Showing posts with label Web Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Web Design. Show all posts

Sunday, 27 May 2012

Different types of Questions You May Face in Web Design Interview



If you are going to attend web design interview for the first time, it is good practice to get yourself aware about the certain common question which you can answered fluently without any hesitation. In interview you got few minutes to impress the person and represent your knowledge of industry. Pre preparations of the interview always turn into good result. Chicago web design professional from Spinx, explains some of the common question which companies frequently asked to web designers. For experience web designer, a portfolio of past work can exclusively explain the ability of designer but for the beginner it is necessary to evaluate the skills and passion about work from below discussed questions. Instead of focusing on individual question, here we have tried to point out general category of question which helps you preparing for interview with larger aspect.

Questions Regarding Productivity and Efficiency 

Sometimes company may needs to hire efficient web designer along with having proficient skills to fulfill requirement. A smart web designer is the one who use the available tools when needed and improve the speed of work compare to one who has excellent core knowledge of programming HTML manually. There are so many things in web design which consumes more time of designer if done without use of tools. Prepare yourself aware about some popular tools in web design for validating of the code, error evaluation, website speed evaluation, HTML generator, CSS generator and base knowledge on working of those tools.

Question Which Elaborate Technical Skills 

This kind of questions might be not big concern for fresher web designer but if you are the experience one, you have to prove your technical knowledge which you can integrate into work. Easy questions like how to use specific element, syntax of tag, how to check errors to some hard questions regarding making website browser compatible, improving the speed of website, correct use of cache memory , use of Javascript, Plug-in and flash. True experience comes from working on various types of distinguish requirement which require learning new things in design rather than one with require using same methods or tools. 

Question Regarding Self Awareness and Improvement

Web designing, web development and internet marketing is the job where everyone needs to keep himself updated about new methods, tools or technology. A designer with excellent knowledge which can’t be utilized due to some major changes is worthless compare to designer with restricted but updated knowledge. If you want to have good carrier, you should have passion which encourages you to read and subscribe about great resource on the web.  It also helps the person to reveal your activeness and eagerness to new things. Knowing about resources would also make you differentiate from other candidates who have similar skills and ability with above discussed points.

Sunday, 20 May 2012

How to Become Web Design Ninja

If you have chosen web design carrier, at the beginning stage it might seems very exciting as you would get yourself introduced towards some creative style and design but after certain time, you would require to deliver creativeness and your own style in your work for good carrier growth.  At initial level, you may get good success and as your experience would grow, expectation of people who would hire you for your talent would also grow and they would expect something unique and different in your work. At this level, designing something from scratch wouldn’t work and you may need to develop full custom design from custom graphic design to custom layout design which reflects your imagination. Only professional Chicago web design expert with years of experience in industry dealing with different clients and their expectation can understand this circumstance of high payout Vs ROI in work. Here, our expert pointing out some points to become web design ninja.

Marry to Web Design Tools and Technology

In upcoming years, there would be various standard for designing website for different platform and environment. It may possible to have certain specification for perfect design in smart phone, laptop, tablet and all other gadgets, memorizing and implementing changes for all these standard is little difficult without use of any tools. Along with coding, there are other tools as well which help you in creating error free coding or testing your design form various prospects. More you aware of tools and technology, more you would become efficient in delivering good design with fewer efforts. So make yourself aware of latest tools which help for designing any stuff during your work.

Improve Curiosity for Insight

Generally web designer used to search for inspiration and have a look at all graceful things designed by other expert. Only few takes deep interest and show enthusiasm on what actually used to make that thing gorgeous and try to know base detail. So don’t just look at inspiration visually, try to see things from insight on its development.

Choose Web Design Idol

It is always good to have an idol whose works inspires you most and whom you try to follow for becoming one. Choosing an idol would continuously remind you what you want to become and what is yet to achieve and would help you staying on right track if somehow you get distracted from other stuff.

Don’t Limit Your Research up to Working Hours or Any Project Requirement

It is human tendency that until someone doesn’t pay us for doing good research or updating knowledge, we wouldn’t try to look at those things once even if it is available free and which can help us in our skills. Same rules apply to web designer, until we wouldn’t have requirement of creating something new with new software or tools, we wouldn’t try to use that stuff. When it comes to web design, there are various methods, tools; software available which may be new to you and you must give a try to look at the features and things you can achieve using that tools or method.

Develop Certain Standards in Your Work

Designed built by you or website themed by you, must retain certain quality standard which any other designer can easily abstract viewing your work. Try to improve perfectness in your work up to certain quality and inherit those standards to all projects or website for which you may work. Following this point would improve your professionalism in work.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

Takes Care of Your Visitors – Keep Them Away From Frustrating Designing Rain

Website visitors are precious for online business to increase business sales, and leads. Every website visitors are business potentials so it is a duty of every web designer and website owner that they should take extra care of their website visitors by creating a user experience design.  

Designers from Spinx – Florida web design said, to establish a great user interface designer should have to avoid some common web designing inaccuracy that frustrate the visitors of the website.

Make it Load Fast: Slow loading website is the most frustrating thing for website visitors, no one like to wait for a long because in this tough competition of internet business there are to many competitors websites are their so rather than wait they like to switched to others website.

Too Many Popup Windows: Too many popup windows mystify the website visitors, in some designs we found new popup window open on every click, in this condition visitors got confuse or irritate because they are going to click on particular web page to get some service and they land to other webpage in new popup window. To design a proper website designers should avoid these things.

Links That Are Not Working: Visitors surf website in intention of getting some information but at the same time when they click on any link and found the broken links and 404 pages than it become headache for them. They close the website and never come again on the same website that is not fulfilling their requirements.

Intricate Navigation: Navigation is a way to go throughout the whole website at the same time intricate navigation system on website confuse visitors and they feel like they reach at unknown place and can’t find the way to go.

Over Flashy: Here, we are talking about the website that only believe on presentation and striking look but never provide much information or any other useful data but every website designer should keep in mind one thing that attractive look catch the user’s eye but at the end 90% people are seeking for information so only look without any useful things waste the time of visitors. More flashy websites takes a long time to load and I is not search engine friendly so with the over use of flash designer never create a proficient user interface.
 
Over Information: It is good to provide necessary information on the website but some webmasters put more than enough information without properly organized it and cluttered the whole design with too much info which annoys users to read.

While design a website, designer should think like a visitors and than try to keep them visitors away from the frustration of messy design.  

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Monday, 30 April 2012

Accurate Design Equal Success

Website of business makes available a way to get success in this competitive internet business world so we can say that the victory of online business is depending on the website.

Here, in article this article title designer from Spinx – web design Atlanta company said that Accurate Design Equal Success and it is depend on designers how precisely they design a web presence for different business firms and organizations.

Design Should Tell Story: Design of website should tell story of business, design a website in a way in which different designing elements pass the message of business.

Striking Visual Impact: Impress visitors visually and create attractive visual impact in their mind helps to increase website visitors.

Proper Navigation: Navigation on website endow way of website, when visitor came on website which have complex navigation than it is same as a person reach at unknown place and can’t find a way to go. So it is suggested to create proper navigation without any complexity on website so that visitor can easily reach at their intended place.

Create Talkative Design: When user came on website they start communication between different designing elements such as they talk with website navigation to reach at intended place, talk with images and try to understand what it say, which message it is trying to pass.

Optimize Properly: It is necessary to optimized website properly so that it can be easily visible in major search engine result page. It is helpful to increase business sell and leads.

Usability: Design should be user friendly so it gives best experience to users for visit website and they can easily use all web services offer by website.

To achieve success in online business, it is compulsory to have website which have proper balance of eye-catching look, user friendly and search engine friendly website design.

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Saturday, 7 April 2012

Rules For Accessible Website Design

When you are designing your website, there are different prospect where you need to observe the accessibility or reach of your website. Clearly visible website to visitors may not be accessible by search engine crawler which can become obstacle getting deserving benefits of online marketing and SEO efforts. Same way website which provides flexible access to search engine may be difficult to navigate for users. Even websites which satisfies both users and search engine may perform poor on other device. So web designers have to keep these aspects in the mind while designing and developing website.

Web Accessibility in Terms of Visitors

Designing website, your users are more important than anything which may get you benefits in terms of marketing your business. Having good navigation and simple design are not just two standard for accessible website. If you have large products or content, you should evaluate how easily visitors are able to find the content they have been looking for. You should evaluate whether your search function provides best matched result as search query entered by users. Is your website appropriate for different kind of audience distributed in age, gender and geo location?  Does it provide same experience viewing on different browser? Nowdays desktops and laptops are not just two device which visitors can use to view your website, smart phones .So we have to evaluate all possible questions and issues which may cause with users prospective and should adopt the solutions to avoid these issues.

