If you've already failed in your new year's diet, try your hand at a website detox with these UI/UX resolutions! It's all about slimming down, toning up and getting healthy.
Bean’s top 2015 website best practices all focus on simplicity, simplicity, simplicity:
- Go responsive — anyone not doing this these days will just be ignored by pretty much every human under age 30
- Offer mobile-first design, with progressive enhancement for larger screens
- Optimize accessibility to create a user experience that is fully accessible to all viewers — everything from supporting people with disabilities to serving up clear images for devices that support 3x+
- Emphasize UX with good typography, leveraging the increasing number of web-specific typefaces and typekits, like Google Web Fonts, Adobe Typekit, etc.
- Focus on long-form content as opposed to click-thru content
- Provide CLEAR, real time feedback during form interactions. Don’t force users to guess the formatting needed, and consider small additions like auto tabbing between fields and formatting as you type to be super user-centric
What should you cut from your regimen?
Bloat and laziness in web development will sap your site’s energy, presenting usability issues that get in the way of content access. Here are the worst offenders to remove from your web development diet:
- Which kind of clickbait do you hate the most? (#4 will shock you)
- Avoid the overuse of overlays and modals for survey, email sign up, whatever — anything that auto covers a page and puts up a roadblock to content
- Lose the Flash player requirement
- Farming ad clicks with lists that are presented one element per page
- Not optimizing images for responsive sites
- Autoplay anything
Got any other website detox suggestions for improved usability and user experience? Let us know in the comments!
By FluidNRG | The top 12 best practices & worst offenses for 2015 website design and development January 13, 2016 - 1:29 PM
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By webseology March 17, 2016 - 8:24 AM
I am happy to say this article very useful and thanks for sharing as you said everything perfect to web development strategy while getting Audience to website that makes engagement and helpful for site ranking as well.
By jeff September 20, 2016 - 1:33 PM
very good tip on the mobile first design. just because a site is responsive doesn’t make it a good converting site on mobile. contact info needs to be prominent on a mobile device where it might not be if the site is simple responsive.
By Ascent SEO September 26, 2016 - 1:22 PM
thanks layla! all still very valid for 2016.
By Vince September 27, 2016 - 10:59 PM
Responsive web design should be practice by web developers because the usage of mobile devices nowadays is increasing. Most users access website using phones and tablets. If the site is not responsive, they will immediately leave the site. UX is also an advantage to gain trust from prospect clients. If the user meet their expectation and enjoy your site, it is possible that they buy or avail your services.
By Selwa October 30, 2016 - 5:35 PM
Great post, and still very relevant almost two years later. I’m interested to hear more about the “focus on long-form content” tip. I know search engines seem to like authoritative content and long home pages, but not sure if that’s what you’re referring to here. Is the goal simply to minimize the number of times a user has to click and thereby make their experience more efficient and better (and more likely to convert)?
By Layla Masri December 19, 2016 - 9:03 AM
In a word of listicles and quick bait non-articles, many of our clients express the common concern that long pages are problematic because people don’t scroll. While this has never really been the case because users just so accustomed to scroll, this article provides some data to back that up:
http://uxmyths.com/post/654047943/myth-people-dont-scroll
By Site Above Solutions January 18, 2017 - 4:37 AM
Interesting topic! True indeed that how your website looks and works has a “say” with regard to the success of your internet market website. Aside from those useful tips you have given above, internet marketers should keep in mind that people nowadays are often busy and always on a “fast-paced” mode. Giving them what they need on-the-spot might give you an advantage versus that website with a lot of hyperlinks or whatsoever for people to go through before being on the page they want to be on.
By Heuristix September 6, 2018 - 12:24 PM
With the addition of other practices, these 12 practices are still valid in 2018.
Layla you’ve wrote master-piece back in 2015.