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Business Strategies UX Designers Should Know

  • August 17, 2022

In the field of design, you not only need technical skills to succeed, but also business prowess. As the number of people using the Internet increases, the value of UX designers increases. Multiple companies are seeking UX designers to help them gain a competitive edge in their market.

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Boost 2020 Profit: E-commerce Experience Optimization

  • November 21, 2019

User-friendly Experience + Simplified Buying Journey = More Sales

Online businesses in 2020 are forced to compete with large online and big box retailers, including Amazon, Wayfair, and brick-and-mortar stores like Walmart and Best Buy. In order to compete, e-commerce websites need to have a great user-experience (UX) and a streamlined buying process. Complicated checkout systems, over-cluttered product pages, and a lack of mobile optimization can severely inhibit a retailer from competing with large companies that have large, dedicated user-experience teams.

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What is Card Sorting?

  • October 16, 2017

Card Sorting is a method used to help design or evaluate the Information Architecture (IA) of a system. In a card sorting session, participants organize topics into categories that make sense to them and they may also help you label these groups. To conduct a card sort, you can use actual cards, pieces of paper, or one of several online card-sorting software tools. 

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Want An Easy Way to Spy on Your Competition?

  • May 26, 2017

At Situated Research, we help our clients to conduct competitive website assessments so our clients can stay ahead of their industry. A Competitive Website Assessment makes it easy to spy on your competition. You’ll be able to see things like how many indexed pages, inbound links, and social media followers they have, and how your traffic rank compares to theirs. 

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Designing Interfaces That Are Effective

  • April 25, 2017

By combining eye tracking with other usability studies, you can determine where your users look, for how long, and why. This can help you design interfaces that are effective at directing user attention to important things in the user interface. 

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Tips on Improving Your Website’s User Experience, Part 2

  • February 2, 2017

Last week we published an article on the first five tips on improving your website’s user experience. Today we want to continue with that same theme and provide the final five tips.

This list is a starting point to providing the user experience that you want to give your customers online. Remember, if users come to your website and have trouble finding information or ordering a product, they will often leave your website and you will lose their business. 

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Tips on Improving Your Website’s User Experience, Part 1

  • January 26, 2017

Websites are a representation of your business and your products or services offered. That is why it is so important to give your users a great experience no matter how they interact with your business.

Our team has come up with ten usability guidelines for web developers and business owners to follow. This list is a starting point to providing the user experience that you want to give your customers online.

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Tips on Creating an Awesome Dashboard User Experience

  • September 28, 2016

Dashboard design is an art and takes some time to master. The challenge is to communicate analytics in a straightforward way, while allowing users to drill down into the specifics. It is about avoiding clutter, about catering for personalization, and about the prioritization of the right metrics. Dashboard design is a tricky science and to create that one design that is awesome takes some time and talent. 

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