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E-commerce UX: An Overview of Best Practices (with Infographic)

74% of businesses believe that UX is important for improving sales, yet billions are lost due to shopping cart and checkout abandonment—when it comes to e-commerce UX, shoppers still tend to be considered last.

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Miklos Philips

Miklos Philips

Miklos is a lead UX designer and strategist with more than 18 years of experience in a wide variety of projects across multiple industries.

Data-driven Design and Generative Design – An Overview

Data-driven and generative design are two important design processes that can be exploited at the same time to create better product designs and user experiences.

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Shane Ketterman

Shane Ketterman

Shane comes from a background in architecture and design, information technology, and content marketing, and has a passion for UX research.

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What Is Branding? Everything Is Branding.

From personal brands to anti-brands, we’ve entered an age of incessant brand awareness. Branding is everywhere, but is everything branding?

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.

Who, What, and Why: A Guide to User Testing Methods

The fundamental purpose of user testing is to better understand and empathize with people who are the core users of a digital product.

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Jeff Bryant

Jeff Bryant

Jeff’s UX career has produced award-winning mobile applications, enterprise applications, and user-centric products owned by millions.

UI Design Best Practices for Better Scannability

Scannability is often an overlooked usability factor, but it is one of the most impactful. These UI design tips make it easy for designers to convert a brief visitor to a long-lasting user.

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Nemanja Banjanin

Nemanja Banjanin

Nemanja is a designer who creates distinctive and visually appealing UI/UX. He leads large-scale user-centric and result-driven projects.

Design Talks: The Pursuit of Value-based Design with Nick Disabato

This week’s guest on Toptal Design Talks is Nick Disabato who discusses value-based design, an expansion of the design process that focuses on specific business needs.

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Miklos Philips

Miklos Philips

Miklos is a UX designer, product design strategist, author, and speaker with more than 18 years of experience in the design field.

If You’re Not Using UX Data, It’s Not UX Design

Intuition and experience without UX data lead to a dangerous assumption: Designer knows best. We’re drawing a line in the sand: If it’s not based on user research, it’s not UX design.

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.

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Paula Barcante

Paula is an award-winning UX/UI designer, advisor, and illustrator with more than six years of hands-on experience in making complex interfaces delightful and user friendly. She has made a significant impact in large corporations, such as Amazon, Zillow, Google, as well as startups. Her mission is to create efficient, beautiful, innovative, and high-quality experiences for the greater good of society.
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