7 Tips for Creating User-Friendly Mobile Content By Julia Salem April 23, 2013 “By 2014, people will connect to the Internet more from their mobile devices than their desktop devices.” How will you make your mobile website and content more user-friendly? Check out these seven tips from Jessica Davis on Zemanta that will help you [...]
7 Tips for Creating User-Friendly Mobile Content
Posted in Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: html5, Mobile Design, Mobile UX, User Friendly, User-Friendly Content, User-Friendly Mobile Devices
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Incorporating User Testing Into Product Design
Incorporating User Testing Into Product Design By Julia Salem March 23, 2013 Jessica DuVerneay recently started an excellent series of posts on UserTesting.com about when, what and how to test your product. In the first part, Jessica discusses the life cycle of a project, testing during launch & assessment, testing during discovery, testing during user [...]
Posted in Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: project life cycle, User Experience, user research, user testing, UX, UX Testing, what is user testing
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Increase Your Conversion Rate with the 2013 Usability Testing Challenge
Increase Your Conversion Rate with the 2013 Usability Testing Challenge By Julia Salem February 22, 2013 UserTesting.com started the Usability-Testing Challenge earlier this month. This is a free 12-month plan that anyone can use to optimize their web presence. In the first month, the plan tells you to test your homepage branding by using a [...]
Posted in News, Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: 2013 Usability Testing Challenge, Conversion Rate, Usability, usability testing, usability tips, User Experience, user testing, UX, what is user testing
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Six Ways to Design a User Friendly Landing Page for QR Codes
Six Ways to Design a User Friendly Landing Page for QR Codes By Julia Salem February 15, 2013 QR codes can be a fun and creative way to get sales leads for your business, but it is important to keep effective design in mind. Roxanne Peterson wrote an article about this topic in WebExpedition18. In [...]
Posted in Media Commentary, Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: Landing Page, Mobile Design, Mobile UX, QR Code, Responsive Design, User Friendly
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Storyboarding While Designing Software
Storyboarding While Designing Software By Julia Salem February 14, 2013 Using storyboarding in software design can be “an effective and inexpensive way to capture, relate, and explore experiences in the design process.” Ambrose Little wrote an article in UX Magazine last week about why storyboarding could help your software design process. In the article, Little [...]
Posted in Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: Software Design, Storyboarding, storyboarding techniques, storyboarding tools, User Experience, UX, UX Magazine
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A New Approach to Information Architecture
A New Approach to Information Architecture By Julia Salem February 8, 2013 Susan Rits recently posted about her approach to good IA through the example of Let’s Lunch (a mobile app). “Good IA is akin to a good filing system or well organized term paper.” Read the full post on Project Eve. Follow us on [...]
Posted in Media Commentary, Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: IA, Information Architecture, User Experience
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UI vs UX: What’s the Difference?
UI vs UX: What’s the Difference? By Julia Salem February 6, 2013 This post from Dain Miller brings up an intriguing question. What IS the difference between UI and UX? According to Dain’s post, “UI is the saddle, the stirrups, and the reigns. UX is the feeling you get being able to ride the horse, [...]
Posted in Media Commentary, Optimal Business Processes | The post has tags: Interface Design, MailChimp, UI, ui design, User Experience, user interface, User Interface Design, UX
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Effectively Planning UX Design Projects
Effectively Planning UX Design Projects By Julia Salem February 4, 2013 “Planning user experience (UX) projects is a balancing act of getting the right amount of user input within the constraints of your project.” In this Smashing Magazine article, Jesmond Allen and James Chudley explain how to choose the right tools for effectively planning UX [...]
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UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design
UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design By Julia Salem January 29, 2013 Codrops blog has a great post from Kayla Knight that discusses guidelines and tips to consider when creating a friendly and responsive website design. Check out the full post on Codrops blog. Follow us on Twitter @OxfordTech and on Facebook for more responsive [...]
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How to Provide Tablet Optimized UX
How to Provide Tablet Optimized UX By Julia Salem February 19, 2013 According to David Moth’s article in Econsultancy, “tablets are now finally being recognised as an entirely distinct category” outside of mobile or desktop devices. Consequently, businesses must deliver a different type of experience to tablet customers. Moth’s article discusses seven techniques for providing [...]