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Manchester Council launches successful site following research by Keep It Usable

Manchester Council recently launched a radically different, user-centred website following research with local residents by Manchester UX agency Keep It Usable. The result? An overwhelming success. Releasing a new council website can be tricky – it’s hard to please everyone and people don’t always have a good opinion of their local council. Get it wrong [...]

Consumer behaviour insights: Smartphone vs tablet

With the increasing growth of tablet devices it’s important to understand how people are using these devices and what they’re using them for so we can design the best user experience for them which will convert higher. In the past few years, mobile has been the primary focus for many businesses but as we’ve discussed [...]

A day of eye tracking at the Expo

Eye tracking is amazing, insightful, state of the art technology that enables you to literally see through people’s eyes. It’s most often used to increase sales on e-commerce websites, software or products but can also be used to measure the effectiveness of marketing campaigns before they launch. If you’ve never used eye tracking to gain [...]

iPad Mini Usability and User Experience

  With the launch of the iPad Mini you may be wondering whether you should buy one, especially if you already own an iPad. What are the usability and ux benefits to you? So, let’s have a look at what a smaller screen size means to your user experience.   One-handed usability Using the iPad [...]

The growing importance of tablet E-commerce UX

As iPhone shoppers decrease, the amount of people now shopping e-commerce sites on tablets has grown rapidly to 54.9%. Not only has iPad usage increased, but the average conversion rate is also 22.5% higher (visitors convert at 3% as opposed to 2.8% for websites overall). iPhone conversion is much lower, at only 1%. Average Order [...]