Want satisfaction guaranteed? Add user experience to the design process
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Podcast
User experience tips from Soasta expert
Keeping the user experience in mind while designing takes extra preparation. Expert Tammy Everts explains why some obvious UX mistakes continue to be repeated and be a problem. Listen Now
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Article
Nineteen fixes for slow loading webpages
What can you do to speed bloated, slow-to-load Web pages? Expert Tammy Everts suggests 19 different ways to fix the problem. Read Now
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Article
How to collaborate with UX and UI design
Designing a user experience and coding the interface are different disciplines that depend on each other for success. Collaboration and a new generation of tools are critical. Read Now
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Article
Mobile app UI design helps hearts
Cardiovascular healthcare services provider Boston Heart Diagnostics turns to UX design and UI development on a Microsoft stack to make its cloud apps addictive to patients. Read Now
Editor's note
Just when you were starting to get comfortable with the speed and demands of modern application development, get ready for another shake up. It's all about the user now. Does the user interface work? How is the user experience? Is it truly easy to use? The answers to those questions can directly affect the bottom line.
So busy developers and testers, if a UI or UX expert hasn't been working with you on your user experience design process, or development and test processes, he or she will be soon. And it will be a completely different experience than you've likely ever had.
For starters, you'll be adopting a different mindset and probably actually meeting with -- or observing -- real users to see how they interact with your application. Also, you'll need to "sweat the small stuff," as in the UX world, the devil really is in the details. This will fundamentally change your design process, as you'll be picturing that user so early and so often. And for those of you employing an Agile development methodology, well, that can be tricky, but it can be done. And finally testers, this will mean big changes for you as well. How do you test something with no obvious user interface?
The UX and UI juggernaut is coming, and there's no way to hide from it. Keep reading for advice, support, product picks, strategies and more. Do it right, and it will be the end of click aways and unhappy users.
1UX and UI design testing
The user experience design process involves a different set of software testing skills. Experts share testing challenges, ideas and tips for moving into this new realm of UI and UX testing.
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Article
How drunk user testing changed UX research
Giving a drunken UI designer a user test changed HubSpot's UX research and UI design practices. The results were stunning, said UX designer Austin Knight at the Fluent Conference. Read Now
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Article
How are UX testing and software testing different?
UX testing is distinct from software product testing. Expert Gerie Owen explains how to bring the two sides closer together. Read Now
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Article
Focus on UX research with Indiegogo
Indiegogo UX pro Aga Bojko prioritizes her company's users and highlights the importance of user experience and understanding how to keep consumers satisfied. Read Now