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How to Build a UX Strategy
How a company interacts with end users impacts UX. A positive UX drives increased user engagement and retention, while a negative experience causes a company to fall behind its rivals in the global marketplace. In addition, a business’ services and products may affect UX, and ultimately, determine whether an end user continues to leverage a…
Measuring Your Return on Investment of User Experience
When it comes to a user’s unique needs and approach to interacting with a digital product, the overall quality of their experience is determined by their connection with the environment, ease of use, accessibility and the emotional impact the product provides. Understanding the importance of an accessible user interface, or UI, and a quality user…
Reviewing Instagram’s New User Interface
Instagram’s New UI Instagram’s new user interface may have violated the principle of least astonishment (POLA). So far, the popular, photo-sharing site has not suffered any serious consequences for daring to change their interface—at least for now. POLA is a concept found in programming and UI/UX claiming necessary features with profound astonishment factors may require…
Design Solutions for Cross-Platform Applications
With users accessing web-based applications from a growing diversity of platforms — including desktop computers, mobile devices and smart TVs — there’s a clear need for innovative multi-platform design solutions that put a user’s experience first. Ultimately, this is about more than just ensuring consistency across platforms. It’s about considering the environment a user will…
When It's Time to Update Your UX and UI
You’ve spent the time and money to develop a winning product or service, hire great staff and position your business for success. In many industries, web-based applications play a key role in your success — both in bringing your product to market and in allowing your team to access information and collaborate effectively. Like any…
Benefits of Online Point-of-Sale Systems
Both online and brick and mortar retailers can benefit from switching their aging point of sale (POS) systems to a modern, simplified cloud-based platform. If you’re considering making the jump, or if you’re interested in running a leaner, more integrated business, an online POS can help. Online POS Benefits Regardless of the specifics of your…
Adobe Project Comet: What You Need to Know
Project Comet is an upcoming cross-platform app from Adobe that allows developers to do everything from wireframing to prototyping their UX designs. Adobe has a rich history of providing robust applications which are often able to do more than they were originally intended for. A good example of this is Photoshop, which was designed originally…
Android 6.0 Marshmallow Features and Improvements
Android 6.0 Marshmallow is poised to take the mobile OS market by storm. As always, Google has implemented a number of useful features into the new OS which makes it more robust and functional than what has come before. Many of the improvements, in fact, work to address issues that users brought up with Lollipop….
UX & UI Design Trends 2015
The field of UX design, like any other design field, usually sees some drastic changes from year to year as the cultural zeitgeist changes with the times. What worked last year or the year before isn’t necessarily going to hold much water this year. 2015 is no different. There are a few trends that have…
What Google Polymer Means for You
The Story of Google Polymer Google Polymer has seen an overhaul recently, which changes the way that it performs and the way that it uses system resources. Polymer, at its core, is the equivalent of an SDK for the internet, which assists with web application development through the use of Web Components, a new standard….