15 ways you might improve the experience for your users:
- Try not to create a learning curve for users, keep it as expected. For example for photos people tends to pinch-zoom it, please don’t change it.
- Try exploring new forms that have proved to be a good one. Example cards… From Tinder to inshorts … Many apps have leveraged this form.
- Try to keep your most valuable page/content a maximum 2-3 taps away.
- 4. Keep user inputs legible: Ex: check the scrolls are proper when the focus is changed. Check that your sticky divs are not taking up half of the space in mobile and another half by on-screen keyboard, etc.
- Web accessibility: guys guys guys! it’s 2019 it should be the first priority, especially for the web.
- D Dark mode: web or mobile, everyone loves dark mode these days and not just the nerdy ones.
- Try to resist yourself by putting as few buttons as possible, per screen (for the mob) since having too many of them annoys and confuses users.
- Don’t change the user navigation flow when you have large number of active users suddenly. Some apps are for occasional use, next time when the user comes in, user is lost.
- Avoid having multiple scrolls in the same direction, until unless you have multiple tables and nested tables maybe.
- Know your audience. Every design has a purpose and that is to reach the intended audience effectively.
- Be a Good and Bad User. A designer needs to think like a user. Think from a user’s point of view about what you need and where you need it. Secondly, think like a bad user who has a very less attention span, how the user will get irritated by bad UX.
- Users are more likely to notice items near the top of the page, in order of their importance, to prioritize content location according to business while keeping aesthetics.
- Design for color-blind users: greyscale mode could help.
- Don’t use double-taps on mobile devices. There is a huge difference between desktop and mobile interaction, so keep that in mind.
- Design, don’t Decorate: If it’s not usable then it creates a bigger issue than what cosmetics/beauty facilitates the user.
Still here? here’s 2 more as bonus
- Menu dropdowns are better vertical, not horizontal hover; it is much harder to scroll horizontally, especially in mobile mode.
- Blue text is understood to be hyperlinked, don’t add blue text to non hyperlinked text just to highlight it.
Disclaimer: I am not a strictly UI/UX guy I am a programmer who designs when no one’s else is there to do it so bare with me, also these are some of my personal experiences shared above
