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Web Development. Web Development. 20 Free E-books For Web Designers. E-books are great way to learn more about web design. E-books can truly provide you a fountain of knowledge of information and there’s a lot to be learnt. The beauty of ebooks is that there short and insightful not as a long as a book but not as short as a blog post. This blog post we have collected a personal collection of well of thought out web design related ebooks, which can be downloaded and read all for free. If your a tablet owner i would certainly recommend putting them on your ebook to read. There’s not too many great ebooks currently out their which are available for free, you should certainly take advantages of this post and read one of the ebooks listed in the post. I hope you enjoy the blog post and we would love for you to share your favourite free ebook featured in are post, or recommend any good free ebooks which we may have missed out. 1. 2.

Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 15 Examples of Brilliant Website Homepage Design. Nine single-page ecommerce checkouts of varying quality. Ecommerce checkout design is something of an obsession for us here at Econsultancy because it’s an incredibly important part of the user journey. A well-designed checkout allows shoppers to complete their purchase quickly and conveniently, while a poor user-experience can cause frustration and basket abandonment.

In general site owners should aim to make the process as simple as possible, stripping out any unnecessary text fields to reduce friction and delays. Personally I’m a big fan of a one-page checkout as it takes a great deal of skill to strip the entire process down to the bare essentials. It also requires a certain level of bravery to be willing to put so much emphasis on the user experience ahead of data capture.

There is also evidence to suggest that it can create an uplift in conversions. For example: ProImpact found that a one-page checkout improved conversions by 13.39%.Xanthos improved a client’s conversion rate by 67% after implementing a one-page checkout. Wamli Honey Badger. 17 crucial web design trends for 2015. Please do not mistake me for some kind digital prognosticator, soothsayer guru, evangelist, swami, samurai or whatever risible term is currently popular in digital marketing circles.

I am but one writer who has spent the last year immersed (and only occasionally floundering) in previously unchartered waters in my first 12 months of writing for Econsultancy. This isn’t just a list of trends that I’ve noticed during my own research, but also ones discovered by my many venerable colleagues, various friends of the blog and passed on to me by Dan Barker or compiled throughout the year by Chris Lake. All of whose contributions to the following have been invaluable. (You can therefore read the above as, “if you pick on me I’ll get my older brothers on you.”)

Some of these predictions will be more obvious than others, but I’ve decided to err on the side of ‘likely’ rather than ‘wildly fanciful’. Anyway, with that massive list of caveats out of the way, let’s begin. Parallax scrolling for everybody. 15 deeply pleasing examples of mobile micro UX. Micro UX is one of our 17 crucial web design trends of 2015 and hopefully will only grow in importance as interactive web experiences continue to become more human and characterful.

Micro UX design is all about delighting the user by using simple innovative interactions that not only makes a task easier but also creates an engaging, humane experience that’s a pleasure to repeat. I looked at Micro UX for desktop in greater depth here - What is micro UX? 14 joyful examples, but now it’s time to turn attention to mobile devices, where arguably micro UX finds its most fitting place as user interactions go far beyond the mouse and keyboard.

This article could not have been written without the help of Little Big Details, a fantastic resource for all things micro UX. Virgin America Tiny little touches like ‘hey there’ and ‘nice name’ make for a very welcoming experience. You can choose an avatar for yourself and place it where you want to sit. Period Box Pinterest app StarWars.com MyFitnessPal Snapchat. Econsultancy. 15 deeply pleasing examples of mobile micro UX.