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- 7 usability guidelines for websites on mobile devices
- Usability and page design for websites on mobile phones is very different to that of PCs. These essential mobile usability guidelines will help ensure your site works well for mobile visitors.
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- Designing visualisations: Applying user-centered guidelines
- Visualisations are created by translating data of any form into pictures. Find out exactly how you can provide fancy-looking visualisations that are actually usable and useful to your users.
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- Six mistakes to avoid in mobile usability
- Looking to reach your customers through the mobile, but not sure of the best way to go about it. This article looks at some of the most common mistakes that people make when they are giving their business a mobile presence.
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- 6-step process for planning a user test
- Preparing for usability testing requires a surprisingly large amount of planning. Here are the 6 key steps you should go through to get ready.
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- Making an impact: Measuring web design effectiveness
- Want to build a great website incorporating aesthetic design and usability? Find out what to measure to help ensure your site has great aesthetics, usability and desirability.
- Topic: User-centered design
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- User experience over usability
- A good experience is essential for a customer to return and good site usability has several advantages. This article looks at the big picture and the difference in focus between usability and user experience.
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- 7 tips for designing for older users
- Looking to design a website for older users? Read through these top tips and ensure your site is as effective as possible.
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- Website aesthetics - what has it got to do with usability?
- How we choose what to buy is a key question that should be asked when designing an ecommerce website. Find out the importance of and relationship between aesthetics and usability.
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- Improving mobile internet usability
- Even in these relatively advanced times, there's a whole set of problems faced by mobile users when it comes to accessing the Internet. Read about the importance of mobile usability.
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- Online videos: Engaging your users
- Online video is a great way to attract users to your site, but you must make the user experience of your video content a priority - find out all you need to know.
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- 5 ways to improve online cross- & up-selling
- Find out how to increase cross-selling and up-selling on your website. Doing so will help you sell more items and keep customers coming back to your site again and again.
- Topic: Persuasion & sales
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- Usability & security: Unlikely bedfellows?
- With people having to remember more and more usernames, passwords and PINs, it's crucial that any online security offers the best possible usability. Find out how you can help customers remember their passwords and continue using your website in the long-term.
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- Online persuasion - 7 ways to persuade people to buy
- Persuading people to do what you want them to do on your website isn't as hard as you think. Read through these top tips and so your online conversion rates can soar!
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- Customisable websites - the definitive guide
- Customisable websites have recently become more and more popular - get the lowdown on when and why you should and shouldn't allow users to change pages on your website.
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- Designing online social networks: The theories of social groups
- It's important to fully understand the theories of social groups, before designing online social networks - find out all you need to know!
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- Ecommerce imagery: Persuading with pictures
- The use of effective images to sell online is crucial. Read through these essential guidelines and find out how to use images to increase conversion rates.
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- How to embed usability & UCD internally
- Integrating usability into any organisation can be a difficult and isolating experience. Get the lowdown on how to achieve this within your organisation.
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- 10 ways to orientate users on your site
- Follow these top tips and make sure site visitors know where they are on your site at all times.
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- Eye tracking: Eye candy vs. I can do
- Find out the pros and cons of eye tracking, showing you when you should and perhaps shouldn't use it.
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- Split A/B testing
- Split A/B testing is ideal for testing two web page designs to find out which is the best. Find out how A/B testing works and when to use it.
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- Filter & sort: Improving ecommerce product findability
- Filtering and sorting are essential for helping users find the products they're looking for. Find out how to make best use of this essential functionality.
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- Learning difficulties and web accessibility
- Web accessibility for those with learning difficulties can prevent some unique challenges - find out why and what you should be doing.
- Topic: Web accessibility
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- Wikiasari: The convergence of usability and SEO
- Wikiasari's new search engine could change the way search rankings are formulated - find out what this means for your website.
- Topic: Online marketing
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- Expert usability review vs. usability testing
- Article outlining the difference between the two usability evaluation methods: The expert usability review and usability testing.
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- Innovative user interface design
- More and more websites are developing innovative user interface designs. Check out some of our favourites and see what new ideas you can glean!
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- Intranet usability guidelines
- Read through these intranet usability guidelines and discover how to improve employee productivity and ease of information-retrieval.
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- Mobile & handheld usability testing - why it matters
- Mobile and handheld usability testing is crucial to your business - find out why and what you need to do for this unique medium.
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- Usability testing with children
- Usability testing with children can prevent some unique challenges - find out what exactly these are and what you need to do.
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- User-centered design (UCD) - 6 methods
- Learn all about user-centered design, the methods available to you, and how and when they should be employed.
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- 8 guidelines for usability testing
- Eight essential guidelines for usability testing, helping you to plan, run and analyse usability tests.
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- Usability for older web users
- The number of older web users is growing at a dramatic rate. Find out how to make your website easy to use for this lucrative market.
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- How to improve your site search (...or 'looking for jamie oliver')
- Site search engines should always allow for common user errors. By taking these errors into account, users won't leave your site because the search function isn't showing them what you're looking for.
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- The secret benefit of search engine optimisation: Increased usability
- How a website optimised for search engines also improves its usability.
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- The seven deadly sins of web design
- Read about the seven deadliest web design sins from a recent survey, and what it means for your website.
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- Everyday usability
- Something as simple as taking a new bus journey to work can provide you with valuable usability lessons. Sound strange? Read on for more...
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- Content & usability: Writing for the web
- Writing for the web is totally different to writing for printed matter - find out how to write content for this medium with these eight guidelines.
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- Tell me what you do!
- Explaining what you actually do is the first thing your website should do, but many sites forget this most basic of information. Find out how to do this effectively and avoid leaving your site visitors in the dark.
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- Why track your visitor's behaviour?
- Understanding what your visitors actually do on your website is an essential part of usability.
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- Link popularity - who should you link to
- How to increase your link popularity by deciding who to link to.
- Topic: Online marketing
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- Ten ways to improve the usability of your ecommerce site
- Here are ten ways to improve the usability of your ecommerce site, so that you can maximise your conversion rate and help convert the contents of users' shopping baskets into orders.
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- Beware of opening links in a new window
- Find out why opening a link in a new window is not generally a good idea.
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- Effective site navigation
- There's not much point in getting to the top of the search engines if people can't find what they're looking for once they get to your website.
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- Ten ways to speed up the download time of your web pages
- Follow this advice and you could shave off up to 90% of your page file sizes.
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- The secret benefit of web accessibility part 1: Increased usability
- Popular article outlining how a website optimised for accessibility also improves its usability.
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- Writing effective link text
- Six pointers for writing more effective hypertext link text.
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- Ten usability blunders of the big players
- Usability evaluation of ten of the most popular websites on the Internet.
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- You had me at the search engine
- Follow this advice and your site users will be able to find the information you want them to find.
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- Beyond web usability: Web credibility
- Find out why usability will no longer give you the edge. Make way for web credibility.
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- Planning a usable website: A three-step guide
- Your website should be focused around your users' needs - find out how.
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- Eight web usability killers
- Read this article to check that your website isn't sending its visitors away.
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- Improve the readability of your web page
- Follow this advice and your site users will be able to find the information you want them to find.
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- Web usability: The basics
- Learn the all-important web usability basics with these tips and guidelines.
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- SEO without usability - an exercise in futility
- There's not much point in getting to the top of the search engines if people can't find what they're looking for once they get to your website.
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