Nielsen Fresh Start Effect: How to Motivate Users with New Beginnings
April 24, 2016
Clean slates encourage people to pursue their goals. Designers can leverage this tendency by adjusting message timing and content.
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University Websites: Top 10 Design Guidelines
April 24, 2016
An effective university website can increase conversions for prospective students and alumni, strengthen institutional credibility and brand, improve user satisfaction, and save the university time and money.
Checklist for Planning Usability Studies
April 17, 2016
Planning a user test? Follow these 9 steps to make sure you are prepared.
Perceived Value in User Interfaces
April 17, 2016
The perceived value of a site represents the benefit that users expect to derive from using it. High expectations make users more likely to engage with the site.
The Anatomy of a List Entry
April 10, 2016
To support scanning and product comparison, item descriptions on listing pages should have a visual design and layout that preserve content priorities.
Young Adults/Millennials as Web Users (Ages 18–25)
April 10, 2016
Members of the often misunderstood Millennial generation exhibit unique behaviors and approaches to digital interfaces. They are confident and error prone, and they have high expectations of websites.
Difficult Designs Are Better (for Humanity)
April 1, 2016
Expand your users’ cognitive abilities and make them think harder. Create complex interaction flows and clever, nonobvious interfaces.
Front-End Style-Guides: Definition, Requirements, Component Checklist
March 27, 2016
Front-end style guides help efficient design and testing, and enforce UI consistency. We present 8 style-guide requirements and 25 common components.
3 Ways to Inspire Intranet Content Authors
March 27, 2016
Organizational, group and individual support for content creators is necessary to encourage and create strong intranet content.
How Chunking Helps Content Processing
March 20, 2016
Chunking is a concept that originates from the field of cognitive psychology. UX professionals can break their text and multimedia content into smaller chunks to help users process, understand, and remember it better.