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Content Strategy / Search and Metadata

What UX Designers Need to Know about Conversion Rate Optimization

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Conversion is most often defined through sales, but it can also apply to clicks, sign-ups, repeat visitors, or any other metric that meets your organization’s goals. The real problem many organizations face regarding conversion, is that content is often still considered “the stuff that goes into the design.” Putting content at center stage means changing some of the fundamental ways we think about content in the design process and how it helps conversion. The principle of ‘form follows function’ states

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Findability / Search and Metadata

The Many Facets of Taxonomy

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This is the third in a series that has become real-life examples of taxonomies found in my kitchen. Part 3 of “Taxonomy of Spices and Pantries” looks at where and how facets can be used as multiple categories for content. Building the business case for taxonomy Planning a taxonomy The many facets of taxonomy Card sorting a kitchen taxonomy Tree testing Taxonomy governance Best practices of enterprise taxonomies Using my disorganized kitchen as an analogy, I outlined in part 1

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Discovery, Research, and Testing / Learning From Others / Process and Methods

User Research With Small Business Owners: Best Practices and Considerations

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The majority of our work at Google has involved conducting user research with small business owners: the small guys that are typically defined by governmental organizations as having 100 or fewer employees, and that make up the majority of businesses worldwide. Given the many hurdles small businesses face, designing tools and services to help them succeed has been an immensely rewarding experience. That said, the experience has brought a long list of challenges, including those that come with small business

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Learning From Others / Process and Methods / Visual and Visible

Unleash Your Visual Superpower!

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From start-ups to banks, design has never been more central to business. Yet at conference after conference, I meet designers at firms talking about their struggle for influence. Why is that fabled “seat at the table” so hard to find, and how can designers get a chair? Designers yearn for a world where companies depend on their ideas but usually work in a world where design is just one voice. In-house designers often have to advocate for design priorities versus

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