Branding Articles & Videos

  • The 3 C’s of Informational Microcopy

    Well-written informational microcopy should be clear, concise, and have character.

  • Net Promoter Score: What a Customer-Relations Metric Can Tell You About Your User Experience

    NPS is a loyalty metric that correlates well with perception of usability, is easy to understand and administer, but has limitations for understanding and evaluating UX when used in isolation.

  • Design Systems vs. Style Guides

    Design systems are a set of standards (like Google’s Material Design or IBM’s Carbon Design System) needed to manage design at scale. Style guides (like content or visual style guides) are just one piece in a design system.

  • Design Systems 101

    A design system is a set of standards for managing design at scale, reducing redundancy and creating a shared language and visual consistency across channels.

  • Branding an Intranet

    The name of the intranet, its logo, and the visual relationship with the company’s external website are key elements to consider when establishing a brand and an identity for your intranet.

  • Intranet Design After a Merger or Acquisition

    Building an intranet for a newly expanded organization calls for empathy, balance, and often some resistance toward upper management.

  • Banner Blindness Revisited: Users Dodge Ads on Mobile and Desktop

    Users have learned to ignore content that resembles ads, is close to ads, or appears in locations traditionally dedicated to ads.

  • Five User Requirements for Online Ads

    Adhering to user expectations and usability heuristics will ensure advertising content is delivered seamlessly and that brand image holds integrity.

  • The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques

    Modal ads, ads that reorganize content, and autoplaying video ads were among the most disliked. Ads that are annoying on desktop become intolerable on mobile.

  • Brand Vocabulary in the Context of UX: Key Terms Defined

    A cheat sheet of brand-related terms will help designers, developers, and product managers design experiences that reflect an organization’s brand.

  • Brand Intention vs. Brand Interpretation

    Branding elements and interaction design guidelines can bridge the gap between how a company constructs its identity and how its customers experience it.

  • Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries

    Rent the Runway, Uber, and Airbnb challenge the traditional experiences of their industries through deep design, not just screen-UI design.

  • The Impact of Tone of Voice on Users' Brand Perception

    Different tones of voice have measurable impacts on users’ perceptions of a brand’s friendliness, trustworthiness, and desirability. Casual, conversational, and enthusiastic tones performed best.

  • The Four Dimensions of Tone of Voice

    A product's tone of voice communicates how an organization feels about its message. The tone of any piece of content can be analyzed along 4 dimensions: humor, formality, respectfulness, and enthusiasm.

  • The Impact of Interaction Design on Brand Perception

    Your interaction-design decisions have measurable effects on your users’ emotions and how they perceive your brand.

  • Centered Logos Hurt Website Navigation

    Getting back to the homepage is about 6 times harder when the logo is placed in the center of a page compared to when it’s in the top left corner.

  • Brand Is Experience in the Digital Age

    Brand is a perception of value resulting from the sum of a customer’s experiences, made up of visual, tonal, and behavioral brand components, often shaped by UX.

  • Trustworthiness in Web Design: 4 Credibility Factors

    The methods that people use to determine trustworthiness on the web have remained stable throughout the years, even with changing design trends.

  • Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall

    Users are 89% more likely to remember logos shown in the traditional top-left position than logos placed on the right.

  • Image-Focused Design: Is Bigger Better?

    Large images are visually appealing, but they can harm the overall user experience if they aren't appropriately prioritized.