Posts Tagged ‘user experience’

How to create secure and memorable passwords

Posted Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Richard Caddick

Tips on how to create a secure password that you will remember.

10 ways you can use photos to influence the user experience

Posted Friday, January 29th, 2010 by James Chudley

Photos can have a fundamental effect upon the user experience but as UX designers we generally ignore them. In this article James Chudley, our resident photographer, shares ten ways that you can use photos to enhance the user experience as well as suggesting a new way to annotate photographs in your wireframes and prototypes.

Five tips to improve your user interface design

Posted Thursday, January 14th, 2010 by Richard Caddick

Five top tips to improve user interface design at an early stage of project development.

Using ethnography to improve user experience

Posted Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 by Bonny Colville-Hyde

Ethnography is a research method that can be used to find out how to make your brand more appealing to your customers. In this blog Bonny looks at how cxpartners use ethnography to provide insights in to customer journeys.

3 isn’t the magic number

Posted Tuesday, July 14th, 2009 by Fiz Yazdi

Jared Spool gave an excellent talk at UX London in June called ‘Designing for Content-Rich Sites’. Fiz was there and here she talks about the myth of the 3 click rule.

Ecommerce optimisation tips part 2: Designing for desirability and how to avoid feature creep

Posted Thursday, July 9th, 2009 by James Chudley

Users find desirable products easier to use, but how do you make your product desirable without killing it with feature creep?

Ecommerce optimisation tips: Why you shouldn’t treat your users like flies

Posted Friday, July 3rd, 2009 by James Chudley

A successful ecommerce site must do many things for users, and not just sell them things.

Design for addiction: Three rules from Tetris and Twitter

Posted Friday, June 26th, 2009 by Giles Colborne

Twitter and Tetris can teach us a lot about what makes a product addictive and compelling to use.

Consistency and design

Posted Friday, June 5th, 2009 by Bonny Colville-Hyde

Using consistent design and interactions helps users to learn and use your products.

Usability and user experience

Posted Thursday, April 16th, 2009 by Richard Caddick

What’s the difference between usability and user experience? Our MD Richard has a go at answering this common question.