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The Persuasive Web and the Effect on UX

David Barker — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:30:53 +0000

Persuasion is used throughout the web and comes in many different guises. In his book “The Psychology of Persuasion” Robert Cialdani identifies six key principles of persuasion: Reciprocation; Commitment and consistency; Social proof; Liking; Authority; Scarcity. These principles are used in many different areas of life and often by sales people. I will be looking [...]

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Using Paper Prototyping as a Tool for Participatory Design Research

Catalina Naranjo-Bock — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:58:47 +0000

Participatory design research is the art and science of inviting users and stakeholders to play an active role during the design and development process. It starts from the premise that all people are creative and are able to express (and address) their needs, desires, emotions and pain points with the help of ambiguous stimuli and [...]

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Responsive Design: hype or solution?

Elles de Boorder — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:58:20 +0000

They seem to love it in the US. Many blogs write about the latest trend: Responsive Design. With the arrival of smart phones and tablets, this is a logical solution for those who do not want to invest in various versions of a website for all those different devices. This phenomenon also starts to appear [...]

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Call to Action Buttons Part 3: Shape and Size

Paul Olyslager — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:15:08 +0000

In our 4-part series about Call to Action buttons, we have come to the 3rd post in which I explain the impact of shape and size on the effectiveness of a button. With the help of several studies I will show you the best practices in order to increase the CTR (Clickthrough Rate) of the [...]

Call to Action Buttons Part 3: Shape and Size is a post written by Paul Olyslager. Visit the blog for more articles and reviews about web design, user experience (ux) and interface (ui), web usability and online applications.

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Top 5 Elements Every Website Must Have

Karen Fojas Lee — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 06:01:45 +0000

Are you a small business or organization just getting your presence started on the web? Or do you already have a website and can’t figure out why your visitor traffic is lacking? In either case, here are a couple of essential components that you will need to include in your website to ensure a more [...]

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Accessibility Updates For Your Website

Thomas O'Rourke — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:14:50 +0000

It’s astonishing how often the issue of accessibility in web design is simply disregarded or ignored. Refusing to acknowledge disabled users of your website is potentially damaging – as well as the impact on your reputation, discriminatory laws in both the US and UK mean that there can now be legal implications for those who [...]

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Call to Action Buttons Part 2: Placement

Paul Olyslager — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:24:38 +0000

In the first part about Call to Action buttons, I talked about the usage of color and how it affects the user’s behaviour. As mentioned in this article, a CTA-button has 4 important tools: placement, shape (and size), message and color. In this second part I would like to give you some pointers about the [...]

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Call To Action Buttons and the Psychology of Color

Paul Olyslager — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:19:08 +0000

By combining scientific studies on color with some design principles, you can create a great call-to-action button for your website and improve its conversion rate drastically.
A CTA-button has 4 important tools to achieve this: placement, shape (and size), message and color. In this article I will talk about the aspect of color.

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A guest post on Uxbooth: 7 WordPress plugins for a more User Friendly blog

Paul Olyslager — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:16:06 +0000

On the 16th of November I wrote a guest post in which I explained how to improve the usability of any WordPress based blog by installing 7 WP plugins. You can find a small summary of the article in here or you can read the full article on the website of uxbooth.com.

A guest post on Uxbooth: 7 WordPress plugins for a more User Friendly blog is a post written by Paul Olyslager. Visit the blog for more articles and reviews about web design, user experience (ux) and interface (ui), web usability and online applications.

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Google Introduces Instant Previews in your Search Results

Paul Olyslager — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:45:08 +0000

Google unveiled yet again a new way of improving the usabilitly of their search engine. Test results are already in!

Google Introduces Instant Previews in your Search Results is a post written by Paul Olyslager. Visit the blog for more articles and reviews about web design, user experience (ux) and interface (ui), web usability and online applications.

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