You have created the best web application in the entire world and now want people to use it. But have you thought about how your user can start using the application? This process to enable the user to start using your application is called Onboarding. Designing your web applications to onboard the user is very […]
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Yes, there is a difference between a customer and a user of a web application. Not always, but in many cases. So what do I mean by a customer and a user? Customer is someone who buys your web application to solve a problem or to complete a task. User is someone who actually uses
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In one of the web applications that I designed, we had to design a tagging feature that would let the user tag certain objects in the application. The web application was meant to let the users schedule the production lines of the company. In the process of doing that, they would generate Work Orders that
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Drag and Drop is a common feature these days. Whether it’s a desktop application or a web application, you will see implementations of drag and drop everywhere. But not everyone implements it properly. There are many people who design their drag and drop feature the wrong way. It not only confuses the users but also
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There are not many projects in this world that have not faced Scope Creep at some point in their execution cycle. Whether you like it or not, most of us have to deal with Scope Creep in one project or the other. Even I have faced Scope Creeps on some of my projects. As I
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Yes it is true. Designing for UX is not a good thing always. You must be thinking that I have gone completely insane. Everyone knows how important it is to give the best user experience to your user. After all, all that matters is the user, right? But over the years of designing Enterprise level
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Let us get to the basics of web application design and start with understanding what a wireframe is. By definition a wireframe is a skeletal three-dimensional model in which only lines and vertices are represented. Ok, 3-dimensional? Well, the term wireframe is not specific to the web design industry. Other industries, like the manufacturing industry,
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You go into a design review meeting with your client to show the design of the web application you have created for them and it gets rejected. Sounds familiar? You designed what the client had asked for and yet your design got rejected. You have designed the best user interface for the web application, keeping
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Couple of weeks back, I was using Google Adwords for finding topics to write on User Experience. And ironically, I stumbled upon a User Experience issue in the Adwords interface. For those of you who don’t know what Google Adwords is, it is a web application by Google that allows you to buy ads on
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Yesterday I stumbled upon an article by Paul Boag in which he discussed about how small things can make big differences in design by giving an example of how to design the Country picker drop-down. The point being addressed was the display of large number of countries in a drop-down. Drop-down lists are good enough
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