Articles

Tim Neusesser

Tim Neusesser is a guest instructor at Nielsen Norman Group. With a strong business background, his fields of expertise include strategy, management, and analytics.

Articles and Videos

  • Choose Customer Loyalty over Short-Term Profit

    Prioritizing user loyalty over short-term profit maximization leads to sustainable growth by fostering trust, customer retention, and long-term profitability.

  • Unlock Powerful UX Insights with Custom Events in Analytics

    Discover how custom events in analytics can transform your UX strategy by providing detailed insights into critical user behaviors, allowing for better-informed design decisions.

  • How to Conduct a Competitive Usability Evaluation

    Competitive usability evaluations help you understand how your competitors solve certain design problems and how you might outperform them. These evaluations are often performed at the beginning of design projects to shift their direction toward areas of opportunity.

  • Error Messages: 4 Guidelines for Effective Communication

    Communicate effectively with your error messages by using human-readable language, concisely and precisely describing the issue, offering constructive advice, and not blaming the user.

  • The 6 Rules of Design Thinking

    Follow the 6 rules of design thinking during workshops to help participants embrace the core principles of design thinking and ensure successful outcomes.

  • A/B Testing 101

    A/B tests incrementally improve the user experience of a product while effectively reaching business goals.

  • Success Rate vs. Completion Rate

    Measure completion rate when users follow a linear process with a fixed number of steps; use success rate when there are multiple ways to accomplish a task.

  • Macro vs. Micro Conversions

    Macro conversions are desired user actions that directly contribute to your business's primary goals. In contrast, micro conversions are user actions that precede macro conversions and occur more frequently.

  • How to Increase the Visibility of Error Messages

    Error messages can be a crucial point in the user experience. To be effective, they must be clearly visible, which can be accomplished by displaying them close to the error's source, using noticeable, redundant, and accessible indicators, designing them based on their impact, and avoiding displaying them prematurely.

  • Successful Projects: 7 Steps for Better Collaboration

    Effective collaboration can be challenging, yet it is crucial for successful outcomes. By following 7 steps for better collaboration, you can avoid the most common issues and set yourself up for success.