Adaptive and responsive websites are very similar, as they both adjust the user interface (UI) of a website depending on the width of the browser window. However, the way in which they do this is what makes the two techniques different. As a UX design agency, at Codal, we are always asked for recommendations based on the project, budget, and resources. Aside from that, … [Read more...]
Small Print In Graphic Communication And Information Design: A Discussion Of Issues And Interactions
You might consider small print boring or not valuable or interesting, but discussing small print: the way it is presented and used, could be interesting to explore and could raise some interesting points for writing and graphic communication and information design in general. This article is partly inspired by the point from information designer Patricia Wright from … [Read more...]
Hyperlink Usability: Guidelines For Usable Links
Hyperlinks. Interacting with them is perhaps the most frequent action done by users every time they go online. A 2010 Nielsen report estimated that the average user visits 2,646 different web pages per day, each of which may have up to 100 hyperlinks on them. That is 88 webpages a day, and almost 900 links seen, if not clicked. Based on the above figures, it can be … [Read more...]
Official Usability, User Experience And User Interface Guidelines From Companies (2016)
Veterans of Usability Geek may remember an article published in 2011 that provided a helpful list of UX and UI guidelines for designers with an interest in platforms developed by the likes of Apple, Google, and SAP. For years, it has served as the definitive jumping-off point for designers in need of a convenient, curated list with links to UX and UI design guidelines … [Read more...]
5 Common Mistakes Made When Writing User Surveys
Writing user surveys is a difficult undertaking; it is truly a form of art. The expertise of our team at User Conversion consists of various UX researchers, user psychologists, UX designers and web analysts. However you may be surprised to hear that even with all these specialisations, we still regard writing surveys as a difficult task to undertake. There are mistakes … [Read more...]
10 Guidelines For Using Material Design Wisely
Material design has become more of a buzzword recently. While the elements of material design have supported many beautifully-designed and intuitively crafted sites, they have also created something of a bandwagon and many sites are starting to fall into a common mold. Google introduced its material design guidelines in 2014 as a design language focused on creating a … [Read more...]
Product Images – 10 Steps For Better eCommerce Usability
When a user makes a purchase on your website, there are many factors which contribute to a successful conversion. To name just a few, there is trust, design, speed and usability. It would be simplistic to narrow the reason down to just one such factor. Assuming that your site’s design, speed, usability, and trustworthiness have brought the customer as far as your … [Read more...]
5 Registration Form Usability Guidelines
As a business owner, one familiar mistake you may have made on your web page is to have too many fields within a registration form. In many situations, websites and applications will overburden their form field in an attempt to obtain the most data about their users, especially for the benefit of future marketing campaigns. This commonly results in a frustrated and … [Read more...]
First-Time Use: How To Reduce The Initial Friction Of App Usage
There's plenty of material out there that will happily tell you that First-Time Use (FTU) is the most important part of app adoption. After all, it is a precarious time in your app's usage lifecycle. Exactly like everything else relying on the fickle human brain, first impressions count for a scary amount. In fact, by reducing the friction during FTU we could stop … [Read more...]
10 Guidelines For Navigation Usability
When it comes to usability, ease-of-navigation should be a top priority for web developers. The number one most annoying feature of a website is improper or confusing navigation, leaving users lost and wondering what to do next. If you’re lucky enough, some users just might scour through the website to accomplish their purpose of visiting the website. However, most users … [Read more...]
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