Designing a good signup form is tricky. UX design does matter. To improve UX, the designer needs to put themselves in the user’s shoes. Make your form clear from the start, with visible labels placed outside of empty form fields. There’s always room for improvement. In this article, Kate Sipkina & Olga Ratinova will show you how to improve your contact forms — those crucial elements before users make a purchase or subscribe to a newsletter.
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As the spotlight has focused on the potential of design to transform businesses, we’ve seen a growing need for designers across a wider range of specializations. The number and types of roles have increased and, as UX continues to become a sought-after business differentiator, these roles will continue to diversify. What do you look out for when hiring team members? In this article, Christopher Murphy outlines how to go about building a UX team, which attributes to look out for when hiring, and he will suggest some avenues you can explore to find team members.
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Marketing is not about guessing what your customers want; it’s about finding it yourself and offering them that one thing they need. Sometimes, you simply want to know what makes your page great in terms of design, layout and content structure. Unlike Google Analytics, which works with numbers and statistics, the heatmaps show you the exact spots that receive the most engagement on a given page. In this article, Adelina Țucă will show you why they’re so efficient for your marketing goals and how they can be integrated with your WordPress site. Knowing what your users’ actions are when they land on your web pages could be something truly fascinating, and you can learn a lot from it.
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The nomadic lifestyle is not right for everyone, but the only way to know for sure is to try. If you can afford to take the risk, go for it. ? It might sound like a dream, but all that glitters is not gold, and it might not be the right choice for you. In this article, Javier Cuello will share some insights from his four years of travel and work that hopefully will be useful for anyone willing to try a nomadic lifestyle, too. Please note, however, that this is not going to be a “how to” guide. Instead, Javier will share some insights from his personal experience.
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Whether you’re building a website or an application, at heart you are designing for users and, as such, it’s important to consider these users at the center of a customer-focused ecosystem. It’s important to consider UX strategy in a holistic manner. Over the last few years, we have seen designers move up the chain of command and, thankfully, we are starting to see designers occupy senior roles within organizations. In this article, Christopher Murphy explains how design impacts beyond the world of screens as part of a wider strategy.
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Developers and designers need to initiate a conversation about the ethics of web design, i.e. how do we define and measure goodness and rightness in the digital realm? It’s important to discuss responsibilities, decisions, and consequences. Even small and seemingly insignificant decisions can have enormous implications, and ethics can help ensure the longevity of our designs and help us carve paths to better futures for everyone. It’s about time that we, the people who build the web, initiate a conversation about where we are and where we want to go. It is time we talk about the ethics of web design.
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Emails have transformed from being an ordinary text-based personal communication tool into a future-proof marketing channel. How can we create email marketing campaigns that convert? Well, one of the most important things to keep in mind is to create a good user experience so that subscribers look forward to receiving your emails. In this article, Jaymin Bhuptani will show you the best practices to follow for all email clients, as well as advanced techniques you can include for email clients that support interactive elements.
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Linking JavaScript functionality to the DOM can be a repetitive and tedious task. In this article, Rik Schennink explains how ConditionerJS can help make websites more flexible and user-oriented. Step-by-step he’ll improve this logic, and finally, he’ll make a 1 Kilobyte jump to replacing it with Conditioner. By combining all of the following tiny changes, you can speed up page load time and more closely match your functionality to each different context. This will result in improved user experience and as a bonus improve our developer experience as well.
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After defining your project, you need to test how it will work before you begin to develop it. It is possible to represent the interactivity of an app before its development, and this gives developers a global vision of an app’s functioning, user behavior and steps to afford. There are many ways to design and create an app’s look. In this article, Manuela Langella will show you how to transfer an app’s design from Photoshop to XD, and how to work on it and having fun while prototyping.
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Software developers in the UK need to better understand how copyright laws may affect their work so that they don’t miss out on opportunities to protect their work and to avoid infringing on the work of another. So, where do we start? In this article, Kimberly Bond will provide information about one type of IP law, copyright law, for software developers who live or work in the United Kingdom. She will discuss the definition of copyright law, the source of UK copyright law, and how it applies to technological works.
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