{"id":2746,"date":"2019-01-02T18:06:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T12:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2019-01-07T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T12:24:07","slug":"12-ux-design-rules-you-must-know-to-defeat-your-competitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mandmwebsolutions.com\/blog\/12-ux-design-rules-you-must-know-to-defeat-your-competitors\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Web Design Rules You Must Know To Defeat Your Competitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A website is all about user experience right? Undoubtedly, UX design is one of the vital elements of a website.<\/p>\n<p>User experience is one vast practice. It&#8217;s subject to change as well. A competent designer knows it well how pivotal is to comprehend the timeline and resources to UX development.<\/p>\n<p>When people use your UI, they definitely realize a vibe (either positive or negative). Then they come up with opinions. Believe us, this one impression holds conversion, profitability, and the success of your business.<\/p>\n<p>We have seen quite a lot in the previous year. And we really don&#8217;t know whether it&#8217;s easy to single some remarkable trends from the mint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are 15 essential rules that draw a bold line between a good designer and a great one<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look:<\/p>\n<h2>1. UX is not all about UI: Holding a &#8216;Design Lead&#8217; title might satisfy you. Wait a minute. Have checked out what others are doing?<\/h2>\n<p>There are actually plenty of people holding the same title.<\/p>\n<p>Time to burst the bubble. 53% of the designers swap UX with UI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPeople ignore design that ignores people.\u201d<br \/>\n \u2014 Frank Chimero,<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>What is the difference between UI\/UX design?<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s essential to know the difference between these two disciplines. Here we go-<\/p>\n<p><strong>UI<\/strong>&#8211; User interface is the space where the interaction between a product and the human happens, say for the landing page of the website<\/p>\n<p><strong>UX<\/strong>&#8211; User experience is an emotional reaction occurs after interacting with a product.<\/p>\n<h2>2. User research is necessary: There are designers in the industry with 15-20 years of professional experience in digital design.<\/h2>\n<p>These people know how to design a product for the audience.<\/p>\n<p>These people know how to evolve the craft with a shift of time and trend. This is necessary. Else, stagnancy won&#8217;t be an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>However, you have to know your audience well before start designing. Track the needs and the interests of your audience.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the users who will use the product right? Instead of the features, focus on the benefits of the products.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Focus on the content: It&#8217;s the &#8216;content&#8217; which decides the design of the website or the app. Deviating from the content will impact the user experience.<\/h2>\n<p>Do you know 46% of the users leave a site as they feel there&#8217;s a lack of message?<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t be brief with your content so that if anyone lands on your page find it difficult to understand the content.<\/p>\n<p>In this approach of UX design, there&#8217;s normally a typical hierarchy. It&#8217;s the hierarchy of the content that drives you developing the entire foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The key is to keep the content relevant and engaging.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Think from the user&#8217;s perspective: You are not the user. Are you?<\/h2>\n<p>Designers often mix that users will also have the same interface as they do.<\/p>\n<p>If you are the designer, don&#8217;t assume that you will use the product. This effect is described as &#8216;false census&#8217; in the study of Psychology.<\/p>\n<p>People who will use the product are from different backgrounds, different tastes, and different mindsets.<\/p>\n<p>How would you overcome this false census then?<\/p>\n<p>There is a technique to destroy this false census. \u00a0This is called &#8216;usability testing&#8217;. Show your design to your friends, family, or even colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>This could be a bit time-consuming. But trust us this is the best way to find out whether you are going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Showing off the design won\u2019t help:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen UX doesn\u2019t consider ALL users, shouldn\u2019t it be known as \u201cSOME User Experience\u201d or\u2026 SUX?\u201d<br \/>\n \u2014 Billy Gregory,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Showing off the design won\u2019t help: \u00a0Your back-end tech skill might be an extraordinary one, that never means it will serve your purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The only opinion that matters would be the end-users&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Accept this fact from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, technically you know the best. UX is part of software development. So, users need a little time to understand the design archetype.<\/p>\n<p>Try not to overdo it. Unless you have a sound interpretation, go by the existing UX principles.<\/p>\n<p>Always remember people tend to choose online really really fast. \u00a0Keep your design simple and engaging.<\/p>\n<h2>6. Play the ball with the short span design: \u00a0Designers are creative people. Naturally, they tend to spread out creativity across all the corners.<\/h2>\n<p>Too much information, too much boredom!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how the users think when they see a website.<\/p>\n<p>How do you get into UX design?