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Fixing Bad UX Designs

By : Lisandra Maioli
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Fixing Bad UX Designs

By: Lisandra Maioli

Overview of this book

Have your web applications been experiencing more hits and less conversions? Are bad designs consuming your time and money? This book is the answer to these problems. With intuitive case studies, you’ll learn to simplify, fix, and enhance some common, real-world application designs. You’ll look at the common issues of simplicity, navigation, appearance, maintenance, and many more. The challenge that most UX designers face is to ensure that the UX is user-friendly. In this book, we address this with individual case studies starting with some common UX applications and then move on to complex applications. Each case study will help you understand the issues faced by a bad UX and teach you to break it down and fix these problems. As we progress, you’ll learn about the information architecture, usability testing, iteration, UX refactoring, and many other related features with the help of various case studies. You’ll also learn some interesting UX design tools with the projects covered in the book. By the end of the book, you’ll be armed with the knowledge to fix bad UX designs and to ensure great customer satisfaction for your applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Be visual

Using graphs and making your report more visual helps the information become more digestible. We will now look at a few examples of how to present user research findings in a visual way.

Analytics

You might have gathered data from different analytic tools to better understand the user behavior. Organize this information, find patterns, and create graphs. Even information from surveys should be transformed into graphs and added to your report. And also add the results for A/B and multivariate tests. Usually, the tools you have chosen, such as Optimizely or VWO,  might offer graphic results that you can add on your report. Make sure to add your analysis on the results, explaining the reasons that you decided to...