The basic homepage design is so 2012. The supposed magic formula of 10 elements to include for a successful home page isn’t enough anymore for a simple reason — it’s too formulaic. And that can create for a boring homepage that’ll drive users away. That’s not to say those page elements don’t have function —
(…)Photo Credit: George, Creative Commons 2.0 Fast-food websites are an interesting mix of user experiences. They aren’t hard to land upon since fast-food joints register every domain name imaginable that relates to their name and menu items. This assures you’ll be enticed — brainwashed to run right out for a meal. A perfect mix of
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In this piece, we’ll explain how to get started in UX with the least learning curve possible. We scoured the web and spoke with our own design team for the most straightforward advice. Check it out!
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Start your free trialWhen it comes to user experience and user interface design, Google and Yahoo both do a decent job (granted, in different ways). In this piece, we’ll quickly explain some practical takeaways from the UI and UX design of each site.
Skeuomorphism gives way to flat, and flat gives way to … something in between. One technique that’s taken hold in recent years is parallax scrolling — a visual effect that adds the illusion of depth to your site. In this piece, we’ll explain a few things you must consider if you want this technique to work
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In Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, a team of designers, developers and strategists craft innovative UX designs for some big name companies, such as Kind, Boxed and Daily Burn. This is Barrel — one of the top design agencies around and one of our favorite customers. They’ve been using UXPin on a daily basis to collaborate with
(…)Photo credit: Jeremy Keith, Creative Commons Responsive web design has exploded in popularity — thanks to the need to create sites that work across numerous devices. However, responsive design comes with some problems of its own. The issue of slow-to-load sites is now well documented. Let’s walk through some of the tricks designers are using to
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In our latest free e-book, we explain how to master the intangible elements of interaction design. Read on to get a sneak peek inside the book!
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In Part 1, we described how we started sketching and wireframing based off the qualitative insights and quantitative insights from our user testing on Yelp’s website. Now, we’ll look at low fidelity prototyping, high fidelity prototyping, and the final new design.
User Analysis allows you to get actionable insight about users and their behavior which will inform your UX design strategy. You need to know your user as a person, understand how and why they’d use your product (and how often), and all the experiences that come between them and your product. That multi-dimensional understanding is
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Hot off the press is our newest 109-page e-book on usability testing. Since what users say and what users do can be two totally different things, we thought it’d help to cover the tactics you can use to get to the truth. Read on to get a sneak peek and see what’s inside the 109
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In our previous posts, we described the qualitative insights and quantitative insights from our user testing on Yelp’s website. Now that the results and analysis were done, it was time to put pen to paper and our cursors to the screen to get designing. We’ll show side by side comparisons of the current Yelp design
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Our last post talked about our qualitative analysis of the user tests on Yelp’s website. We found 7 key insights, such as learning that the Events tab wasn’t very helpful and that the filters could use improvement. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at quantitative analysis on the Yelp site by discussing the
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