The Power of Exponential Growth | Data Viz to Simplify Complexity
There has been a lot of heartbreak around the world with the CV-19 pandemic. This chart, from NPR, illustrates some cause for optimism. It shows the 7-day average new cases per day across the world. It is crucial to acknowledge what’s hidden in the aggregated trend above: The impact on individual countries is variable. A […]
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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!
By every indicator available, ecommerce is continuing to grow at an insane speed. Although it may seem impossible to imagine with ecommerce already totaling up to 5% of overall commerce, there’s astronomical growth still to come. Still, I’m heartbroken that some the simplest elements of ecommerce stink so much. It is 2018—why are there still […]
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Unsexy Fundamentals Focus: User Experiences That Print Money
Like me, I’m sure you are working on complex challenges when it comes to data. Multi-petabyte data warehouses. Multi-touch, cross-channel attribution analysis. Media mix modeling. Predictive analytics. Human-centric analysis. Oh, and let’s not forget the application of machine learning to every facet of your work. It is genuinely fun to work on these opportunities. They’re […]
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4 under-the-radar UX flaws that are killing your conversion rate
As all business owners who operate an ecommerce website know, it can take a while to hit full stride in terms of conversion rate. But what if your UX is turning people off? Here are 4 UX flaws that might be killing your conversions.
Suck Less | A Plea For User-Centric Design: Powered By You!
Analysts, honestly, make the world go round when it comes to any successful business – yes, data is that important. As you might expect from any role, they also make a handful of important mistakes. I’ve written about the biggest mistake web analysts make. Today’s post is an adjacent mistake: The cardinal sin of spending […]
Suck Less | A Plea For User-Centric Design: Powered By You! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Suck Less | A Plea For User-Centric Design: Powered By You!
Analysts, honestly, make the world go round when it comes to any successful business – yes, data is that important. As you might expect from any role, they also make a handful of important mistakes. I’ve written about the biggest mistake web analysts make. Today’s post is an adjacent mistake: The cardinal sin of spending […]
Suck Less | A Plea For User-Centric Design: Powered By You! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
The three Us of mobile design: UX v usability v UI
Mobile design focuses, or should focus, on the user. This so-called user-centric design has generated a healthy obsession with the three Us: … read more
Five ways UX blends with SEO to improve a site’s performance
It’s SEO that may lead traffic to the site and help it reach a higher position on SERPs, but it’s UX that will determine whether the traffic can be maintained and converted into the set goals.
10 ways to improve mobile UX
Do you have a mobile website? Is it responsive or did you use a nice plugin to make it look good? Does it convert? With the use of internet everywhere, your mobile website’s user experience (or mobile UX) should get as much attention as the user experience of your desktop website. In this post, I’d like…
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How to clean up your site structure
We all know that moment where your website has grown to this monstrous collection of pages. That moment when you realize that you have too many pages in your menu and the coherence of your website is nowhere to be found. And we also know what a struggle it is to clean this mess up.…
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Thoughts on 404 Not Found error pages
Have you ever wondered why you should have that 404 Not Found page? What’s the use? The page is gone or broken and you don’t want people to end up there, so why not just redirect that page to the homepage of your website? They even made WordPress plugins that will help you do this,…
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Reviewing our site reviews: highly satisfied customers!
We have been doing website reviews for more than 3 years now. Recently, we decided to update our format. We now offer different types of reviews, varying in depth of the analysis and in price accordingly. After completing a review, we usually have some contact with our customers (we answer questions about the review), but…
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Demystifying Viewing Patterns
Lately I’ve been intrigued by something called the ‘viewing pattern’ of people. This is a pattern in which people view, in this case, websites. There are really a lot of ideas about this out there. Now I’m wondering: is there one right pattern? In other words: is there one pattern we should follow when designing our product…
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Global Site Infrastructure Plan Essential For Effective SEO & Usability
Targeting the world with a website is a huge opportunity for today’s marketers — but very few businesses start out with that goal. The vast majority target a particular nation first, prove the business model, grow their business’ success, and then consider rolling out globally….
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Homepage Sliders: Bad For SEO, Bad For Usability
One of the most prevalent design flaws in B2B websites is the use of carousels (or sliders) on the homepage. Carousels are an ineffective way to target user personas, which ends up hurting the site’s SEO and usability. In fact, at the recent Conversion Conference in Chicago, about 25% of the…
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7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences
We are surrounded by incredible digital experiences. Masterful design, branding and marketing. Yet, it would be fair to say we are also drowning in awful digital experiences – or, at the very minimum, experiences that seem to be stuck in 1991. As a Digital Marketing Evangelist you can imagine how much that pains me. When […]
7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik