Friday, 8 August 2014

How UX can increase traffic and sales? UX should be an integral part of an organization's business strategy.




UX can Improve product interaction with user

Here is a typical Scenario.

Design = 95%, Feature = 85%, Functionality = 80%  Excepted Users = 70%  
Converted User = 10%!!!
Surprised? I am Not.

Let's see, a beautiful design, creative graphics, latest features and lots of functionality is enough to engage and attract user, can convert into business. A Typical Mindset of Digital Asset, Web, App...

Sample: A mobile app for travel reviews.
Design, feature and function is perfect to find a perfect holiday.
What If, the User is more interested in finding a flight, hotels... and so on all in one place with easy of few clicks or sweeps.

The real Scenario: The app is not fulfilling the user requirement,
How can we expect good traffic? We can say the experience of interacting with the app is unsatisfactory which in turn hits the traffic and conversion rate goes up in smoke.

Here, UX plays an important role to convert unsatisfactory experience to a satisfactory result.

Ok, So, what is UX?, and How can UX improve the preferred experience and increase traffic and sales.

What is UX?
User Experience (UX), is how a user feels about the product and service while they using it, does it serve the goal of a user, their time and emotion are valued, and how well they are able to interacting  with the product.

How UX can improve the experience and increase traffic?
UX focuses on all aspects of end-user, like why they are using it, what is the purpose of using, are they able to achieve their goal, what are the issue they are facing, what are the feature needs to be added, who are the user and how easily they can perform their task.

UX analysis and research can create a clear path and vision which needs to be followed to achieve the goals of the product and it reduce productivity and development cost.

UX Research includes
·         Surveys
·         User interviews
·         Focus group meeting
·         Benchmarking
·         Social analytics
·         Journey map

And other methods, Off-course every UX problem needs typical methods of research
Then come feedback, to improve the products loopholes, issues, bugs or implementing of new features if needed.

When user's feeling will be taken care of,  they feel attended, they understand new  features with minimal error and ease in performing the task. It will leave a positive impression on the user and create a brand value of the product.
Every user wants to use good product again and recommend others. This will create an impact on business, traffic, sales and increase conversion rate too.

Please share your feedback's, Edits, Insights: UX professionals of the world!

co-authored by Subrata (http://subratakar.com/)




Tuesday, 1 April 2014

It's time for Parallax!!

The web is behaving like the stock market. After responsive web design buzz now its time for Parallax design, why?

Its scrolling effect leaves a wow!!!!


Parallax design is a design technique in which background image moves slower than the foreground images.
This technique of scrolling background was introduced at 2d Video Game to create illusion. So, we can say that the concept of parallax design is derived from 2d video games.
  
Why parallax design is popular? What we can do with this technique?
  • Storytelling concept lets your visitor to walk through your story
  • Its leaves WOWWWWW! Impression by its page depth and animation
  • It keeps visitor engaged and encouraged to scroll the entire page
  • Its good for product demonstration as its scrolling and animation effect gives a live demonstration like video.
  • Creates a curiosity
  • Viewing by scrolling and its animation effect gives a new way of interaction

Downside! Tadah!!
  • Single long page increases the page load time.
  • SEO point of view:It is restricted to one set of meta information and one URL.
  • No compatibility to mobile site at least for now!
 I have gone through some creative and impressive parallax website.

  1. http://www.mitchlana.com 
  2. http://everylastdrop.co.uk/
  3. http://www.fk-agency.com/
  4. http://lostworldsfairs.com/atlantis/
  5. http://www.activatedrinks.com/
  6. http://www.soundscape.nl/
  7. http://www.bagigia.com/
  8. http://www.expresssolicitors.com/assets/nhs-payout-timeline.html
  9. https://www.spotify.com/us/
  10. http://www.nintendo.com.au/gamesites/mariokartwii/#home

    Co-authored by: Subrata