Author: Rebecca Vogels

5 Tips for an Appealing UI on Your Website

An appealing user interface can have a significant impact on the success of your application.

The challenge for web designers is thinking about how users are navigating the UI and which actions they expect to happen. This involves evaluating the skills and technical know-how which they can expect from their users.

We will give you a few tips about how to design an appealing UI and ensure a good user experience.

What gets captured the moment a user hits the problem

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Long-Scrolling Websites: Tips and Best Practices

Long-scrolling websites, i.e. sites that let you scroll down for an extended amount of time, have been around for years.

The reason? Users love them!

That isn’t about to change, which is why we wanted to give you some tips and best practices in this article. Because long-scrolling or infinite-scrolling alone doesn’t mean the user is going to spend a long time on your website.

Have fun reading and scrolling 😉

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5 Tips for Successful User Onboarding

A few weeks ago, we published a blog post introducing different methods of on boarding. Due to the positive feedback, we decided to go back and write another blog post on this topic. A lot of users only sign up for an application but never actually end up using it.

How do you convince more users to activate the application? How do you turn sign-ups into active users?

Today we want to share 5 tips about how to create a successful user on boarding experience. Let’s go!

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Emotional Design: For products we remember

Today, it is no longer sufficient to design a product that just works. Products need to have an amazing user experience to stand out from the crowd, to be successful, and to have a user base, who enjoys using them. In a nutshell: products need to be more than mere functional.

The designers Don Norman and Aarron Walter are asking this question for decades: How can design evoke positive and memorable experiences?

In this post, I want to explore the topic of emotional design. I will draw on research by Norman and Walter, and will ask why we enjoy using some products and others not. Hope you enjoy reading this post!

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User Acceptance Testing explained in 8 GIFs

Not long ago we published the post “Bug tracking explained in funny GIFs“. We had a lot of fun writing it and got a lot of positive reactions. Therefore, we decided to write another post about a topic that is equally relevant to us: User Acceptance Testing.

Many of our customers use Usersnap for User Acceptance Testing and we have written a few serious articles about this topic.

A report that arrives with the console log already attached

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If you are new here: User Acceptance Testing is often the last step in software development. The idea is to test if a product works for the user. If you want to read more about how to get started with UAT we have some interesting articles for you. If are just here for the fun, read on! 🙂

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8 TED talks every web developer should watch

TED-Talks are fantastic, short introductions into new topics and perspectives. Everyone with internet access can dive into new stories and new worlds.

There is a huge variety of these talks out there, so that it can be a challenge to get an overview of what’s out there.

Therefore, we put our heads together and collected the eight different TED talks which every web developer should watch.

So, have fun watching and let us know in the comments if we any great ones are missing!

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6 Tips For a Successful User Acceptance Testing Plan

A while ago, we published an article on “What User Acceptance Testing is all about” and a follow up article on “5 UAT Testing Types” or UAT examples and templates. Since then, we got a lot of feedback from users and people asking for further advice on the topic of UAT.

Therefore we decided to sum up all those inquiries and answer the following question: ”What’s the key to a successful User Acceptance Testing?”

We put our heads together and collected the following six tips for you. Enjoy reading & have fun executing your next User Acceptance Test Plan.

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11 Tips and Best Practices on How to use the Usersnap Bug Tracker

Bug Tracking is a constant endeavor that pays off over time. It has a positive influence on customer satisfaction and conversion rates, a topic I explored in an earlier blog post.

Today, I want to share a few tips and best practices on using the Usersnap bug tracker with you. I know it is our own product, but this article will hopefully still be helpful for you—whether you are already using Usersnap or want to try it out.

Either way – thanks for reading!

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18 Development Conferences to Attend in 2016: Be There or Be Square!

With April 1st just around the corner, we already managed to get through the first three months of 2016. If you’re like me, you probably are looking for new things to learn and new people to meet.

Conferences are a good way to catch up with new trends, meet thought leaders, and think about ways to improve your daily work.

The following is by far a complete overview, but rather a somewhat personal compilation of interesting conferences in the next months (in chronological order).

Let us know if you have found this to be helpful and tell us about your experiences, if you go to one of these conferences.

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