UX

UX (User Experience) is all about designing the user’s experience, from their first impressions to the lasting relationship they have with your website.

5 Ways to Design for a Local Audience

In a recent post, I discussed how caution needs to be taken when designing websites for a global audience. Different…

7 Ways To Design for a Global Audience

Before you ever sit down to design a website for a client, you develop user personas that are representative of their…

The Best Designers are Taoists (Sort Of)

Okay, for the love of any God you prefer, read this bit before you start writing comments…please? I’ve been studying up…

How to Recover Abandoned eCommerce Carts

If WordPress is the world’s favorite blogging platform, then WooCommerce is surely the most popular e-commerce solution…

Streamlining UX with Anticipatory Design

Creating great UX is a primary goal for all product designers. It’s up to the designer to make a process of interaction…

7 Elements of Good UX in 2018

UX is a crucial component of modern web design, and users’ expectations are constantly shifting. Though we cannot see…

Writing for the Modern Minimalist Website

They say that an image is worth a thousand words, and web designers certainly seem to have taken it to heart: the trend…

8 Steps to Using Live Streaming as Part of Your Content Strategy

Exposure. Engagement. Interaction. Trolls calling you horrible things in real time. You can have all of these buzzwords…

11 Secrets of Actionable UX Reports

When designers and developers work on projects, they have a lot of questions: What do our users expect to see on this…

4 Ways to Improve Your Site’s Content

“Why isn’t my site ranking in searches? Why has traffic not improved since we hired you? Calls from customers are…

7 UX Principles for Creating a Great Website

We spend a lot of time online reading news, navigating websites and using web apps. In some cases, our experience…

Frictionless UX: How to Create Smooth User Flows

Almost two decades ago Steve Krug first advised us not to make users think. Today designers strive to create…

9 A11y Tips for Global Accessibility Awareness Day

The 17th May 2018 is Global Accessibility Awareness day, which makes today the ideal time to consider how inclusive our…

UX Fundamentals: 3 Ways to Apply Availability Heuristics

Every decision to buy something is made via a whole range of mental shortcuts. Understanding these heuristics is…

8 Ways to Emotionally Reward Your Users

As sometimes happens, I was thinking the other day. In this case, I was doing my thinking after finishing a long video…

How Long is the Perfect Blog Post?

There’s an old saying about dresses and speeches which rightly points out that both should be long enough to cover the…

The Role of Place-Onas in the Future of UX

Most people are familiar with the concept of a persona—a fictional character that embodies the traits of your target…

The Psychology of Price in UX

As humans, we tend to rely heavily on one piece of information when we make decisions. We often anchor on the first…