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How to Make a Video Intro for Your Website Home Page

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then consider a video worth a thousand bucks to your website, more specifically… an intro video! There’s no better way to establish yourself for all prospective website visitors than a video describing what your brand is and why it relates to them. With more people using their mobile […]

The Connection Between Good Content and User Experience

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There is often an odd disconnect between content and user experience. The two go hand in hand though. While web design helps to define the user experience, so does the content on the page. This content includes words, photos, colors, and fonts along with native ads and embedded links. This connection is often neglected, and […]

How to Improve Your Page Speed in 4 Easy Steps

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Page loading speeds can really make or break the success of a website or a platform dependent on a browser. Too slow and people will get tired waiting to see what your all about, taking potential business elsewhere and letting you suffer the consequences. That’s why it’s crucial you pay close attention to your page […]

Site Architecture Tips to Make Your Blog Load Faster

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As a blogger, your main concern is to share your ideas top your target audience. To get to that point, you will need to learn how to build a blog, something that this resource can help you do. Once you have built your blog, you will need gain blog visitors for your message to be heard. For […]

The Effects of TLS and SSL on User Experience Design

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Creating an effective website can be a time consuming and laborious process, but when done right the results can lead to high traffic and excellent conversions. The site should be easy to read and navigate, the information contained should be well organized and accurate, and maybe most importantly a user should enjoy using the site. […]

Getting Started with Usability Testing for Web Design

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The Internet is all about people. Websites are designed as information hubs and interactive applications catering directly towards people. So it should be natural to assume that designers and developers want to fix up troubling issues within the user experience. Unfortunately it seems like this process has fallen to the wayside for a number of […]

Why You Should Put an Intro Box on Your Landing Page

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Know that “About Me/Us/the Company” page most websites seem to have? Visitors don’t like it. That sort of page is usually too long and it always requires visitors to do some extra clicking, which they don’t seem to have time for. You want to introduce yourself or your company to your visitors without inconveniencing them […]

Android vs iOS; A Usability Battle

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Lately I’ve noticed a number of articles with gripes and groans about the Android user experience, the way interfaces are designed, the usability of Android apps, and a lack of satisfaction with the whole Android ecosystem.

As someone who works on day-to-day basis with usability testing and user experience design, my interest was piqued. Were these users just iPhone users who expressed dissatisfaction after a brief flirtation with Android, or was there something deeper going on?

I can’t honestly say I’ve had a lot of experience with Android – although I do own two iOS devices – so I couldn’t write off these concerns one way or another. But rather than basing it off a few, possibly biased opinions, it seemed the fairest way to compare the two was to set up a quick usability test.