UX

Want to reach a broader audience? You are not alone! Outside of the digital space, savvy planning can ensure that a product or service is usable by as many humans as possible by removing barriers and creating intuitive tools and welcoming spaces. Although websites offer a virtual rather than a physical experience, there is much to be learned from environmental design.

Your brand colors make a big emotional impact, but how do they appear to site visitors who are partially sighted, color blind, or faced with environmental factors that decrease visibility? Color and contrast levels are crucial to communication, and for the accessibility-minded designer, getting these details just right is a key element for a successful project.

As we begin a fresh, brand-spanking-new year, several UX design practices and technologies stand out as the most exciting and relevant. While they are not all necessarily bleeding edge or super trendy, these considerations are becoming more and more vital to our clients and will be at the forefront in the year to come and beyond. Here’s an overview of what we’re watching, how the UX landscape is shifting, its impact on marketing and consumer experience, and what it means to you!

Someone once said, “if you have to explain the joke, it takes the fun out of it.” Well, the same can be said for designing a website. Explaining the important and sometimes technical details can be a tedious process many designers would avoid if possible. But when it comes to communicating the form and function of the user experience through wireframes, explaining each element can make or break the project. It’s always a good idea to include annotations.
 

User experience counts in today's global, digital landscape: every dollar spent on UX design yields up to $100 in return.

In our latest webinar, Mediacurrent's VP of Sales Josh Linard and Lingotek's VP of Marketing Calvin Scharffs shared some UX and CX strategies to boost global revenue and conversions.

They offer practical advice to enhance the digital experience that your organization delivers to customers, employees and other stakeholders - and the right way to measure it.
 

The internet is changing the way we think, work, and play. In the second event of an executive roundtable series, we teamed up with Acquia and Lingotek to create a guide to understanding the return on investment of UX design.

The event drew attendees from nonprofit, higher ed, and large enterprise organizations in the Atlanta area for a lively discussion and Q&A. If you missed us, here’s a recap including the presentation deck and video recording.

Our “ROI of UX” presentation covered these key points:

TIGF! Thanks for watching Episode 20 of The Mediacurrent Friday 5.

This week Sr Front End Developer, Eric Huffman joins me to give 5 Tips for Better User Experience in Right To Left Language sites.

He provides insight into best practices of bidirectionality, how to identify and test bidirectional requirements, how to adjust floats, positioning and text alignment, and more!

What makes a good designer? Well, of course, you have to be creative, understand how to solve problems in unconventional ways, and do it all within budget. But wait, there's more to it than being super creative and solving problems. You must be able to make others understand how your design vision solves their problems.
 

If you are a front end developer, the biggest takeaway from Dries’s keynote at Drupalcon New Orleans was the Drupal 8 Component based theme initiative.

DrupalCon always provides many opportunities to discover new methods and tools, and this year’s conference in New Orleans was no different.