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UX Design

Notoriously difficult to define, User Experience (UX) Design is more than anything else the analytical side of creating a web or mobile User Interface (UI), with the goal of producing websites and mobile apps that work as intended, are easy to use, and users love to interact with.

Here you will find an extensive collection of articles, tips, and recommended tools, written by professional UX Designers, covering all aspects of User Experience Design.

Usability Rules for Content Sites

Usability Rules for Content Sites

Content sites, such as blogs, article directories, image galleries, video galleries, etc. are a major category of sites and if you haven’t designed such a site until now, you can…

User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

The search engine is our best tool for sifting through all of today’s websites. There are billions of domains online and many of them haven’t even been crawled by search…

Quick look at some of the Popular Web Design Trends from 2011

Quick look at some of the Popular Web Design Trends from 2011

Looking back over the past year we can pick up a lot of fresh emerging trends. Web designers around the world are connected like never before through a seemingly endless…

Creating a Pixel-Perfect UI for iPhone Applications

Creating a Pixel-Perfect UI for iPhone Applications

Developing apps for the iPhone or iPad can be a tricky process. You need to understand not just the programming libraries, but also design standards and common themes in user…

Essential Help & FAQ Usability Tips

Essential Help & FAQ Usability Tips

A FAQ – frequently asked questions – should be an important part of your website or service. They speed up the help for your users by not waiting for a…

Complex Captchas Might Hurt Your Subscriber List

Complex Captchas Might Hurt Your Subscriber List

There is a chance that complex captchas are ruining your efforts to build a subscriber list, especially if you are using the free Feedburner RSS to Email service. After all,…

Signup Form Usability & Design Best Practices

Signup Form Usability & Design Best Practices

Honest usability techniques when applied properly will expand your site layouts beyond the elite in web design. When you can open your mind to new ideas it’s possible to manifest…

User Interface Case Study of Flash Video Players

User Interface Case Study of Flash Video Players

Flash technology has overtaken the web by storm. Many designers and app developers have been utilizing Flash since it was created by Macromedia in 1996. Today modern standards have been…

5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

If you were to ask any blogger what the most important thing is when it comes to running a successful blog, chances are that the answer would be “good content”….

Exploring Mobile Device & App Development Trends

Exploring Mobile Device & App Development Trends

We have all been hearing the chatter about mobile applications. It seems 2010 has been an astounding year for development in mobile technology, both hardware, and software. Apple’s iPhone &…

Navigation Accessibility Tips

Navigation Accessibility Tips

Website navigation is our common communication system between all other web pages. Interlinking through unique identifiers (URLs) has worked for decades. If anything, navigation links have been with the basics…

Creating User-Sensitive Website Layouts

Creating User-Sensitive Website Layouts