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How To Improve Website Usability By Improving Content

Content plays an important role in building a relationship with your readers and consequently, converting them into a buyer or a client. Along with good content writing, it’s also quite a prerequisite to present content in an interesting and user friendly way. This goes a long way in improving and influencing your website’s usability. Improving … continue reading

Call to Action Buttons Part 3: Shape and Size

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 … continue reading

Call to Action Buttons Part 2: Placement

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 … continue reading

Call To Action Buttons and the Psychology of Color

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.

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

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.

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Don't Make Me Think - By Steve Krug
Prioritizing Web Usability - By Jacob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web - by Jessa James Garrett
A Project Guide to UX Design - By Carolyn Chandler
Rocket Surgery Made Easy - By Steve Krug