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Depositphotos – Buying and Selling Stock Images Made Easy

Stock images – love them or hate them, they are very often a must for any designer – whether for graphic design, web design or print design. The reason is simple – they can save a lot of time and...

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Lootback – Get Cash Back When You Buy Web Design Stuff

Love them or hate them, every designer needs to purchase themes, stock photographs, vectors or videos at some point in their life. Indeed, these ready-made goodies offer a cost-effective and...

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How Great UX Can Help Your Email Marketing

Aren’t UX and Email Marketing quite different from each other? How does one affect the other? Let’s begin with the fundamentals… UX (short for User Experience) has gained a lot of traction over the...

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Marrying User-Centered Design with the Agile Software Development Process: 7...

The Agile methodology has taken the software development world by storm over the last two decades, and with good reason. The focus on iterative and incremental development, cross-functional teams,...

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Open Data: Blurring The Lines Between The Real And Virtual Worlds

Last week, my six-year-old daughter and I were leafing through a magazine when suddenly, excited to see a page full of colorful tea party imagery, she did her usual iPad pinch-to-zoom gesture...

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30 Useful User Experience (UX) Tools

With the growing access to online services, websites and web applications have developed to become increasingly complex. If you are reading this article, the chances are you use the Internet not only...

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UX Diary Part 1 – On The Front Line

Dear Diary, Four years ago I came across an article about User Experience (UX). Little did I know that this would spark an adventure that would flip my career upside down and lead to a vigorous habit...

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How Storytelling Makes your Brand a Big Boy

Philip Pullman had quoted: “Stories are the things we need the most in the world, after nourishment, shelter and companionship.” Storytelling is the knack of getting audiences to listen to your...

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UX Diary Part 2 – A Seat At The Table

Dear Diary, “How do I get my organization to support my efforts for better UX?” This is a question I face, day in and day out. And I am sure that other UX enthusiasts do too. It can be a...

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UX Diary Part 3 – Never Skip A Test

Dear Diary, One of the most mortifying things that I recently faced in my work, is reaching out too far. This rushed, unfocused pursuit of doing it all at once is a trait that is particularly...

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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Ads And Their Sole Redemption

1. Lust Consumers click ads to seek solutions. Remind readers you understand the problem by echoing their concerns rather than covet advocacy and subsequent account registry. This brand’s ad is a...

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Content Marketing: Selling To The Digital World

Having content on a site may seem to be not too much of a big deal, but you would agree to the fact that if there is no quality content on a site it can cut its story short. If you can understand the...

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UX Diary Part 4 – It’s A Jungle Out There

Dear Diary, I love working on developing new projects, and I firmly believe that there is a lot to be gained by involving “the UX guys” in from the earliest stages of product development....

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The Yo! Mobile Application – Is It A Summer Fad, Or Does It Have An Actual...

People often say that there’s an app for everything – and Yo! could be the very proof of that statement. Its single function is to allow users to send ‘Yo’ in the form of a simple text message....

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UX Diary Part 5 – Making Good Products Great

A couple of years ago, InVision raised 1.5 m in a round of funding. Today it is undoubtedly one of the leading design and prototyping collaboration tool. When Google was born, it wasn’t the...

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ROI Of Usability

We all know that investing in usability is essential for creating a simple and intuitive experience for the customer. But some may not consider this enough to justify the costs associated with...

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Redesign Your Website For Better UX

Like everything in life, the online world is in constant flux. As technology advances, new trends catch on and old ones fall by the wayside. Websites have to change in order to keep up with user...

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Enhancing Your Customer Service With UX in Mind: A First Hand Account

Joe Smalley, an associate of mine, runs his own small business. It functions primarily online but serves clients in various cities across the country. We have already written about the importance of...

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5 Ways to Improve Your Email Marketing Strategy

With all of the marketing options available via social media these days – everything from sponsored posts to autoplay video ads – you might think that good old email marketing is obsolete or at least...

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Eye Tracking: What Is It For And When To Use It

Imagine a usability test in which John, the test participant, attempts to buy a bicycle. On the homepage John quickly finds the “bicycles” link, but on the next page he hesitates. “I wasn’t sure...

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