Web Accessibility in Terms of Search Engine

Confirming all those points from users prospective, you should give second priority to search engine crawler and see whether they are able to scan and index different components and objects of your website. It is possible that flash embedded content seems to be clearly visible to users but search engine crawler may be inefficient to index that content which lost you benefits of your quality content. Dynamic websites which have thousands of pages and have good frequency at which pages get deleted and new pages get added, we have to confirm that new released pages get indexed quickly with use of interlinking. If you have used fancy elements like flash, animation, video or audio, you must observe whether it takes too much time to download and load which can be difficult for search engine crawler to index. All these aspects should be taken care of in your site with prospect to search engine crawler.

After completion of website designing at New York Web design firm, we used to take care of above discussed points for making website more accessible.

Friday, 30 March 2012

Does Creative Design Add Value in Success of Website?

Sometimes web designer misunderstood the concept and lead themselves building website design which is different from others with hope that it would stand out from its competitors. Creating a unique design or creative design doesn’t mean to use elements or using different web components from others. A low performing website with prospect to its users wouldn’t get accepted by marketers. Objective is to find a solution for website design which gives more flexibility presenting the same concept or functions to users than your competitors. So real meaning of creativity lays in unique concept not the fanciness of color combination or use of trendy animation. 

True success of website design can only measured by the level of user engagement of website. You may have different purpose or business objectives of your site which you integrate with use of different web components on different pages, your task is to measure how users interpret with those components or objects. For example, booking flights, getting information about flights timing, subscribing for future discounts and getting information about different flights are some of the main tasks of online travel booking website. Your task is to design interface for each purpose which is easier to use compare to others and measuring the success of each. Whether you use flash, JavaScript, Ajax or any other media queries, the output should be a design which provides simplicity and brings more success. 

Even when you finish implementing unique design, you must not adopt the scenario of trusting blindly on its success. You should show eagerness on whether it gets the real success for which it has been built. If your objective is to bring visitors attention to specific portion of website where you have listed special products, landing on that page that should be the first thing which should be noticed by your visitors. Same way creating trendy flash navigation, you must analyze how much users actually use that navigation to surf on your website. If you have changed entire theme of design, you must measure what changes it brings in its success compare to previous design. In short, you want your visitors to spend more time on specific portion or components of website where you have spent extra time & put extra efforts  after its design and difference in success ratio should be reflect clearly in your analytic data. Avg. time on site, reduced bounce rate, top landing pages are some of the matrices which you should have a look to evaluate the success of your creative design.

Our Chicago web design experts always focus on creating design which gets success rather than creating one which looks more fancy or charming. At the end, clients want to see success which would be measured by analyzing how convincing your design is in satisfying business objectives.

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Importance of Case Studies in Website Designing

There is no fixed way or method has been established by web design expert for designing website. One can start by drawing hand scratch on paper initially or one can start with designing wireframes to see whether all the things specified by clients set into that wire frames. Some lazy designers also surf for free web template and make some modification in same template to give unique look without any hard work and represent the design to client. Many designer like to finish giving style for large elements and them combine the entire one and some people start designing in their software and may follow good sequence to complete the design or process.

With prospect to clients, your final visual design would be counted as result regardless of what method or software you have used for designing. With point of web designer, you need to brainstorm on different possibilities and difficulties you get completing the job and need to follow the one which seems of giving promising output in less efforts. Here we are talking about executing smart work in well established manner which require less rework after reviewing by clients and which also make good appeal of your skills & creativity.   

Creating web design case study can be one possible solution for designer which requires learning and researching about business and it’s prospective. You may require making list of basic purpose of website and kinds of audience targeted with that purpose, types of products or services of business, listing all web design elements and components you would use to represent those purposes and selecting the one which gets better success with the purpose for which it is being used.

As New York Web design expert, your job doesn’t get finished creating case study of website design or you have to keep researching on how to follow up different possibilities of which you have thought of integrating in design and have to evaluate whether your used element works well with the desire of getting success or not. At initial level, there might be only few requirements which you can add but as you start designing, few may get added and few may get deleted and you should be ready with your research on how to tackle with those changes.

Monday, 5 March 2012

Three Main Features of Simple Website Design

From fancy website with flash intro, creative video intro and moving animation, trends for designing website is being shifting towards making simple website. Business owner and marketers have realized for better performance of website, simple design is necessary instead of one which requires more time to load and provide poor experience to visitors. Due to shift in platform like tablet, IPad and smart phones, making website compatible for mobile and web browser become more complex and using those trendy elements in design, it was almost impossible to inherit the same features in mobile website. End users are the ultimate persons to decide which website they like to choose among good one and from survey and feedback of these people, one with simple design clearly stands out in competition.

