E-Insight Digital Marketing Blog: Usability & UX

UX & Content Strategy – Seeing Is Believing

16 July 2015, Anne Caborn

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Anne Caborn discusses the relationship between UX and content strategy. It’s not just about what you say, but where you say it!

9 Reasons Why Google’s UX Obsession Should Matter To You

4 February 2015, Jonathan Saipe

Google PageSpeed Insights
Evidence clearly shows that Google favours a positive user experience from websites, and will offer rewards by way of an improved search performance. If you’re involved SEO, UX, design or content strategy/creation, then read on…

How To Improve Your Page Speed For Better UX and SEO

6 May 2014, Jonathan Saipe

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We expect web pages to load in the blink of an eye – be on a desktop or mobile device. From a publisher’s standpoint, this is crucial for good user experience and SEO.  To help you make your web pages load faster and more efficiently, take a look at this guide.

Argos – Gold Standard In Customer-Centric Systems

7 June 2013, Tracey Stern

Argos logoIt’s not often that I feel compelled to write a glowing brand review, but my recent dealings with Argos show a best-in-class case study of customer-centric systems working together to provide a fantastic end-to-end experience.

The 40 Best Error 404 Pages

1 June 2011, Jonathan Saipe

Error 404 pages – otherwise known as page missing or page not found – are an inevitable part of web design and search engine optimisation.

We’ve looked at lots of error 404’s and here’s our list of the best 40 we could find, scored in no particular order on the basis either good design, good copy, humour, originality, customer engagement or a combination of all of these.

Good user experience (UX) isn’t just for your website

23 November 2009, Rupert Hughes

When it comes to UX, companies’ internal systems (such as customer service or product management software) are often ignored, but a little investment here can reap big rewards elsewhere.

Using Web Analytics To Improve UX and Revenue

20 November 2009, Jonathan Saipe

Jim Sterne reports on the The Feedback Loop Gap where organisations have web analytics data but they rarely act on it.

8 Words For UX Professionals To Live By

2 November 2009, Rupert Hughes

“Don’t Make Me Think” and “First, Do No Harm”. Read Rupert Hughes’ view on the phrases that encapsulate what user experience (UX) is all about…

Ditch Your Principles For Great UX

19 October 2009, Rupert Hughes

Paretos principleThe much-referenced Pareto principle states that for many things in life, 80% of their effect is derived from 20% of their cause. This may be a great rule of thumb for running a business, but it’s a dreadful one for designing a user experience…

10 UX Tools and Resources

10 October 2009, Rupert Hughes

A quick check of Google shows 148 million results for “User Experience”, and more sites and blogs are popping up everyday. With so many to choose from, it can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff, so here are 10 tried and tested sites that we keep returning to for guidelines, tools and sources of inspiration from the world of usability and user experience.