Businesses reached the point where they’re aware of the importance of user experience. If you want to have a successful app, you need to focus your activities on meeting your user’s needs, as well as enable them to achieve their goals and address their pain points. Here are a few ways that will help you achieve a better user experience which your users will appreciate in the long run.
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If you are running a business and would like to expand an existing product or create a new one, you are probably asking yourself “How can I develop my product to make it a success?”. The idea is one thing, but user reception can be another. So, if you want to avoid pointless work and wasting resources, your product has to be perfectly prepared. You might have also thought about hiring a company that is focused on UX design - experts in connecting businesses and their users.
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The first half of 2019 was a record-breaking period for investments and acquisitions, to say the very least: over $2 trillion in deals was made around the world, from small takeovers to blockbuster megamergers. Deliveroo got in on the action in May, gaining worldwide attention when it was announced that Amazon would lead a $575 million (£450m) funding round for a minority stake in the British company.
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Digital product design is evolving dynamically with the rise of new cutting-edge technologies that change the way users interact with their devices. That’s why it’s crucial to stay up-to-date with the recent discoveries and methodologies used to provide the best experience to your audience. We put together 10 UX trends that will help you craft user-centered products in 2019.
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As a traveller and a hothead, I use plenty of travel apps that help me move around, find inspiration and tips, or buy tickets and book accommodation online. Traveling is my passion, however oftentimes I feel insecure when I’m in a foreign country. I always ended up writing down the emergency contact information on paper and printing the government information about the country or region I was visiting.
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User research is the foundation of building new products or updating existing ones. It’s a powerful tool to better understand the market, the users, and their needs. It comes in handy with building actionable user stories in a very short period of time, helping you adjust the product to your audience. We leveraged it in one of Netguru’s internal projects, called Netguru Software Radar, so our team could take the most out of it. Here is how it went.
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In April 2019, G Suite, Google’s flagship set of collaboration and productivity apps for business, hit five million paid users worldwide. According to iDatalabs, it’s the market leader among office suite technologies with a 63-percent share. Yet, when it comes to its cloud sharing services, Google Drive is not the most popular choice. Only one in five business customers use the Google Drive cloud storage option at least once a month. Next to security and reliability, ease of use is one of the most important factors when evaluating cloud storage services. Our team decided to find ways to improve Google Drive’s overall experience for a business user.
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Case studies can be amazing communication tools for UX and product designers. They’re a wonderful way to convey your skills to potential clients - not just your ability to deliver beautiful visuals, but also to do research and gain deep understanding of various projects.
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Website navigation is the most important feature of the overall user experience. It can make or break your chances of conversion. Having a good site navigation system in place is critical to the effect your website will have on visitors and whether they will stay on the site to explore other pages or bounce. Navigation is key to the performance of a site but it also has an affect on many other things- from retaining visitors and turning them into conversions.
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Back in the old days, people needed to come up with ways how to communicate with computers in order to use their magnificent power and make the most of it to serve user needs. The way the interfaces worked was dictated by limitations of the computers’ capacity to behave like humans. Therefore, we needed to adjust our behaviour to line up with technology. And so, we learned to bend our natural style of communication and type in lines of commands easily recognized by machines but not so easy to memorise for a human being.
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