Naughty or Nice: Check Your Ecommerce Site Twice! .
Naughty or Nice Check Your Ecommerce Site Twice
Naughty or Nice: Check Your Ecommerce Site Twice! .
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Every year it can feel like the holidays sneak up on us. We assemble, we strategize, and we take the necessary precautions yet we frequently feel like we are scrambling. For ecommerce businesses, this time of year is crucial not only for generating revenue but for generating recurrent relationships with customers.
While your holiday preparations are most likely long underway, a last-minute checklist will help cover any overlooked ground and give you peace of mind. Following our webinar featuring Coalition Technologies Digital Strategists Brandon Clay and Kevin Kuhn (watch it on-demand here), here are some essential last minute checks for your online store.
Before you initiate these last-minute checks, however,...
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As we continue to showcase a sample of the amazing StudioPress themes now available to WP Engine customers, we’re shifting our focus to food with this new StudioPress Theme: Daily Dish Pro, which is designed to make your content just as appetizing as the best meal at your favorite four-star
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The very notion of a vending machine being so intuitive that it’s positively cutting edge is a quirky one. Vending machines have been disappearing from locations – 134,000 of them between 2007 and 2010 to be precise, across the USA. The machines have been slow to adapt to paperless money
Can Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Alone Save $2 Trillion in Preventing Cybercrime?
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Robotics and Big Data are Transforming Nursing: 4 Key Insights
In healthcare, the robot’s role is to take over tedious, time-consuming, and dangerous or dirty jobs for nurses. Very few nurses dream of sanitizing equipment or dispensing medication when they enter nursing school. They want to be working directly with patients, healing the sick and providing
10 Ways to Use Exit-Intent Popups for Good
Zendesk.com, a customer-service–software company, offered to schedule a demo of its product to users leaving the page. This suggestion could be helpful to some users who hadn’t considered requesting a live demo on their own. This type of popup lowers the interaction cost of searching and
naughty or nice: check your ecommerce site twice! .
Brand Vocabulary in the Context of UX: Key Terms Defined
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Branding an Intranet
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Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
A radio button default selection that designers often struggle with is whether to select a gender or a designation such as Mr., Mrs., Ms., or Miss. Designers don't want to offend customers or risk addressing a person with the wrong designation, so they leave the radio buttons all blank by default
Tabs, Used Right
If you follow the design guidelines in this article, users will know how to use your tabs without further exploration or error-prone guessing. This again means that they can devote all their time and brainpower to understanding the content and features that you’re making available under these
10 Best Application UIs
But Xero might be a more interesting example, simply because it targets the traditionally dry domain of accounting. One of its main features lets users automatically reconcile bookkeeping entries with bank account transactions. As a match is made, the 2 matching entries are removed from the list of
Helpful Filter Categories and Values for Better UX
B&H Photo’s solution is to use sound filter-category prioritization. On its SLR Lenses category pages, general filter categories (Brands, Customer Rating, Price Range) are at the top. More specific — and potentially confusing for inexperienced photographers — filter categories like Lens
naughty or nice: check your ecommerce site twice! .
After the Buy Button in E-Commerce
I recently discussed our report on the usability of confirmation email with a marketing manager. She said that while it was interesting research, it wasn't really relevant to her marketing team because confirmation messages are sent out only after customers have placed their orders. It's
Helping Users Find Physical Locations
To assess the usability of location finders on the Web, we conducted usability studies of website locators for 10 major companies: Andersen, the American Automobile Association (AAA), Bank of America, BMW, Caterpillar, Charles Schwab & Co., The Dow Chemical Company, Toys R Us, Verizon, and
UX Guidelines for Recommended Content
Make personalized content discoverable by prioritizing it over generic content, such as site-wide promotions. If applicable, separate personalized recommendations into clear categories, and note the source of the data used to create the recommendations. Providing methods to interact with the
UX Retrospectives 101
Retrospectives are a dedicated time to come together and collaboratively improve your team’s process. They can be used at multiple places in the product development cycle and their benefits are varied: stronger communication, increased trust among team members, and a plan for moving forward
UX Debt: How to Identify, Prioritize, and Resolve
An example of UX debt can be seen on FedEx’s website in a carousel that appears on the product page for printed posters. Initially, the carousel displays four related products; however, clicking on the right arrow to view more related products reveals only one additional item. Rather than filling
Why There’s a Bright Future in a Cyber Security Careers
If you’re searching for your next career a great place to look is for a job in cyber security. Why? Because the demand for cyber security experts is going up, up, up. Keeping digital assets secure is a vital skillset. As our world grows ever more dependent on the Internet and digital
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
To Prevent Fraud, Healthcare Organizations Must Streamline Their Data Processes
While the incorporation of machine learning and artificial intelligence into the fraud-detection process is exciting, the reality is that many healthcare organizations are too reliant on legacy platforms to immediately take advantage of these technologies. To step into the future of fraud
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
naughty or nice: check your ecommerce site twice! .
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
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Being authentic doesn’t always come naturally in the business world, especially when you’re a startup and your small size works against you. Most entrepreneurs recall a moment where they need to connect an early customer to the accounting department, only to hand the phone to their co-founder
Naughty or Nice: Check Your Ecommerce Site Twice! . | Evolution of a Home Page Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen
Evolution of a Home Page Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen
The main goal of this design iteration was to try out ways of making the design look simpler, more unified, and more approachable. We were running on a very tight development schedule with user tests every second day, so we did not have time to redesign the icons for this iteration. We did try a
Direct Access vs. Sequential Access: UX Definition
Avoid excessively long pages altogether. If you cannot, at least provide a mini-IA: a linked page table of contents at the top of the page or use accordions to do so (especially on mobile). The mini-IA (whether from accordions or jump links) will tell people what to expect on the page, it will
Usability Testing of Advanced Homepage Concepts (by Jakob Nielsen)
Users generally liked having news stories on the home page as opposed to reserving the page strictly for navigation. Some users expressed a preference for limiting the news coverage to a small number of stories in order to avoid scrolling. Several users related recent experiences where they had had