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User Research: 10 Techniques to Get Started or Improve
We all know we should do user research, but making it happen can be hard. This post will show you ten ways you can do user research and suggest where you should focus.
How Serious Are You About Sales? 3 Tips for Success.
If you are a freelancer or agency owner, the ability to sell your services is essential to your survival. Unfortunately, few invest the time and money into doing it well.
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Content Strategy
Advice on improving the quality of the content you deliver via digital services. Whether that be copy, imagery, video or audio.
- How to get users involved in creating better content
- 7 ways a great copywriter crafts compelling web copy
Development
Ideas and thoughts on how development has a significant impact on the user experience through everything from security to performance.
- Why you should want to be a user experience developer
- Designing with data and incremental development
- How to squeeze the most from your images
Digital Marketing
Opinions on the role of marketing in a digital world. Advice on balancing marketing objectives with the user experience.
- Call to Action: How to Improve Your Conversion Rate. The Best Techniques.
- How to save your marketing strategy with UX design
Digital Strategy
A look at the business strategy, governance and culture that drives a company's approach to their digital strategy and ultimately the user experience.
- Digital Transformation: A Comprehensive Introduction
- 7 things to do when stuck in a dead end digital team
- Website Reviews: Why they suck and how to make them better
Inclusive Design
Advice on how to make your digital services available to the widest possible audience.
- Accessibility is Not What You Think
- How to Fix the Devastating Impact of Cognitive Load on Your Site
- Accessibility advice for businesses
Interface Design
Advice on everything from aesthetic design to improving the interfaces that support your digital services.
- How to adopt an iterative approach to UI design
- How to create a pattern library and why you should bother
- Design convergence is not a dirty word
User Experience
Advice on how to improve the user's experience beyond the edge of the screen. Where user interface design stops, UX continues.
- Why you should want to be a user experience developer
- Designing with data and incremental development
- How to get users involved in creating better content
Working in Digital
Thoughts and advice on a career in digital. From opinions about the direction of the sector to tips to improve your skill set.
- How to Grow a Successful Web Design Business With 10 Lessons
- The 8 worst things you can do to try and convince somebody
- The big question: Can you design an experience?
Books and resources
User Experience Revolution
Do you feel like the only person at your company who understands the competitive advantage a good user experience provides? Would you like to see change but cannot make it happen. Then User Experience Revolution is for you. A practical playbook to place the user experience at the heart of your business.
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Conversion Rate Optimisation Masterclass
Every website seeks to persuade visitors to do something, whether it is place an order, make a donation or signup to a mailing list. But how do you do that without alienating users? This video masterclass will teach you the secret.
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Digital Adaptation
Digital is not just another tool we can bolt on to our businesses. It has transformed our world and our organisations need to adapt to this new reality. This book introduces management to the steps they need to take. Steps to ensure their organisation succeeds in the digital economy.
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