roi Articles & Videos

  • Aligning UX Metrics with Organizational Goals: A Workshop Guide

    UX teams often track the wrong metrics or too many metrics. This workshop aligns UX measurement with organizational goals to show impact that truly matters.

  • Should You Build a Smartwatch App?

    Applications native to smartwatch operating systems get used the most. Just because a new smartwatch app could offer basic functionality, it does not mean that users will find it valuable.

  • Quantitative UX: Glossary

    Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to quantitative user studies.

  • Antipersonas: What, How, Who, and Why?

    Antipersonas help anticipate how products can be misused in ways that can harm users and the business.

  • Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking Over Time

    On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.

  • Three Myths About Calculating the ROI of UX

    Many teams overthink return-on-investment calculations for UX work. Treat these calculations as a way to estimate the strategic value of design.

  • Annoying Online Ads Do Cost Business

    Increased advertising caused a 2.8% drop in use of an Internet service. The full magnitude of the lost business was only clear after a full year.

  • A 100-Year View of User Experience

    The UX profession has grown substantially since 1950 everywhere in the world. Even so, the expected growth until 2050 will dwarf anything we’ve seen so far.

  • QA & UX

    Quality assurance impacts the user experience: when things don’t work, users question their understanding and develop superstitions and inefficient workarounds.

  • How Many Test Users in a Usability Study?

    The answer is 5, except when it's not. Most arguments for using more test participants are wrong, but some tests should be bigger and some smaller.

  • Discount Usability: 20 Years

    Simple user testing with 5 participants, paper prototyping, and heuristic evaluation offer a cheap, fast, and early focus on usability, as well as many rounds of iterative design.

  • Usability ROI Declining, But Still Strong

    The average business metrics improvement after a usability redesign is now 83%. This is substantially less than 6 years ago, but ROI remains high because usability is still cheap relative to gains.

  • High-Cost Usability Sometimes Makes Sense

    Computing the net present value (NPV) lets you estimate the most profitable level of usability investment. For big projects, expensive usability can pay off.

  • 10 High-Profit Redesign Priorities

    Several usability findings lead directly to higher sales and increased customer loyalty. These design tactics should be your first priority when updating your website.

  • Do Government Agencies and Non-Profits Get ROI From Usability?

    Although the gains don't fall into traditional profit columns, there are clear arguments for improving usability of non-commercial websites and intranets. In one example, a state agency could get an ROI of 22,000% by fixing a basic usability problem.

  • Return on Investment for Usability

    Development projects should spend 10% of their budget on usability. Following a usability redesign, websites increase desired metrics by 135% on average; intranets improve slightly less.

  • Cost of User Testing a Website

    Across 50 teams, the average time needed for their first usability test of a website was 39 hours. The average site had 11 usability catastrophes that prevented users from completing their tasks.