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Redesigning The Country Selector

April 28, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Advertisement The country selector. It’s there when you create an account for a new Web service, check out of an e-commerce store or sign up for a conference. The normal design? A drop-down list with all of the available countries. However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out usability (which we wrote about here on Smashing Magazine back in April 2011), we consistently found usability issues with the massive country selector drop-downs. Jakob Nielsen reported similar issues as far back as 2000 and 2007 when testing drop-downs with a large number of options, such as state and country lists. So, this past summer we set out to redesign the country selector. This article focuses on the four design iterations we …

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The Gap between UI and UX Design – Know the Difference

April 25, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Do you know that UI and UX are not the same concepts? Surely, they are closely connected, even mutually penetrated and rarely exist without each other. Would you like to study the differences between UI and UX design in detail? This article will give you such an opportunity. We believe that it is impossible to become an expert designer without a strong knowledge of both terms. We promise that some definitions will seem fun to you; some of them will seem serious and in-depth. The info you are going to read is vivid and informal as we have based it on real web developers’ thoughts and expressions. We wish you an enjoyable reading. The Difference Between UI and UX Design The definitions Let’s start with …

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Perfect Your Website With 3 Simple UX Research Methods

April 22, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Perfect your website with 3 simple UX research methods By Paula Borowska | UX Design | Apr 18, 2014

Tweet User testing doesn’t have to be difficult at all. I’m going to talk about three lean research methods that are neither extensive nor expensive to carry out but will in turn provide you with valuable feedback. The methods can be used for anything, test a landing page or test a whole mobile app. The important thing is to gather feedback: design for yourself, and only your point of view counts; design for others, and you need to hear their thoughts. Which method, or methods, you choose will have significant consequences for your design, and different methods are more suitable for different objectives. Experience sampling This technique is used…

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50 Outstanding jQuery Slider to Make Your Website Look Beautiful

April 19, 2014 / / 0 Comments

jQuery is one of the best JavaScript libraries that are easy to implement and display. One needs not to be a proper programmer or developer to use jQuery plugins, that are available for free in abundance on the web.Today, we are presenting you fifty classy jQuery sliders, to download and use, on your website for free. As I said, jQuery sliders are easy to implement and use, so you just need to paste the two code (one in Html head and other in the body) to get started. Just remember the paths to your .js file, its one of common mistakes designers make. So for developers, this collection will be a piece of cake, every slider in this list is provided with demo and documentation, you…

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