With varying audience and their shifting paradigm of accessing web and viewing website with use of different device and platform, it is tough task to identify and recognize what device your targeted audience is using. You might be missing huge bunch of visitors if you are making your web design compatible with keep in mind few specific platforms. Furthermore tracking of your visitors and device agent require complex custom tracking solution which may cost you big amount. So all you need to do is to take care of different popular platforms and devices, making changes in your design for delivering better experience and hope for the best. When you don’t have budget for implementing individual mobile website which needed to take care of three size of screen, medium size tablet, small screen smart phones and large screen desktop or laptop, our expert at web design Chicago suggest to adopt simplicity in different way to give up to mark performance in different environment.

Simple Layout 

What is the structure of layout whether it single column or multi column? When you have two column structures, in small size screen the data and content in second column get set at bottom of the first column and can provide single layout column layout which is good feature for mobile website. So all you need to do is to detect mobile agent and call CSS file which you have developed for small screen environment. Not all the smart phones come with touch screen utility, so make layout as simple as possible.

Use of White Space 

In my 6 years of experience in providing web design Chicago service, I got many clients who wanted to add as many things as possible in their website which lead to stuffing elements and objects in web page and which ultimately looks ugly. When there are so many objects to add, you have to do little study about its placement, size and style. You would see use of white space at higher priority in list for making web design simple and integration too many objects is controversial on its usage. So educate that kind of clients and make them realize the benefit of white space to reduce the no. of components and objects to integrate.

Light weighted files
 
Forcing your visitors to wait even for few seconds lead them to visit some other place which provide better speed performance than yours. At the end it is all about speed and with light weighted images and other support files, you can improve the speed of website. There are different ways available to compress files and improve speed, make sure your developer have implemented those standards for your website.

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Web Designer Resources: Use of A/B and Multi Variant Testing

What a goodness if we could be able to measure the performance of one layout over other or impact of individual element presents on web page and could evaluate the importance of each based on visitors behavior. As an online marketer, it is better to trust your visitors instead on thoughts of web designer on better acceptance of your website. When you spent good amount on implementing specific object in your website like introductory video or animation, it is extremely important to know whether you are getting good response of your visitors that you deserve on investment. More than investment, you must know whether that thing doesn’t make bad impact on your visitors.

Previously when there wasn’t any method exists to analyze user behavior on new design, people used to perform lab usability test where they recruit some people and kept them in room with one mirror which is visible from single side. People were asked to perform certain task on website and expert on other side of mirror used to keep eye on the problems people have been facing while completing the task and used to evaluate important decision based on observation and communication with people. Due to high cost of lab and recruiting people, this method didn’t work well. Hence your visitors would view your website in different browser and platform so lab based test wasn’t the right scenario of design evaluation.   

To replace this method, two tests have been discovered which are A/B testing and multi variant testing to extract some important data from analytics to take decision. Below is the quick info about it.

A/ B Testing

Two web pages A and B which are different with point of its design are compared with each other. You are supposed to present these pages to your visitors for equal amount of time. Based on performance driven by each web page, you would choose the one with better result. You may observe completion of conversion rate, depth of visits, visitor loyalty and completing of custom goal defined by you. The test is efficient at evaluating the outcome of web page not single element and you can apply this test when you need to select the design submitted by different web designer. Google website optimizer is free tool to perform this kind of test.

Multi Variant Testing 

When there is a need of testing different variant of same element on web page, MVT Is more preferable compare to A/B. If you have created different things like introduction video, animation, promotional text or use of images to implement same call to action function, you measure the success brought by each variant and select the one with better statistics. Different variant are tags with special tags or scripts for identification and dynamic page with changing variant would be showed to visitors. Implementation and measurement of MVT testing is quiet difficult and expensive as it evaluate each element and difficulty grows if you increase the total no. of elements and their variants to test. 

For our premium client at Chicago web design firm, we apply this kind of testing on design of special landing page and suggest the best layout based on visitor driven data instead of estimation of designer. When you are going to spend thousands of bucks on promotional campaign, you must prefer to test different variant of its landing page to get the maximum benefits of you money that you deserve.

Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Three Things Web Designer Should Develop to Keep Frustration Away

Whether you are web designer, developer or online marketer, what things can frustrate you in your carrier? Most of the time dissatisfaction arrived not by getting paid less than you deserve but knowing that you can deliver great with your skills but not being able to get enough productivity for doing great. Inner satisfaction on your own work is required for better achievement in carrier whether in form of salary or appreciation of your work from your boss. Remember you won’t be able to do great things until you won’t feel good and satisfaction and achievements is the way to feel good and knowing that you have monopoly on certain task in your industry.

Web design is such an industry where everything works based on client’s appreciation and feedback no matter whether you like your design or not your client must. You don’t have any choice when big head from the company says he wants to have high animation regardless of the time it require to load and what impacts its make on website performance in terms of user experience. Frustration can come from any corner. Sometimes you get good feedback from the layout built in less time and less creativity and bad one for the design which takes lots of efforts and considerable time. No matter what’s your client scenario, as web design Chicago professional you must develop certain things in your skills and knowledge which helps you keeping frustration away from you and prepared you for accepting any kind of challenge in your task. Below we are highlighting those things for which you should always look out for. 
  
Creativity & uniqueness 

These two things define the work and capacity of website designer. In your carrier, you would get asked kind of questions like what unique do you have to offer? Or what things on you are good at? At the moment, you must be capable of providing answers in form of your past work instead verbally. Uniqueness in your work would stand you out from other web designer and creativity is the only things which help you to create unique work. There are good web designs Chicago blogs which can become your continuous source of inspiration to deliver great design stuff. Whether it is task of product, brochure, logo, magazine or website design, your work must reflect your shadow.

Updated knowledge

If you have couple of friends working as web designer or if you are the part of online web design communities, ask them have they checked all updates of HTML5? And see what answers you would get. For outstanding performance, you must keep yourself update about latest stuff in the Industry whether it is updates in any web design software or tools or updates in the way people used to design and integrate graphics in website, you must have heard the things.  It would be great disappointment knowing that no one follows the process you are following or the tools you are using because they are outdated. So always keep yourself aware of new things.

Sharing

At last, whatever you have learned from your past work or whatever you had absorbed for improving above two things, you should share it with other people in the industry. It would help you in two ways, first it would create your branding and marketing and second appreciation from fellow web designer would inspire you to work harder for continuous improvement.  

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Hobbies Web Designer Should Develop to Improve Skills and Knowledge

Only few people get chance to or able to make their passion as their profession. It is the simple motto for having successful carrier. If you develop paradigm of considering your profession as your passion, single obstacle would dare to come into way of your success. Sometimes developing certain hobbies in your life can also help improving your knowledge which may help in your profession.  In web design industry, it is necessary to keep yourself updated with current design trends, tools and popular application. Here we would discuss about the three main hobbies can help in developing great web design carrier. 

Watching animation movies 
Creativity and inspiration are two main things which can boost your carrier as in this niche. If you have just jumped into this field, watching animated movies can become great source of inspiration for you. All you need to do is, to watch that movie with web designer’s eye and need to extract important concept from those animation which might build by group of Chicago web design professionals. There are two benefits, one it would provide relaxation and enjoyment and you can also get benefits in your skills.  You have to think if you had objective of designing same animated character of movie, how you would have created? And which way you might have followed?  Researching on this would encourage you to learn about new things which you might not be aware of. 

Reading Cartoon comic or magazine 
It is the place where creativity gets birth. Some magazine or news papers have special section where they have displayed funny jokes with visual presentation of cartoon character. One can understand the concept just by having a look at that character’s action. You can use the same concept in your web design. When you are designing a landing page or specific portion in web page which focuses on special campaign, representing objectives of the campaign or intermediate steps with sense of comic would get more success. When you have challenge of holding your visitors through your design, comedy presentation is one of best way which would motivate people to dig little deeper. This is why viral marketing has lots of popularity and design is a key factor for its success. 

Curiosity for insight 
Internet is a great place to search for great things on the web. Web designer’s job is little bit challenging. Lots of research about the industry and other factors require creating perfect website design which got accepted by client. Even after accepting your design by client, it may possible that if he found competitor’s websites which looks better than yours, there may be chance of negative thoughts in his mind which leads to dissatisfaction. So you have to design a website which competes well with other websites from different point of view like speed, look and visual appeal.  All these requirements can be fulfilled with inspiration from others. Web design is divided in various elements and you can’t be expert in each. If you found good graphic or design on the net, you must show inner curiosity to design the same thing with your skills and knowledge. You must motivate yourself to research how to develop it. In short you have to view the web with keep in mind improving your web design skills with great source by others. Web design blogs, forums, portfolios sites are good places to start with.  

