As a professional UX designer, my most complex web design project involved creating an application specifically tailored for firefighters. The goal was to develop a comprehensive tool that would assist them in gathering building and site information, conducting annual fire checks, and managing keys to various properties.
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In the realm of User Experience (UX) design, feedback plays a pivotal role in shaping and improving the products and services we create. It serves as a powerful tool that helps designers gain insights, uncover potential issues, and refine their work. This article explores the significant role of feedback in the UX design process, emphasizing its importance in achieving user-centric designs and fostering continuous improvement.
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In a world that is becoming increasingly digital, accessibility and inclusive design have become more crucial than ever. While we often associate disabilities with permanent conditions, it is important to recognize that anyone can experience situational or temporary impairments.
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Customer satisfaction is the cornerstone of a successful business. It drives repeat purchases, positive word-of-mouth recommendations, and long-term customer loyalty. User experience (UX) plays a critical role in determining customer satisfaction, as it is the way that customers interact with a product and the key factor in their overall experience.
UX design is the process of creating products that provide a seamless, enjoyable, and satisfying experience for the end-user. It starts with research and continues through design, testing, and launch, with the goal of creating a product that meets the user’s needs, wants, and expectations.
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I had the pleasure of unveiling the mysteries of the UX/UI job to Connie Clark from The West Australian.
Please see the article below that was published in Weekend West last month.
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As a web designer I always put user first. The easiest, fastest, most intuitive way of achieving a goal is my first priority.
Now when there is around billion websites (based on internet live stats ) any user looking for any product on the internet has a choice.
If your website is not on first page of Google, it’s slow, not intuitive, doesn’t work on mobile devices or doesn’t seem legit, user will close your website in less than 4s and never come back.
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Sometimes I feel like development on a PC is much easier than on Mac. My experience so far is that the Mac just throws stuff at you – mostly permissions but dealing with them is probably more painful for me as I am fairly new Mac user.
So I tried to install a fresh WP website and got a prompt that they couldn’t generate the wp-config.php file. Ive copied the code and manually placed the file on hard drive, just to finish the installation. Then, when tried to install some plugins got asked about the ftp details (look below image). As i am running my local development version and don’t have and FTP server installed I thought that there definitely is a way of installing everything without FTP server.
After successfully running XAMPP on my Mac OS X I have upgraded my system to Yosemite my MySql server stopped starting through my XAMPP manager.
After clicking restart all or just Start for MySql database its just going into ‘starting’ and then goes back to ‘stopped’.
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Funny how sometimes the investigation takes more time than actual fix itself.
As an only web designer in the company I need to deal with a lot of small bugs. Most of the time is browser incompatibilities or other small mostly CSS issues. But sometimes you come across something silly. This one was one of those things where fix is very simple but the process leading up to it was interesting. Thought I’d share. Read more