6 Ecommerce Checkout Page Optimizations for Higher Conversion [2018] Checkout page optimization is a frequently overlooked area for retailers looking for routes to increase online revenue. Instead, many online business owners and managers focus on optimizing for the front end of the website –– creating beautiful designs, site experiences and merchandising product to push customers down a purchase funnel. That makes sense. After all, this is your customer’s first impression of your business, and your first opportunity to convince them to stay, browse and buy. But when it comes to buying, an online store’s checkout far surpasses any other element of the website in terms of importance — including CTA buttons, product page specifications, and other more commonly thought-of factors. The End Of Apps As We Know Them The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes what we need to design and build. How we experience content via connected devices – laptops, phones, tablets, wearables – is undergoing a dramatic change. The idea of an app as an independent destination is becoming less important, and the idea of an app as a publishing tool, with related notifications that contain content and actions, is becoming more important. This will change what we design, and change our product strategy.
2010 Census: Children less than five years old in Chicagoland By Chris Groskopf and Brian Boyer Aug. 7, 2011 This map shows the distribution of children less than five years old in Cook, Lake, Kane, McHenry, Kankakee, Kendall and DuPage counties as reported by the 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot represents a single child Navigation Design 101 : Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog “Wait, so what am I supposed to do here exactly?!” – is the last thing you want your visitors to ask themselves when they’ve just come across your site for the very first time. Navigation design can be a tricky thing. And especially if you’re leaving it for last – making it this one final element that you will optimize nearing the whole project’s completion. Five Interesting Ways to Use Array.reduce() (And One Boring Way) Of all the modern array methods, the one I had the hardest time wrapping my head around was Array.reduce(). On the surface, it seems like a simple, boring method that doesn’t do much. But below its humble exterior, Array.reduce() is actually a powerful, flexible addition to your developer toolkit. Today, we’re going to look at some cool things you can do with Array.reduce().
Icon Usability In addition to conveying brand personality through color and style, icons must first and foremost communicate meaning in a graphical user interface. Icons are, by definition, a visual representation of an object, action, or idea. If that object, action, or idea is not immediately clear to users, the icon is reduced to mere eye candy — confusing, frustrating, eye candy — and to visual noise that hinders people from completing a task. The benefits of icons in a graphical user interface (GUI) include: Icons make good targets: they are typically sized large enough to be easily touched in a finger-operated UI, but also work well with a mouse cursor (in contrast to words, which can suffer from read–tap asymmetry on touch screens).
Kano model The Kano model is a theory of product development and customer satisfaction developed in the 1980s by Professor Noriaki Kano, which classifies customer preferences into five categories. Categories[edit] These categories have been translated into English using various names (delighters/exciters, satisfiers, dissatisfiers, etc.), but all refer to the original articles written by Kano. Dialysis Facility Tracker By Robin Fields, Al Shaw, and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica, Updated October 4, 2013 This site is for dialysis patients and others who want to learn about the quality of care at individual dialysis clinics. Among other things, you can learn how often patients treated at a facility have been hospitalized, report certain types of infections or are placed on the transplant list. The information is submitted by facilities and collected by contractors of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that oversees most dialysis care. Related story: Dialysis Data, Once Confidential, Shines Light on Clinic Disparities »
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki] That should be corrected if anyone invents a time machine. :P white-space: nowrap should be white-space: no-wrap and line wrapping behavior should not have been added to white-space vertical-align should not apply to table cells. Instead the CSS3 alignment properties should exist in Level 1. vertical-align: middle should be text-middle or x-middle because it's not really in the middle, and such a name would better describes what it does. Percentage heights should be calculated against fill-available rather than being undefined in auto situations. Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design Uncover the jobs the product is hired for A product has a core user experience, which is basically the reason the product exists. It fulfills a need or solves a problem people have. By that, it becomes meaningful and provides a certain value.
Understand color theory with these 7 facts - = Designer Blog Color is everywhere – in nature, in cities, in stores, online. We’re so used to it we often don’t notice it’s even there, until we suddenly come across a black and white movie on TV. Then we remember how good it is that we have such a colorful world. For that reason alone, if not for improving your design skill set, knowing how color works is a good thing to do. Chinese Proverbs for the Mind Oops! Forgot to update. Nic’s store is on sale for a few days! I saw the “你和, 我六十九/ touch one’s heart, never be apart” proverb on there. Perfect for upcoming Valentine’s Day, methinks. ( ˘ ³˘)♥