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How To Create Your Own Front-End Website Testing Plan – Smashing Magazine

How To Create Your Own Front-End Website Testing Plan – Smashing Magazine So, your designers and developers have created a fantastic front-end design, which the client is delighted with, and your job now is to test it. Your heart begins to sink: Think of all the browsers, all the devices and all of these web […]

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Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed | Smashing UX Design

Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed | Smashing UX Design A lot of designers seem to be talking about user experience (UX) these days. We’re supposed to delight our users, even provide them with magic, so that they love our websites, apps and start-ups. User experience is a very blurry concept. Consequently, many people use the term incorrectly. Furthermore, many […]

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Improving Your Website Usability Tests | Smashing UX Design

Improving Your Website Usability Tests | Smashing UX Design In one of the first usability tests I ever did, I met a lovely old lady who could not use a mouse. She kept lifting it in the air and pointing at the screen, speaking words of encouragement to the cursor. At the end of the […]

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The Basics of Great UX | Webdesigntuts

The Basics of Great UX | Webdesigntuts This entry is part 1 of 6 in the UX Foundations Session – Show AllNext » The Basics of Great UX A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design Crafting the Experience of User Interface Messages Applying Fitts’ Law To Mobile Interface Design The Psychology of Content Design […]

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Tips For A Finely Crafted Website | Smashing UX Design

Tips For A Finely Crafted Website | Smashing UX Design Good Web designers know what many others might not realize: that creating a truly beautiful website requires care, time and craft. And similar to how a craftsperson molds their creation by combining raw materials, skill and unwavering focus on the vision, a beautiful design is […]

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3 Quick Ways to Show Attention to Detail in Web Design | Design Shack

3 Quick Ways to Show Attention to Detail in Web Design | Design Shack With today’s current design trends I’m of the view that attention to detail is perhaps the most important part of any design, be it web or print. In this article, I’m going to exhibit a few examples of designs on the […]

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Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design | Webdesigntuts

Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design | Webdesigntuts Personas have long been integrated with UX documentation. They help us create fictional users, representative of our real users, which we can reference throughout our creative process to inform and validate our design and UX. Let’s examine how we set up a persona and then utilize […]

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You Design It, They Do It

You Design It, They Do It What if someone came to you and said, “I’ve designed this great website, but people don’t stay on it. Why?” How would you respond? Would you ask them whether they have done extensive A/B testing? Would you recommend testing the usability of the website?

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Watch This Ingenious UI Idea, For Dragging Files From Your Phone To Computer

Watch This Ingenious UI Idea, For Dragging Files From Your Phone To Computer THIS CONCEPT BY ISHAC BERTRAN IS SO SIMPLE AND CLEVER THAT YOU WONDER WHY IT DOESN’T EXIST ALREADY.

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UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter

UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter