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We put together 3 more UX Fast Tracks for you, groupings of recorded Virtual Seminars with a focus on an important topic from the world of user experience design. These seminars are a valuable resource if you're just starting out in web design and a great refresher for seasoned designers.
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People visit your web site for the content, not for the joy of navigating or searching. The key to great web content is to think about content as conversation.
Companies and agencies spend months and millions of dollars on how they'll deliver content online, yet allocate very few resources toward creating and governing the content itself. Our users deserve more than the last-minute content they often get stuck with. And you have the power to change that.
Write the engaging, vibrant, compelling content your site visitors are looking for. This seminar will give you lots of ideas, 7 nitty-gritty guidelines, and more to help you create great online conversations with your site visitors. Think of content as conversation. Great copy is like having a great conversation. If you write as if you were on the phone, you'll put people in your writing. You'll write short sentences. You'll write with logical order. And you'll have satisfied site visitors.
Steve Mulder, author of The User Is Always Right: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web, put together a comprehensive 90-minute online seminar covering the basics of personas.
Based on UIE's research into state-of-the-art development practices of today's most successful teams, you can learn the secrets to building robust personas in 30 days or less. In this presentation, usability and design expert, Jared M. Spool, will walk through an easy-to-accomplish 30-day plan for developing your own persona-based scenarios.
Tamara Adlin has developed a great technique to make that alignment happen, which she calls Ad Hoc Personas. Her method, borrowed from research-based personas, creates characters out of information the organization already has at their fingertips. They're inexpensive and easy to create, ensuring a customer focus from the very start of the project.
Designing for sign-up should be simple, yet it's often the most challenging area of your design. Do it wrong and you'll turn customers away. Do it right and you can build long-lasting relationships with users. Joshua Porter will show you how.
In this webinar, you'll see examples of how humanity exists in the design of products and services through humor, personality, and emotion. You'll explore how just a little extra design effort and thought beyond functional needs can enrich the experience, reveal the company behind the product, and forge enduring connections with customers.
How long should your form be? Is it best to break a form into multiple steps? What are the considerations for a two-column design? How do you handle international addresses? These are just a few examples of what countless others have wrestled with in their form design. When it comes to form design, we turn to one of the foremost experts in this area, Luke Wroblewski. Luke will share his treasury of common form challenges and their solutions. He'll divulge 6 important aspects of web form design that everyone wants to know more about.
With mobile quickly emerging as a viable and practical source of web based content, designers need to know how to adapt and keep up. In this lively, insightful seminar, designer and Tapworthy author Josh Clark walks you through the surprising changes in technique and perspective that mobile design demands. From first concept to polished pixel, you’ll learn to "think mobile". And you’ll be shown how to craft interfaces in tune with the psychology, culture, and ergonomics within the context of an audience on the go.
So you want your team to learn more about some other aspect of user experience design? Check out the original 3 curriculum-style seminar groupings:
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