User experience or user Interface is basically the most important aspect of any website. If user will face any issues while browsing the website it means you are going to lose that user and chances are high they mayn’t return. This is a responsibility of all UX developers to create the user interface/experience in such a way, where user can enjoy the complete journey of the website and easily get information they are looking for. If the UX developer is be able to achieve that, it means they are building strong following of users for the website. We are going to share our experience that can help improve user interface for the website as a UX developer.
In 2019, optimal UX experience will be slightly different then last few years. You may need to update your skills to provide a better user experience for the website. As a UX developer we need to keep ourselves updated with newer technology, skills and be updated but that is a different topic to discuss. Few points that you need to consider as a UX developer to keep yourself updated with the latest UX trends. |
Use Smart Technology
With touch screen and IOT’s everything is getting smarter, so you need to consider smart capabilities of your system. You can use artificial intelligence as a smarter way that can help you to achieve better user experience.
Examples:
Examples:
- Voice search, means you need to choose an AI with more conversational approach and valuable supplement and check how it works for you. Users are using voice-based platforms, so you need to take help of this approach to improve the user interface.
- Image search is another technology that is most usable for any e-commerce websites and apps. So, you need to consider this as well.
- Chatbots can be powerful automated process to assist visitors/users by answering questions while navigating website. Chatbots can guide visitors/users in order to reach any specific page or information on the website.
Time-Saving Technology
Time-saving designs appeal to the ever-shortening attention spans of website visitors. If you want to set brand mark for your company, then a simple functional website is not enough, you must work beyond that. Website needs to be functional in a way that it’s functions seamlessly and immediately satisfy a users’ needs. It focuses on prioritized content first before anything. The design principal aim is to provide most relevant information in such a way that user must get all the information quickly without searching for the information.
In this, Navigations, headlines and contents takes users to the informational part. Call to Action (CTA), or forms used to take user on the next step of the customer journey.
Follow linear structures for better experience Instead of presenting every page into drop-down menu. Also, you need to provide most relevant information on the home page, this is important that as may not put irrelevant data on home page. Time-saving feature apply to both mobile and desktop user experience.
In this, Navigations, headlines and contents takes users to the informational part. Call to Action (CTA), or forms used to take user on the next step of the customer journey.
Follow linear structures for better experience Instead of presenting every page into drop-down menu. Also, you need to provide most relevant information on the home page, this is important that as may not put irrelevant data on home page. Time-saving feature apply to both mobile and desktop user experience.
Storytelling Animation
This is very powerful and effective approach if executed correctly. Crazy visuals and awesome interactive elements influence the brand positively. They can easily guide users to take actions and explain the complex idea quickly in a visual way.
There are many animations that you can use for your website that will be very effective for the user interface e.g. Transition animation by CSS3, HTML5 animation, Page Motion, Scrolling, background animation and many others. Also, you can use JavaScript animation in order to achieve what you are planning to do.
One more important thing when incorporating animation into a project that you need to find an optimal balance. It shouldn’t distract or overpower users.
There are many animations that you can use for your website that will be very effective for the user interface e.g. Transition animation by CSS3, HTML5 animation, Page Motion, Scrolling, background animation and many others. Also, you can use JavaScript animation in order to achieve what you are planning to do.
One more important thing when incorporating animation into a project that you need to find an optimal balance. It shouldn’t distract or overpower users.
Swift from Flat to Material Design
After release of Google’s material design, there is an on-going debate that, do we need to move on to material design from flat design? Probably, you will get different answers from different people. However, the flat design was originally developed for responsive designs where website content scales smoothly according to the screen size. The main benefit with the Flat design is, it works really well with responsiveness and loads pretty fast. As its loads faster, so people with slower internet also able access it easily.
With material design things changed now, and material design concepts are widely adopted for web design and apps. Material design provides animations, UI components, Color guides, Icons, patterns to improve the user-interface and many more options.
There are lot of reasons why you should start using the material design e.g. you can keep consistency in all the devices, it is mobile-ready (responsive), provide a sleek, simplified and engaging interface to the end user and many more that you can find on web. One more thing to mention here, material design is already accepted and industry standards are shaping up. Considering high acceptance rate the future of material design seems to be promising.
With material design things changed now, and material design concepts are widely adopted for web design and apps. Material design provides animations, UI components, Color guides, Icons, patterns to improve the user-interface and many more options.
There are lot of reasons why you should start using the material design e.g. you can keep consistency in all the devices, it is mobile-ready (responsive), provide a sleek, simplified and engaging interface to the end user and many more that you can find on web. One more thing to mention here, material design is already accepted and industry standards are shaping up. Considering high acceptance rate the future of material design seems to be promising.
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Navghan Modhwadiya is a web designer by profession, handling creative team of designers. With years of experience in Web Designing Field, UI/UX designs, Concept Development, Wire framing, Layout Design & Theming and related tasks are what he is passionate about. At cmsMinds we’ve a team of web experts to help you all facets of the project.