Radical Redesign or Incremental Change?
Summary: Before you throw out the old and bring in the new (redesign), make sure you have solid evidence that doing so is necessary to achieve user-centered goals.
Summary: Before you throw out the old and bring in the new (redesign), make sure you have solid evidence that doing so is necessary to achieve user-centered goals.
Every day, people visit your store and leave because they couldn’t find what they wanted. You need more than top rankings on Google. People have to be able to navigate to the product they want and trust you enough to buy. Your website’s user experience (UX) should focus on building your visitor’s confidence by helping...
Our discussion will focus on menu navigation of a website, and we have chosen to review Standard Market’s website. Standard Market is a local high-end grocery store with a restaurant and taproom. When we review main menu navigation on websites, the first thing we examine is the menu location. Users want to see the main menu navigation at the...
Whenever I see one of those “Top ten designs of the year” or “Eight keys to good navigation design” I usually rip into them. It’s really not that I am a negative person. It is just that they always tend to be so overly simplistic. They underappreciate the importance of context or completely misunderstand human behavior.
In a study by Google in August of 2012, researchers found that not only will users judge websites as beautiful or not within 1/50th – 1/20th of a second, but also that “visually complex” websites are consistently rated as less beautiful than their simpler counterparts.