Usability Geek
Usability Geek is a Usability & User Experience (UX) blog that provides practical and useful information. Our readership comes from various fields including those of Usability, User Experience, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information Architecture (IA).
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3 Apps With Great Search UX: Here Is What You Can Learn From Them
When was the last time you literally had to stop for a second (or a few) to think about how to use an app or a specific feature? Exactly. You see, most of the popular apps we use on a daily basis...
Categories: Web Standards
Push Notifications – Nifty or Nuisance?
Push notifications are a contested issue in the UX design community. For marketers, they are a great way to get users back into your app, give them a gentle reminder or send them your latest...
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UX Design Tips To Put Your Best Footer Forward
Terrible puns aside, a website’s footer contributes much more to the user’s experience than most realise. Usually demoted to a last-minute afterthought in the design process, many web...
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Streamlining UX Across Multiple Platforms
With the rising dominance of mobile devices, it has become crucial to design your website to perform effectively on different screens and platforms. Although numerous businesses have invested in...
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What HQ Trivia Can Teach Us About UX
Dear reader, I am sad to report that I have been dragged back in. At first, I had dismissed it as a fad, another Flappy Bird or Trivia Crack. Then, after tentatively dipping my toe in its waters, I...
Categories: Web Standards
The UX Logout Lapse
The logout experience is oft-overlooked in our increasingly logged in lives. Typically (and perhaps understandably), greater UX focus is placed on getting users in than ushering them out....
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The 3 Big Differences Between UX And UI Design
The debates over the definitions of UX and UI have been going on for almost as long as the terms have been around. UX stands for User Experience, and UI stands for User Interface. Clear as mud? That...
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UX Case Study: Acorns Mobile App
Whenever it is time to pick the next subject for Codal and UsabilityGeek’s long-running UX Case Study series, I find myself searching in the same places. I aimlessly swipe through the App...
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6 Navigation Design Mistakes, And 3 Apps That Do It Right
Apps are like little worlds of their own. They hold mountains of features dotted with microinteractions, oceans of data, and cities of users with their creations and contributions. App designers...
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UX Case Study: Lumosity Mobile App
Nobody can critique a user experience quite like a UX designer, but video game enthusiasts certainly get close. After all, game designers are a specialised breed of UXer, one with the unique...
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Live Chat Software: The Quick & Dirty UX 101
Live chat has become an almost ubiquitous part of our web browsing. Most modern websites now come with that familiar chat button splashed up-front on the bottom of their pages – offering an...
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Dashboard Design User Experience Guidelines
Systems are becoming more integrated and able to relay back qualitative, and more often quantitative, data at various degrees of frequency and complexity. In this scenario, information visualisation...
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Write A UX Proposal: How-To Guide
User Experience design is big business, and there is money to be made. In fact, Andrew Kucheriavy reports in Forbes that on average, the return on investment for user experience is 9,900%. In...
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5 Ways To Integrate Motion Into Web Design
The first animated movie created in 1906 was a revolutionary step forward in storytelling. Every year, the technology behind motion in storytelling grows more impressive, and the same will remain...
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Information On Different Types Of People For Graphic Communication, Website And Information Designers
You are not the only one using your designs. Every day we use graphic communication design from reading letters which have come through the post, or the newspaper in the morning, to reading and using...
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People Who Are Crucial To Your Success As A UX Designer
More and more companies realise that seamless user experience is key to successful branding. UX is no longer the sole domain of designers. Instead, it is a company-wide concern. The truth is, it...
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UX Case Study: Talkspace Mobile App
From all the digital innovations we are looking forward to seeing advance in 2018, perhaps none are more critical than telemedicine. Defined as the administration of critical medical services through...
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Quantitative And Qualitative Analytics: The Perfect Data Power Couple
February is here and love is in the air. A new couple has made things “Facebook Official”, and I just cannot contain my excitement. They are setting the bar so high regarding commitment...
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Brand And Experience
Strong experience is an important, often key factor to the success of an endeavour like a start-up or launching a new service or brand. People walk away from an interaction with a company that offers...
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UX Case Study: Zocdoc Mobile App
Have you heard the big news? Three of the biggest names in the business — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan, have announced a joint effort to form a new kind of healthcare company for their...
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