Website Flow

Why Simple Website Design is The Best: The Scientific Reasons

Users will judge websites as beautiful or not within 1/50th to 1/20th of a second.
“Visually complex” websites are consistently rated as less beautiful than their simpler counterparts.

Moreover, “highly prototypical” sites—those with layouts commonly associated with sites of their category—that also had a simple website design were rated the most beautiful.

In other words, the study found that the simpler the design, the better.

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How to Design User Flow: a Step-by-Step Guide

User flow is the path a user follows through your website interface to complete a task—make a reservation, purchase a product, subscribe to something. It’s also called a user journey.

And it has a massive impact on conversions.

To maximize your conversions, you have to get the user flow right on your site. Do it by building a user flow that matches user’s needs.

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8 Effective Ways to Measure UX

Ever wonder why your site has a lot of visitors but not enough transactions, purchases, or inquiries? In this post, we look at marketing and UX metrics from a slightly different angle.

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Internal Site Search Optimization: Best Practices for Your Site

According to Econsultancy, up to 30% of ecommerce visitors use internal site search. Due to the increased level of purchase intent from searchers, they’re known to convert up to 5–6x higher than the average non–site search visitor.

Site searchers account for up to 14% of all revenue, and case studies have shown increased conversion rates of 43% from site search optimization.

Yet how many sites pay attention to site search? Too often, it gets ignored. This post walks you through opportunities to improve your internal site search.

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How to Design an Ecommerce Checkout Flow that Converts

Your ecommerce checkout flow is where the money is at. Think about it. Random visitors leave the site before ever entering the checkout funnel. Motivated buyers come here to finish their order.

Any small design improvement in your checkout UX usually has a direct impact on how much money your site makes.

An ecommerce site that I analyzed recently had a payment page in which 84.7% of the traffic proceeded to buy. I calculated that if we could increase that to 90%, it would result in 461 more orders and an additional $87,175 per month—23.9% revenue growth. “Small” gains can be huge.

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Landing Page Case Study: How We Improved Conversions by 79.3%

It took us six rounds of tests until we landed on a variation that was doing 79.3% better than the version our client had before coming to us.

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How To Identify & Improve Crappy UX Issues

Could you imagine a situation where 72% of your customers think that the content on your site was completely disconnected from what they really wanted?

What if you discovered that only a measly 14% of your customers actually valued a relationship with you and your brand?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but according to recent research done by CEB Marketing, this might just be the case. What’s even more frightening, is how highly marketers (that is you and me) think of themselves.

In the study, marketers believed that 44% of customers valued relationships with brands, and that the majority of their customers wanted to get content that showed how Their products fit into Customers lives.

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Designing Your Website Flow To Meet Your Conversion Needs

The four different media tools for communicating with your customer on the web are text, graphics, moving images, and sound. That’s it.

Those are the only tools you have to explain concepts, convey emotions, and create a satisfying user experience.

Take a step back, and you’ll see that what “converts best” is really just how these elements are designed and combined to get a user into a “flow” state, where each click comes more naturally than the next.

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