Every website designer’s goal is to make their website as engaging as possible to its visitors. The logic is fairly simple; that engagement means more traffic and use. But how do you achieve this goal and make users feel comfortable enough to convert? In this video, Dr. Susan Weinschenk shows us these seven…
3 Online News Sites that Have Nailed Website Usability
The way we get the news has changed dramatically. Rather than grabbing the morning paper at your local Starbucks, you simply grab your phone and check what’s going on around the world. With the increasing use of mobile news applications and websites comes the increasing importance of good usability. Here are three online news sources…
LeBron James is the King of the NBA – and Usability?
Sports fans everywhere know that LeBron James is arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. After leading his Cleveland Cavaliers to their first championship in franchise history on Sunday, “King James” has further cemented his place among the basketball immortals. James can teach us a lot about what it takes to be great at…
10 Companies that are Champions of Customer Centricity
Customer centricity is more than a buzzword It is a big business trend in 2016. That does not mean that it’s not a buzzword. Simply put it is the rare buzzword unicorn, both a meaningful phrase and an important part of business in 2016. Many major corporations are focusing on the customers experiences that surpass…
The top 3 Most Usable Websites in 2016
Apple Pioneer Steve Jobs once described design as “not just what it looks like and feels like, but design is how it works.” When it comes to the most usable websites, the visual impression that you get from a site is a very important accompaniment to the practicality of how fast you can attain the…
Google Rich Cards Show an Understanding of Usability
Google has recently announced the introduction of ‘ Google rich cards’. Rich cards are built on the shoulder of its predecessor ‘rich snippets’. The idea behind this updated search result format is to improve the mobile experience of the user. The usability improvement focuses on Google’s understanding that users are looking for a simplified process.…
Guerilla Testing with Usability Café
“It only takes 5 users to discover over 85% of usability problems.” Usability means, in the most simple understanding, that users can use an application easily for its intended purpose. However, problems with usability are one of the biggest reasons users don’t enjoy using an app and as a result of this many don’t become…
What is a Wireframe Design?
Simply stated, a Wireframe design is a blueprint for your product. A Wireframe is a useful tool and will make the process of creating and designing websites and apps much simpler. By presenting the product in its basic form, we are able to better focus on functionality and user interactivity. Wireframe design also allows us…
7 Brilliant Free Website Testing Tools
After months of talk, and development your software or website is finished. Amazing work everyone let’s go live. Not so fast. We need to test the site. There is nothing that puts a manager or executive in a worse mood than to discover something supposedly completed is not really complete at all. Enter website testing…