<\/p>\n<p>We know you are already in the state of shock.<\/p>\n<p>Let someone concentrate on your work. \u00a0Just don&#8217;t provide too much information so that they get distracted.<\/p>\n<p>A 2015 study convoyed by Microsoft detected that the average human attention span has declined from 12 seconds to 8 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Already it&#8217;s 2019! Don&#8217;t you think this attention span has reduced as people are more time-bound than ever.<\/p>\n<p>Making designs simpler and cutting short the interface will pull more and more audience. \u00a0All information would be valuable and bang on.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Are you sure you know the right UX writing?<\/h2>\n<p>Do know you the correct UX writing?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t mingle UX writing with copywriting. There are a lot of similarities though.<\/p>\n<p>Because, both the jobs are designated to make the audience understand the product easily and well.<\/p>\n<p>You can simply wipe out this article. Then you miss out the latest UX writing style. Can you afford?<\/p>\n<p>UX design is done much before the product needs a copywriter. Technically the design team designs a webpage first. Then they send the screenshot to the marketing people in &#8216;Lorem Ipsum&#8217; space holders.<\/p>\n<p>Then copywriters appear to the scene to fill the space with information, instructions and may be a call-to-action at a later phase.<\/p>\n<p>People see the entire content (Design+Words). Sometimes, the content overpowers the design. This is where designers find the most amount of difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>For us, this is just like the run-of-the-mill. We have distinguished experts handling both the segments up to par.<\/p>\n<h2>8. The prototype appears first then developing the product: \u00a0This is another area where most of the UX designers stumble upon. They put all their effort to make the design look good because they believe it&#8217;s good.<\/h2>\n<p>This is one fine area where you need to prioritize the prototype. Else, it might get really stressful by the end.<\/p>\n<p>Prototyping is creating a product model before anything else so that it can be tested later. This actually helps you to test your proposition before you sit with your development team.<\/p>\n<p>The fun part is you can actually use multiple designs for prototyping. A popular prototyping testing is &#8216;rapid prototyping&#8217;. With this method, you can create future state product really fast.<\/p>\n<h2>9. Focus on the navigation: Focus on the navigation: Navigations are so important that a user should better find it easily accessible. You can make navigations tangible through simple visual queues.<\/h2>\n<p>Make the navigations logical as well. For instance, if a user clicks on a new page and it slides in from the left, then the original page appears on the right side. \u00a0Material Design uses paper as a source to layering, making the result very real and relevant.<\/p>\n<p>A navigation menu is something that keeps your audience more context-oriented. Get the navigations a better visibility s that the users navigate your site with ease.<\/p>\n<h2>10. A good designer has to be a good storyteller: \u201cThere are three responses to a piece of design\u2013 yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.\u201d \u2014 Milton Glaser<\/h2>\n<p>Unless you are not a good storyteller people won&#8217;t pay heed to your design. Describe your story through design which includes-<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inner-list\">\n<li>Structure<\/li>\n<li>Purpose<\/li>\n<li>Element<\/li>\n<li>Problems &amp;<\/li>\n<li>Solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember UX design should essentially have all these secret ingredients. A good, consistent story would generate 2X greater user experience.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s zoom onto the part &#8216;consistency&#8217;. &#8216;Consistency&#8217; can be provided by consistent visuals, fonts, color themes, and CTAs to name a few.<\/p>\n<h2>11. Personalize the experience: When common people connect with any design they are likely to relate it with human characteristics. It could be either &#8216;thumbs up&#8217;\/ &#8216;thumbs down&#8217;.<\/h2>\n<p>So, like or dislike are human impressions. Obviously, it comes from the connection which leads to their loyalty to the particular brand.<\/p>\n<p>If a website looks every other website, it will hardly turn as many heads as it wants to. Dull, impersonal websites barely attract any audience.<\/p>\n<p>A website essentially needs to be appealing. Work on your UX design to clasp a greater user base.<\/p>\n<h2>12. Users hate errors like anything: \u00a0Your design should have the space for user errors. Plan your design in a way so that if a user does any mistake it still runs the same.<\/h2>\n<p>For instance, search engines autocorrect user spellings. If they didn&#8217;t, searches wouldn&#8217;t be likely the same. Work on accessibility and functionality.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely, aesthetics is important but don&#8217;t neglect functionalities. It&#8217;s impossible to find all errors in a line while designing it.<\/p>\n<p>Errors come in the frame when users make it.<\/p>\n<p>How to fix the errors when you can&#8217;t foresee them?<\/p>\n<p>If any error occurs, provide the instructions to solve it. If a website or an app stops because a user made a mistake it&#8217;s a huge turn-off.<\/p>\n<p>To experience amazing web designs that build tremendous user experience team up with us. Experience the real power of design to influence the user.<\/p>\n<p>For digital assistance give us a call: 9830035775<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A website is all about user experience right? Undoubtedly, UX design is one of the vital elements of a website. User experience is one vast practice. It&#8217;s subject to change as well. A competent designer knows it well how pivotal is to comprehend the timeline and resources to UX development. 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