When it comes to the IT industry, today several products are there in the marketplace for the buyers from this industry. With millions of products, some of which even have almost similar functions, it is quite a challenge for a business to stand out amidst stiff competition. When it comes to selling software products or web-based applications, one thing that can make an application unique and that is a seamless user interface or UI Design, in short. User interface design is an approach to provide more interactivity, user-friendliness, and satisfaction to the end users. Good UI and UX design have a high impact on business revenue generation and conversion rate.
https://www.promotionworld.com/se/articles/article/180720-essence-seamless-ux-web-design-ecommerce-stores-mobile-apps/
Within the digital realm, faster is almost always synonymous with better. Whether its an internet browser boasting faster loading speeds or a new mobile app that offers a quicker way to order food, when it comes to our digital experiences we want our goals completed as soon as possible.
In the UX world, this holds true often enough. Designers dedicate so much of the SDLC to streamlining user flows or simplifying processes, usually with the intent of making things easier, friendlier, and faster.
So while most designers know there are exceptions to the ‘faster = better UX’ rule (the benefits of injecting friction to an experience are well-documented), fewer grasp the role that speed, and more fundamentally, time, plays in an experience.
In fact, timing is so crucial to UX design that the usability gurus at NNG have crafted an entire ‘powers of ten’-based system for it.
So how can you ensure an experience you are crafting has user-friendly timing? How do you know if a digital product is responding too slow (or, more intriguingly, too fast?) And how can you design experiences while keeping timing in mind?
Find out more.
https://usabilitygeek.com/start-designing-with-perfect-timing/
Many designers have strong opinions about the use of sliders and slider controls in website design. Some love them; others hate them. A poorly-timed carousel or automated gallery slider can distract users from more critical site aspects. On the other hand, a manual slider allows mobile and website users to navigate through a range of content features or options quickly. Explore sliders and slider controls and find out when they are most useful in web design.
https://usabilitygeek.com/sliders-web-design-use/
