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A Proven UX Research Process to Redesign Your Website

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You can throw away years of incremental gains in UX and site performance—unless you have a battle-tested process. I’m going to walk you step-by-step through our company’s UX research process for site redesigns—the role of each aspect, how long each should take, and what, generally, each entails. Website redesigns are a huge risk.

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When and how to use HTML sitemaps for SEO and UX

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Websites weren’t appropriately planned by information architects according to UX best practices. This technique has been working as long as XML has been around. Alternative to mega menus Many sites attempt to fit as much as possible into their site navigation and end up having so-called mega menus.

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Beyond Reason: 8 Subconscious Marketing Techniques to Boost Sales and UX

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According to research by Harvard Business School professor Gerald Zaltman, up to 95% of our purchase decisions are directed by subconscious mental processes. System 2 uses up a lot of energy so it gets depleted easily. What follows is a number of examples outlining the effective use of these implicit motivations on the web.

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6 Customer Journey Mapping Examples: How UX Pros Do It

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Customer journey mapping is a widely used and impactful technique that can help you make better product, marketing, UX, and merchandising decisions. However, like other UX research techniques (including user personas ), there’s some vagueness and obscurity around how to actually create customer journey maps.

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Ecommerce UX Mastery: Beginner to Pro in a Blog Post

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We’ll answer the following question in concrete and comprehensive detail: how can we improve ecommerce UX? Why Care About Ecommerce UX? Improving UX affects many pieces of your ecommerce system. Driving it is the UX. By using the abbreviation ‘UX’ it just sounds new, but none of it really is.

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Website Information Architecture: How to Optimize for UX

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The goal of information architects is to come up with a structure and design that balances users’ desires with business needs. The goal is to come up with the architecture of the site. Think search page or a sign-up form. Two questions often come up about results. Do they have what I am looking for? Interaction pages.

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Ecommerce UX Mastery: Beginner to Pro in a Blog Post

ConversionXL

We’ll answer the following question in concrete and comprehensive detail: how can we improve ecommerce UX? Why Care About Ecommerce UX? Improving UX affects many pieces of your ecommerce system. Driving it is the UX. By using the abbreviation ‘UX’ it just sounds new, but none of it really is.

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