UX Design - Think about it !
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The very first good look can attract your user to view your app one time but a better UI experience will make your user stick to your application, so why not think about it !
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UX Design - Think about it !
- 7. Why ?
- 8. Why UX matters ?
- 10. Usability is a necessary condition for survival
- 12. Hint…
- 13. What do you see ?
- 14. What do you want ?
- 15. Feedback…
- 16. How ?
- 17. Ask for username after the user has signed up
- 18. Require users to type their password only once
- 19. Auto Complete the country field
- 20. Allow users to allow to auto-fill their payment address from the shipping address
- 21. DON’T CHECK THE NEWSLETTER OPTION BY DEFAULT. OFFER A PREVIEW INSTEAD
- 22. Allow users to login with their email addresses
- 23. Dropdown login form Modal Box Log users without leaving the page
- 24. Allow users to login via Facebook, Twitter or OpenID
- 25. Allow users to login via Facebook, Twitter or OpenID…
- 26. Think about it…
- 27. References 1. http://www.slideshare.net/chiyaserena/ux-design-what- how-and-why 2. http://www.slideshare.net/jaxinteractive/what-is-user- experience-design 3. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/04/you- design-it-they-do-it/ 4. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/26/ga mification-ux-users-win-lose/ 5. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/24/role -design-kingdom-content/ 6. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/05/inn ovative-techniques-to-simplify-signups-and-logins/ 7. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/05/wh at-is-user-experience-design-overview-tools-and- resources/
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- The very first good look can attract your user to view your app one time but a better UI experience will make your user stick to your application, so why not think about it !
- Additionally, users have been accessing websites in an increasing number of ways: mobile devices, a vast landscape of browsers, different types of Internet connections.
- ENGAGE YOUR USERSIn Angry Birds you can earn badges for completing various tasks throughout the game. I don’t know about you, but I’ve played the same levels over and over again until I got three stars. We want to be best.Other than getting badges for ranking high, you also get badges for playing longer, hitting a certain number of pigs, etc.When I visit one of my local bakeries to buy bread, I get a stamp on a card. The next time I visit the bakery, I get another stamp. When I have 10 stamps, I get free bread. Simple but effective. I would never visit another bakery
- On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website’s information is hard to read or doesn’t answer users’ key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here? There’s no such thing as a user reading a website manual or otherwise spending much time trying to figure out an interface. There are plenty of other websites available; leaving is the first line of defense when users encounter a difficulty.
- LOCATION-BASED WEBSITESPopular games are often location-based — i.e. the location of the player affects the game. Can we benefit from this in Web and UX design? Heck, yeah!I live in Denmark. I recently visited Amazon’s US website and was greeted with this message:Amazon uses location to direct you to the store for your area.Amazon detects where I live and points me to Amazon UK. Checking my location may be a simple technical task, but it makes it feel almost as if they know me.
- Why did Twitter evolve beyond being a place where people just leave status updates? Part of it has to do with the tiny microcopy that was above the status update field. Originally it said “What are you doing?” and this of course led to people talking about their breakfast. After some time they changed it to “What’s happening?” which helped guide the people using the service to post about what is happening around them.
- Why was Digg being gamed for so long? Because the design encouraged it. Simple. Executives at Yahoo might sit around a table asking why users aren’t using its search engine? Does the design of the website look like it is meant for search or even encourage it? Do you think Google execs sit around a table asking why people don’t use its search engine when they hit its main page? The design of Pinterest encourages users to continually scroll down the page looking at more and more pins; it is designed to keep you on the website.
- I love getting feedback on the stuff that I write; yet my website has no comments section. Is it reasonable for me to wonder why people don’t leave feedback? I could tell people that there is a forum on the website where they can leave feedback, but that means they would have to register, get approved and then remember what they wanted to write. The website isn’t designed for instant feedback. When I didn’t have any social media widgets at the end of a post, sharing of articles dropped over 80%. It wasn’t fair for me to assume that people would remember to share something they liked or that if they were on the fence they would make an effort to do so. If I really wanted people to retweet what I write, I would have to guide them to doing so by putting a retweet widget at the end of everything. Maybe I could even add some text asking them to retweet if they like what they read.
- Sign-up forms typically ask users to create a name that is unique to the website. However, coming up with a unique user name that’s not taken could take trial and error and, thus, time. Instead of hassling people for a user name when they sign up, you might want to consider asking afterwards. This way, you won’t lose sign-ups from frustrated users, and you’ll prevent users from creating random and forgettable names just to satisfy the form’s requirements.
- Many sign-up forms ask users to type their password in two different fields. The reason is understandable. Forms mask passwords for security reasons, so that snoopers can’t see them. And to cut down on typographical mistakes and increase the chances of correct input, two separate entries are required.In reality, though, this allows for greater error, because it forces users to type more. They can’t see the characters they’re inputting, making it difficult to know whether they’re typing the right password each time.A more efficient approach would be to ask users to type their password in once, but then include a box they can check to unmask the password, so that they can check it. This option could reduce the number of text fields and decrease the work that users have to do to sign up.
- The conventional way for users to specify their country is to select it from a drop-down list. A more efficient way would be to use an auto-complete text field. Instead of making users scroll through an alphabetical list of every country in the world, the text field would allow users to select their country from a small subset of countries that match the letters they type. The user needs only to type a few letters to see their country in the menu.
- If a user is buying a product, they’ll have to submit payment and shipping information. Most of the time, the addresses will be the same, so let them auto-fill one from the other. You could include a link saying “Same as shipping information” in the payment section, and when clicked, it would repeat the shipping data in the payment fields.
- Most website owners pre-check the newsletter box, hoping to get more subscribers. Chances are, it will work. But a subscription is meaningless if the user has done so only because they have overlooked or misunderstood the option. If they’re not interested, they’ll unsubscribe sooner or later. Forcing them to subscribe won’t help you in the long run. And receiving a newsletter without having explicitly asked for it can turn users off.A more effective approach would be to make users want to subscribe by showing them a preview or excerpt of the newsletter. This way, they’ll know what they’re missing if they don’t subscribe. You’ll also sleep well knowing that users who subscribe have done so because they’re genuinely interested in your content.
- Remembering an email address is easier than remembering a user name. User names can be unwieldy, and people remember their email address because they use email all the time. Give users the option to log in with their email address as well as a user name. The flexibility could save them the time and headache of recovering the user name if they forget it.
- Logging in is a common task, and users will want to be able to log in from anywhere on your website. So, as soon as they do it, redirect them back to the current page. This will make logging in faster and allow users to get right back to their task.There are a couple of ways to make this happen: a drop-down box or a modal window.The drop-down box will open without taking users off the page. It takes up only a small part of the page, making it a fast and lightweight option.A modal window also keeps users on the current page, but it opens up at the center of the window, putting the focus entirely on the log-in form. This option gives you room to add supplemental information to the form.
- Nearly everyone has a Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account, and letting them log in with it brings big benefits. They can use your website almost instantly, without having to go through the sign-up process. Also, they won’t have to manage multiple user names and passwords across different websites.