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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Mobile User Onboarding: Examples From Three Awesome Apps
It is easy for me to simply list the do’s and don’ts of mobile user onboarding. Do indicate progress and flow length, don’t overwhelm the user. Don’t ask permissions right...
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How Scrolling Can Make (Or Break) Your User Experience
The smallest details can make or break your user experience (UX). Much of what we do on the internet is subconscious. We absentmindedly flip through screens, browse the web, and interact with...
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How to Design for Voice: 5 Tips to Get Started
Over the next ten years, a new, huge market will open for designers that until now have been extremely niche: Voice Designers. Voice design? How does it vary from conventional UX design? Actually,...
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The Evolution From Invisible Design Towards The Invisible Interface
Most of us are old enough to remember the days before internet ubiquity. My primary school self, for example, used a trusty Microsoft Encarta CD-ROM to help with homework projects – usually over the...
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UX Case Study: ESPN’s Fantasy App
In a blogosphere full of articles honing in on single, often granular components of user experience design, Codal’s UX Case Study series aims to examine UX from a holistic perspective, panning...
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Empathy And The Enterprise
Amid all the design tools, techniques, and data points, never forget that you are designing for real people. If you work in or around the design realm, chances are you will have heard the word...
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Positive Reinforcement In UX Design
Recently, I was asked to summarise UX design in just one word. It felt like an exercise in futility – I have always maintained that UX design is a complicated, sometimes convoluted, amalgam of...
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A Bad User Interface Is A Cranky Receptionist
You enter an office for the first time. The first thing that greets you is the view of a glowering receptionist, slumped deep into their chair and chewing gum brashly. You take a few hesitant steps...
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Touch Heatmaps: The Future Of Mobile App Usability Testing
Testing the usability of your mobile app in 2017 means going well above and beyond what is usually considered ‘best practices’. Opting for focus groups to test both during development and...
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The Fall Of The Feedback Widget, And What You Should Replace It With [Sponsored]
Customer sentiment is an important metric for any online product team to track. An overall negative sentiment likely means you’re hemorrhaging customers, forcing them to flee to a friendlier...
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UX Case Study: Duolingo
In a blogosphere full of articles honing in on single, often granular components of user experience design, Codal‘s UX Case Study aims to examine UX from a holistic perspective, panning the...
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Making The Most Of It: Hybrid App UX Design
As more businesses fulfil their consumer’s demand for the mobile presence, many corporate decision-makers find themselves posed with a choice between two popular options: the native mobile app, or...
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Mobile App Pop-Up Guidelines
Pop-ups, dialogues, those little boxes that appear on your screen, whatever you may call them, are not to be taken for granted. Although they are a relatively “small” element of your app,...
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What Goes Into The Cost Of UX Design
Not unlike design itself, the cost of a user experience designer can be a bit of an abstract concept. The business tangibles of UX work – timelines, milestones and costs are usually based on...
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The UX Design Process: A Beginner’s Guide to User Experience [Sponsored]
User experience, or UX, is an area of tech development that focuses on the quality of interactions between customers and the products they use. In addition to technical specifications, UX...
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10 Mobile-Friendly Web Design Features All Designers Should Know
Now, more than ever, users engage with brands and websites through mobile devices. Gone are the days when you only needed to focus on creating a visually appealing website for laptops or desktops....
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Do Not Confuse User Experience With Customer Experience
Customer experience (CX) is big business nowadays. According to Forrester, customers will pay 4.5 times more if the customer experience is good. What is more, they said that companies who provide...
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Website Redesign: Finding Your Ideal Schedule
Website redesign. Two words that can strike fear into any website manager’s heart. However, redesign does not have to be a major headache – or a drain on your company’s marketing...
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Why, How, And When To Use Walkthroughs To Enhance UX [Sponsored]
Have you ever played Go? The board is plain and straightforward, the objective of the game is self-explanatory and the rules of the game are very few and pretty logic. Nonetheless, the game is...
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UX Design Thinking From A Senior Citizen’s Perspective
Attracting senior citizens as part of your user-base was once deemed as being the last Internet frontier. However, this elusive scenario has since become reality as we have witnessed a constant...
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