Client-Centered Services By Tal Bloom Published: April 22, 2013 “Just as we ask our clients to focus on users when making design decisions for their Web site, shouldn’t we similarly focus on our clients when making service decisions for a project?” As UX professionals, we practice user-centered design—which means we stay focused on users and their needs when designing a Web site, product, or service for a client. To actually put this into practice, though, we need to convince our clients to follow our UX approach. Well, just as we ask our clients to focus on users when making design decisions for their Web site, shouldn’t we similarly focus on our clients when making service decisions for a project? Figure 1—Consider your client’s goals and user needs to create a usable design and useful content View the full-size image In this article, I’ll flesh out these ideas, but first, let’s take a look at a case study. Case Study: Cultural Roadblocks So, how did this realization affect my approach? Turn Up Your Warmth
Wireframes Magazine json The Four Waves of User-Centered Design In the fall of 1988, a small group of professionals from the technology industry gathered at Bentley College (now University) in Waltham, Mass., to discuss the topic of user advocacy and assistance. These gatherings were informal, simply a group of professionals with a shared passion for improving the quality of technology for the user. Eventually, at the urging of participants, these meetings were formalized into a seminar series and, not long after that, an Information Design Certificate program. Though the term user experience did not yet exist, it was clear to the program designers (myself included) that there was a need for this type of formal instruction given that few, if any, formal programs existed in the U.S. at the time. We quickly adopted a holistic view of the domain including the study of human behavior, design, research methods, management, and testing. While much has changed over the years, the core guiding principles of the program have remained constant: Conclusion
Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices Advertisement When designing a large website, especially one that contains a store, you may be required to design a system for ordering online, or a multi-step process of another sort. Walking users through this process by making it easy and intuitive is key to helping increase conversion rates. In this article we will look at various uses of progress trackers and see how they’ve been implemented, what they are doing well, and what they are not doing well. What are Progress Trackers? You may not be familiar with the term ‘progress tracker’, also called a ‘progress indicator’ — but chances are good that you have encountered one at one time or another. An example of a progress tracker at Game1 The Difference Between Progress Trackers and Breadcrumbs As we have detailed previously in Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices2, breadcrumbs are a way of enhancing navigation by revealing a user’s current location. Example of breadcrumbs at Coolspotters3 Uses of Progress Trackers 1. 2.
Algo de programacion web Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices Advertisement Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most popular manifestation of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of clickable buttons that when clicked, perform an action (e.g. "Buy this now!") How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? Best Practices for Effective Call to Action Buttons Designing call to action buttons into web interfaces requires some forethought and planning; it has to be part of your prototyping and information architecture processes in order for them to work well. Draw user attention with size In web pages, the size of an element relative to its surrounding elements indicates its importance: the larger the element is, the more important it is. Size of call to action button versus surrounding elements A web page may have multiple calls for action.
The Elements Of Navigation Advertisement When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. Even before you started to read this article, chances are you did because you either had the implicit goal of checking what’s new on Smashing Magazine, or had the explicit goal of finding information about “Navigation Design”. After a couple of seconds of scanning this article, and maybe reading parts of the introduction, you may have started to ask yourself whether the information that you’re consuming at the moment is actually relevant to you—the user. Unfortunately (and as certain as death and taxes), if users cannot find the information they are looking for, chances are they will abandon their track, never to return. Being the compassionate human being that I am, I’ll try to explain to you what this article is about, so you can make your choice either to continue reading, or not. Words, Words, Words “This might be a good start!” User-Testing Labels Another test is a Word Association3 game. What Is What