UX Guidelines for Ecommerce Product Pages

Customers shopping online rely on product pages to decide what to buy. Help them by answering questions, enabling comparison, providing reviews, and facilitating the purchase process.

Readability Formulas: 7 Reasons to Avoid Them and What to Do Instead :: UXmatters

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Front-End Performance Checklist 2021 (PDF, Apple Pages, MS Word) — Smashing Magazine

Let’s make 2021... fast! An annual front-end performance checklist, with everything you need to know to create fast experiences on the web today, from metrics to tooling and CSS/JavaScript techniques.

How to Create Better Alerts and Symbols in Your Designs :: UXmatters

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Designing for Progressive Disclosure :: UXmatters

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Split Buttons: Definition

A split button is a dual-function menu button that offers a default action as well as the possibility of choosing a different action by selecting from a set of alternatives.

Molding Yourself into a Leader, Part 1 :: UXmatters

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Designing Card-Based User Interfaces — Smashing Magazine

Today, people seek out information quickly, and cards serve it up well, regardless of device. Most of you probably have a better understanding why card-style design is so popular and will continue to increase in popularity. This trend won’t end anytime soon. Cards are here to…

What Parallax Lacks

Parallax-scrolling effects add visual interest, but they make content slow to load or hard to read. Consider if the benefits are worth the cost.

Great Wireframe Examples

yEd Graph Editor

yEd is a free desktop application to quickly create, import, edit, and automatically arrange diagrams. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Unix/Linux.

Cognitive Maps, Mind Maps, and Concept Maps: Definitions

Cognitive maps, concept maps, and mind maps are diagramming techniques that can be utilized throughout the UX process to visualize knowledge and surface relationships among concepts.

Book Review: The Lean Product Playbook :: UXmatters

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7 Ecommerce UX Tips That Drive Sales :: UXmatters

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Different Information-Seeking Tasks: Behavior Patterns and User Expectations

Fact-finding tasks were less memorable, while complex research-based tasks required more effort from users. Top user expectations for each task type varied.

'The most effective technology is technology that no one sees': Lowe's CEO

Coming out of a banner year, Marvin Ellison discusses how initiatives put in place years ago contributed to the retailer's success.

Design Principles: Space And The Figure-Ground Relationship — Smashing Magazine

Design is an arrangement of both shapes and space. Learn to see the shapes that space forms and how space communicates. This is second part of a series on design principles for beginners. The first part covered an introduction to gestalt; today Steven Bradley will build on those…

Design Principles – An Introduction to Visual Hierarchy | Toptal®

The theory of visual hierarchy is different from its practical application. More advanced concepts of visual perception are worth exploring because their mastery is key for great visual design. #ui #ux #design

Usability Testing 101

UX researchers use this popular observational methodology to uncover problems and opportunities in designs.

10 Ways to Use Exit-Intent Popups for Good

Exit intent popups can provide a good customer experience and offer benefits to users who are about to leave a website.

Storybook Tutorials

Learn how to develop UIs with components and design systems. Our in-depth frontend guides are created by Storybook maintainers and peer-reviewed by the open source community.

The User Experience of Public Bathrooms [APRIL FOOLS]

Public restrooms are plagued by unusable toilet-paper dispensers, difficult flushing controls, and poor stall-status visibility. Many of these issues can be addressed by following standard usability practices.

The Authority Principle

A perceived high-authority status of the person making a request can make people more compliant with that request. Applying this principle in UX can ease users' decision-making process.

Privacy UX: Better Notifications And Permission Requests — Smashing Magazine

With so many applications and services and people and machines and chatbots fighting for our attention, staying focused is a luxury that needs to be savored and protected, and so no wonder notifications don’t enjoy a decent reputation these days. More than that, often they feel…

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Frictionless UX: How to Create Smooth User Flows

As designers and developers, it’s beneficial to familiarize yourself with methods that allow you to create frictionless interactions.In this article, I’ll analyze steps in user flow that often cause friction and propose solutions on how to optimize them. In this product…

12 Best Free UX/UI Prototyping Tools for Web/App Designers in 2020 - noupe

A good prototyping tool can not only bring your design idea into life with ease. It also helps you to test, demonstrate, iterate and share your design

Landing Pages: The Complete Guide to Effective UX Design

A guide for helping designers and developers build landing pages that convert visitors to customers and customers to brand advocates.

Executing UX Animations: Duration and Motion Characteristics

Define a trigger, transformations, duration, and easing of the animation, and be mindful of accessibility issues and annoying the user.

Capture Attention Through Color Psychology :: UXmatters

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Understanding Cultures :: UXmatters

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How Color Impacts UX

Color impacts everything from how a user feels when they interact with a design, to how they use the design, to whether they can fully see and understand it. Quite simply, color is a lot more than a decorative tool; color is central to user experience.

Button Design – Get Site Visitors to Actually Click Your Buttons

Buttons are one of the most common UI elements making it possible for users to interact with apps and sites, and take action.

Designing for Touch :: UXmatters

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Creating Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes, Part 2 :: UXmatters

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W3Schools.com

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

How to Create a Wireframe? Step-by-Step Guide + Examples

Read about creating a wireframe for digital products. Learn the exact stepsand see the benefits of starting design with wireframing.

Animation for Attention and Comprehension

Motion is a powerful tool to attract users’ attention. When designing an animation consider its goal, its frequency of occurrence, and its mechanics.

Creepiness–Convenience Tradeoff

As people consider whether to use the new "creepy" technologies, they do a type of cost-benefit analysis weighing the loss of privacy against the benefits they will receive in return.

Change Blindness in UX: Definition

Significant changes in a web page can remain unnoticed when they lack strong cues, due to the limitations of human attention.

Design Psychology and the Neuroscience of Awesome UX | Toptal®

Human cognition is complex, and many factors play into instant impressions. Design psychology is coming to the forefront as more and more companies are using neuroscience to design better user experiences. Great user experience design isn’t magic—it’s science.

Three Key SERP Features: Featured Snippets, People Also Ask, and Knowledge Panels

These elements of search-engine results pages can direct attention, help people reformulate their queries, and influence users’ information needs.

The Dangers of Overpersonalization

Too much personalization leads to homogeneous experiences for users and can generate content fatigue and lack of diversity.

What You Need to Know About Negotiating Design Ideas with Skeptical Customers

A fully interactive prototype created in UXPin can reduce confusion on expectations as both you and the customer are visualizing the same end product.

The Critical Incident Technique in UX

The CIT is a research method for systematically obtaining recalled observations of significant events or behaviors from people who have first-hand experience.

Similarity Principle in Visual Design

Design elements that appear similar in some way — sharing the same color, shape, or size — are perceived as related, while elements that appear dissimilar are perceived as belonging to separate groups.

Visual Design: Glossary

Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to visual design.

Crafting a UX Portfolio :: UXmatters

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Creating Low-Fidelity or High-Fidelity Prototypes, Part 1 :: UXmatters

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UX Design — Smashing Magazine

User Experience (UX) Design is the process of creating experiences that aren't just attractive to look at, but that also work well for our users. In this guide we round up some of the articles on Smashing that can help you to create beautiful sites and applications that also…