UX

UX (User Experience) is all about designing the user’s experience, from their first impressions to the lasting relationship they have with your website.

What’s the Best Way to Share Your Work Online?

One of the things you must do as a freelancer is take charge of your professional (and financial) destiny. You have to…

How Color Impacts UX

Color impacts everything from how a user feels when they interact with a design, to how they use the design, to whether…

Is Medium in a Downward Spiral?

For a few short years Medium was the place to post content online. Now, as disillusioned users migrate content away…

7 Ways to Convey Sarcasm in Web Content

Edge is actually a kind of decent browser, just missing some features. Writing CSS using JavaScript is a viable and…

10 Simple Strategies for Successful Content Marketing

Whether you are an established brand or a startup, content marketing is one thing you should be thinking about. In…

5 Web Design Turn-Offs To Avoid

The Internet of today is a highly competitive place. With so many individuals and businesses spending money and time on…

4 Times When it’s OK to Trick Users

Tricking people can be… well… tricky. The problem, at its most fundamental level, is that people only like to be…

6 Tips for Posting Content Anonymously

For one reason or another, you may find yourself wanting to publish things online anonymously. Now to some, the…

Learnability in UX Design

Building a learnable website is much tougher than it sounds. One thinks one’s design is clear and comprehensible;…

Thoughts on Designing for the Existence of Children

Ah, kids…The light of our lives. They bring joy, fulfillment, laughter, and love. Then they start crying, and I hand…

Case Study: Killer Marketing Can’t Overcome Poor UX

In 2014, I was a busy, young software engineer working full-time for a tech company in London. On a quest to be hyper…

Enhancing Website Design with UX Writing

As a UX writer, it’s my job to know how to create web copy that convinces readers to take action. That said, it doesn’t…

Telling Tales: How Storytelling Can Elevate Your Website

When we look at the very best content, it’s almost always about telling a story: From memorable TV adverts that run…

3 Tips for Creating a Effective User Flow

The purpose of almost every web design is to entice customers into buying your products, or subscribing to your…

Respectful UX: 5 Ways to Make Users Feel Valued

Every human being needs, rather desperately, to feel accepted. They don’t necessarily need to feel accepted by…

7 Ways to Utilize User-Generated Content in 2019

Running low on content ideas? User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a more and more popular means of filling company…

5 Tips for Using Curation as a Content Strategy

Every day, thousands—if not millions—of people are all asking themselves the same, simple question: what do I post now?…

5 Ways to Design for a Local Audience

In a recent post, I discussed how caution needs to be taken when designing websites for a global audience. Different…