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Francisco Inchauste - Better User Experience With Storytelling (Part 2)

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continu

Storytelling , ux , Usability , Emotional Design

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David Morgan - The 10 Commandments Of Efficient Design In Axure

Axure is a powerful tool for creating software prototypes quickly. Getting started with it is really easy; however, therein lies a danger. The tool is so intuitive that many users can be productive

Ideation , Tools , ux , Usability

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Vitaly Friedman - Should Links Open In New Windows?

Visitors to the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows then open dozens of links in new windows manually. Visitors of less-heavy-linkage-sites are more likely

ux , Tabs , Usability , Javascript

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Leigh Howells - A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews

How To Tell Whether A Website Is Junk We are all reviewers. We review many websites every day without even realizing it. In fact, many of us are experts at it. We don’t realize it because the whole

ux , Usability

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Dmitry Fadeyev - 9 Common Usability Mistakes In Web Design

By now, all good designers and developers realize the importance of usability for their work. Usable websites offer great user experiences, and great user experiences lead to happy customers. Deligh

ux , Usability , Web Design

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David Travis - Persuasion Triggers In Web Design

How do you make decisions? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic.

ux , Usability , Emotional Design , Psychology

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Mikhail Prosmitskiy - WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation

Since their introduction in 1999, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have shaped how we design and develop inclusive digital products. The WCAG 2.x series, released in 2008, introduced

Accessibility , Usability , User Experience , Design

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Adrian Zumbrunnen - Smart Transitions In User Experience Design

When we design digital products, we often use design applications such as Photoshop and Sketch. Most people who have been in the business for a few years obviously know that design is more than just

Graphic Design , Interaction Design , Usability

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John C Barstow - Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website

Dyslexia is perhaps the most common learning disorder in the world, affecting somewhere between 10–20% of the world’s population. It can cause difficulties with reading, writing, and spelling, thoug

Techniques , Accessibility , Usability , Css , User Experience

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Anthony T - Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups And Log-Ins

There are many ways to design sign-up and log-in forms. Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. But understanding and applying a few innovative techniques could make your forms simpl

CAPTCHA , Forms , Security , ux , Usability , Design

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Rung András - Principles Of Effective Search In E-Commerce Design

On the contrary, well-devised advanced search offers several benefits and can be more than just a clumsy, complicated tool. First of all, effective search can accelerate the sales process. And faste

ux , Usability , E-Commerce

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Andrew Maier - Designing For Start-Ups: How To Deliver The Message Across

At least, that’s the idea. Most start-ups tend to take liberties somewhere along the way. Some start-ups begin with a novel business model, whereas others begin with a beautiful design. Still others

ux , Usability

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Laura Klein - Breaking The Rules: A UX Case Study

I read a lot of design articles about best practices for improving the flow of sign-up forms. Most of these articles offer great advice, such as minimizing the number of steps, asking for as little

ux , Usability , Case Studies

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Marko Dugonjić - Pragmatic UX Techniques For Smarter Websites

What is “User Experience Design” exactly? Should you not start it unless you are fully dedicated, or should you embrace it in the process as soon as possible? Are all designers also user experience

Interaction Design , User Research , ux , Usability , Product Strategy

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Hyrum Denney - A Sticky Menu Is Quicker To Navigate

Most designers would agree that navigation is one of the most critical components of a website. Despite this, it is not always easy to use or access. Traditionally, users must scroll back to the top

Interaction Design , ux , Usability

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Vitaly Friedman - Rethinking Authentication UX

Authentication is a tricky subject. There are so many terms floating around us, from 2FA to MFA to OTP — and it might be difficult to make sense of what we need and when we need it. But authenticati

Design Patterns , ux , Usability , authentication

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Samantha Ingram - The Thumb Zone: Designing For Mobile Users

Have you ever interacted with a mobile website or app that simply didn’t play nice with your thumbs? Perhaps you’ve had to stretch to get to an important menu, or swiping turned into a battle with m

ux , Android , Usability , ios

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Sven Lennartz - A Short Story About “Back To Top” Links

Often it is the close attention to small details that makes a design outstanding. During the development of a website, designers tend to quickly forget about small details and focus on major design

Navigation , ux , Usability , Web Design

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Joshua Mauldin - Giving Your Product A Soul

After a few years of designing products for clients, I began to feel fatigued. I wondered why. Turns out, I’d been chasing metric after metric. “Increase those page views!” “Help people spend more t

ux , Usability , Product Strategy

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Christian Holst - Redesigning The Country Selector

However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out usability (which we wrote about here on Smashing Magazine back in April 2011), we consistently found usability issues with the m

Interaction Design , Design Patterns , Best Practices , ux , Usability , Design

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Eva Rio - How To Apply UX Principles To Embedded Systems: Learnings From The Field

Embedded systems mean different things to different people; they can be standalone and independent, working by themselves, or be a part of a larger system. They are purpose-built for a particular ap

ux , Devices , Usability , User Experience

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Lyndon Cerejo - Improving The Online Shopping Experience, Part 2: Guiding Customers Through The Buying Process

Part 1 of “Improving the Online Shopping Experience” focused on the upper part of the purchase funnel and on ways to get customers to your website and to find your products. Today, we move down the

seo , ux , Search , Usability , Psychology

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Tim Jensen - Assessing Mobile Usability With Google Webmaster Tools

Back in 2013, Google officially announced that it would begin to penalize websites that provide a faulty user experience on mobile devices. Specific examples included redirecting inner URLs to a hom

seo , mobile , Tools , Usability

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Steven Snell - Redesigning Craigslist With Focus On Usability

Craigslist is obviously one of the most popular websites in the world, and each month it serves millions of users who post and view classified ads on the website. At the time this article was writte

Redesign , ux , Usability

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