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How Your Website’s Crappy Usability Is Costing You Sales

ROI. By focusing on how users interact with and use your website, you can increase sales and conversions much faster than almost any other traffic generating initiative. Everyone always thinks they know what will improve a company’s bottom line: higher search engine rankings, higher levels of website traffic, more social media outreach, more products, more blog [.

By Justin Mifsud, 6 August 2012

UIE Brain Sparks

UIEtips: The Magic Behind Amazon’s 2.7 Billion Dollar Question

ROI. Ratings and reviews can generate quite a lot of money. Who hasn’t asked a friend, peer, or family member their opinion on products or services, especially on something you’re about to purchase? A simple, “it did the job” or “it’s worth the money” is enough to convince most people to complete their purchase. How these ratings and reviews are communicated to the potential buyer on your web site is critical.

By Jared Spool, 30 May 2012

UIE Brain Sparks

UIEtips: Unleashing the Power of a UX KPI

ROI. Measuring is easy, but KPIs are hard. There are a ton of things we can measure about our designs. We can measure the users’ satisfaction. We can measure whether they complete tasks we assign them.

By Jared Spool, 23 May 2012

Adaptive Path

Better Revenue Through UX

ROI. Smart UX managers deliver better experiences and better revenue. That's their job. At the heart of this year's MX Conference was a talk by Hotwire Group's head of mobile, Melissa Matross. Her story starts with her hatred of display ads and how they took away from the quality of the Hotwire experience as a "necessary evil.

By Brandon Schauer, 21 May 2012

Featured

Putting people first

Communicating the UX value proposition

ROI. John Dilworth and Matt Miller of LDS Church provide an overall framework to communicate the value of UX within businesses, that directly associates the value proposition of UX with key business objectives. “It is the job of the UX designer to demonstrate the value that UX work brings to a product or service.

By Experientia, 27 April 2012

Co.Design

Dollars And Sense: The Business Case For Investing In UI Design

ROI. In their rush to build more features into their electronic devices, companies often lose sight of a key ingredient: basic usability. User-interface design (UI), the art of simplifying complexity into meaningful user experiences, is an increasingly important competitive advantage for technology companies launching new products, as people from consumers to business users seek solutions that offer as much intuitiveness as they do function.

By Peter Eckert, 15 March 2012

UXmatters

Leveraging User Experience Research in Driving Business Results: A Quick Guide

ROI. By Frank Guo Published: March 5, 2012 “User research is a powerful truth-finding tool that can help business leaders to make better business decisions, in addition to supporting UX professionals in making good product design decisions. ” User research is a powerful truth-finding tool that can help business leaders to make better business decisions, in addition to supporting UX professionals in making good product design decisions.

6 March 2012

UIE Brain Sparks

The Back Story for the $300 Million Button

ROI. By far, The $300 Million Button is the most popular article on UIE. com. Here’s the back story for how we discovered the problem and the role that analytics played: We had been working on a client project, helping their team redesign their checkout process with some new user research and design techniques.

By Jared Spool, 17 October 2011

Featured

Good Usability

The other side of intranet efficiency

ROI. I haven’t written anything about intranets on my blog yet. I worked for several years on intranet usability, and after years of counselling feel I’m about ready to talk about my experiences. In this post I’ll tell a story that explains how organisations sometimes think they’re being more efficient when the opposite is true.

By David Hamill, 12 September 2011

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Why Web Site Usability is Important for a Company

ROI. On the World Wide Web, a company’s web site is the only point of contact that a company has with anyone who is interested in it. Thus, companies entirely rely on their web presence in order to achieve their online goals, be they commercial or otherwise.

By Justin Mifsud, 18 July 2011

Measuring Usability:...

Usability as a Key Driver of Revenue

ROI. Many companies understand the importance of user centered design in theory. Few can track how money invested in improving the user experience translates into profitability. By quantifying design efforts and outcomes all organizations can benefit from understanding how improving the user experience can improve revenue.

8 March 2011

UIE Brain Sparks

UIEtips: Understanding the Kano Model – A Tool for Sophisticated Designers

ROI. “We learned that it was all about getting the basics right,” the product manager told me, having just come back from a tour of observing multiple customers. “We can invest in all the nifty new features we want, but if we don’t get the product’s basic features to work right, our users don’t care. ” This was news to her. But it wasn’t news to me.

By Jared Spool, 18 January 2011

UX Movement

The $12 Million Optional Form Field

ROI. [Note: This post is a response to Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m] Expedia learned a valuable lesson about optional form fields. And it only took them $12 million to do it. You, however, can learn it right here for free. The lesson is this.

By anthony, 3 November 2010

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