Meeting people with similar interest 
Joining web design forums, meet up groups, participating in events would introduce you to bunch of people who have similar interest as yours. Sharing your skills, problems, discussing about tools would help you to create your own professional network which would help you to develop your skills and keep you updated about new things in the industry. It is not necessary to give physical presence you can still connect online.
At our web design chicago firm, we used to conduct interviews with expert and try to extract the things after their success and above post is an extract of those interviews which we have written for our web design staff at Chicago.

Thursday, 19 January 2012

Funky Web Design Ideas to Use For Your Next Website Design

Are you thinking of designing something unique which you haven’t tried before? Want to break all the limitation and expert recommended ways of designing website?  Want to try your creativity without worrying about the time it will take to convert in your design? Want to build design which focuses on its look rather than its performance or user experience? If answers to above questions are yes, here I am mentioning some cool ideas you should try designing your next website. Generally web designers fight between the time and cost of creating design which have been specified by client and we have to take care that it must get finished in desired deadline given to clients. 

As web design New York service provider, we have to take care of audience of the business for which it is being designed, size and quality of graphics and file used to improve its speed, performance of website with different analytic matrices which can get impacted by its design and all other things which forces to change the design but not related to its design. But when it comes to showing off personal design skills and talent of imagination, you may not think about all these points and create the way you think or like most. Implementing your own portfolio sites can be designed without bothering about above mentioned points. Have a look at below concepts for design.

 
Forget about all the perfect things you may know or have used in your we design like limited no. of color to use, no. of columns in grid, space between two objects, alignment between things, well placed navigation and back ground in design. Above website is an ideal example of design with imperfectness hence creative.

 
You may have seen websites equally divided in two columns vertically, above website has design which is divided in two columns horizontally. If you are looking for an example of simple website design with best UX design, this is the website you should check for. All the elements introductory text, header banner, navigation are clearly highlighted by following web 2.0 standard. It is easier to design with point of expert bur makes great impacts on visitors. 


If you want to have a look at design which utilizes available space efficiently, above is the website to check for. It represents different things clearly with use of latest web design concepts like typography, charming texture, Icons, trendy navigation, info graph and web 2.0. Due to its flat design structure, it would perform well in mobile devices as well without having need of developing separate mobile website.


Only few web designers can integrate their creativity in their design and can donate in success of finishing business objective through design. They have used hand drawn images and text in design and which is the thing which inspires me best. It’s the design without use of any trendy design software and focus on manual hand drawing which might be time consuming. It uses two colors which are contrast to each other and gets position in my list of websites with dark color.

Some other websites with different concepts and cool features.








Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Infographic - New Way to Improve Website Performance Through Website Design


When website design is being measured by its performance, creativity, use of trendy elements, exciting modern design and all other efforts doesn’t require. It would be directly calculated by user experience and behavior of website and important data matrices for observing overall traffic. In different ways of holding your visitors on the website which includes video presentation, explanation of your marketing message through moving objects or creative video presentation, info graphic has made remarkable use by some experts.

Previously UX concept was not that much popular and people used to ignore the user experience. There was a competition of making unique website design which focus on business presentation and branding. Due to some advance analytics matrices and the way paradigm shift from beautiful design to performing design, marketers and business owners started finding a way to improve website performance and to fulfill it, new concepts of design have been introduces. Responsive design, typography are the result of the efforts and research in this direction. 

When visitors first lands on your website, what are the things which force him to wait and read the content. With thousands of new websites and large competition, traditional way of representing content written by some expert doesn’t seems to work anymore. You have to represent the same content creative way which forces your visitors indirectly to read and notice what you are offering. You don’t want to be another service provider with plenty of discounts on festivals instead; you want to show off that you are different and unique with help of website design. 

As I have said before, infrographic is the new concept many web designers are integrating in their design to build better performing website. In this, the same content and concept get displayed with small drawing blocks with are connected with each other with arrow lines. When you have content which can be described in the sequence or procedure of main process, Inforgraphic seems to be more performing. At Spinx, New York Web design firm, our design experts have conducted small testing in which we have designed two layouts for displaying content and tested these two layouts with A/B testing. In first we have displayed content in traditional manner and other with help of inforgraph. We have observed reduces bounce rate, increase in average time on site, more conversion of web page with this diagram. Based on this test, here we are displaying some of the best infrographic diagram which you can consider for your design. These diagrams don’t suit for all the type of content but for the content which can be divided in certain group of sequence and flow. 

Friday, 23 December 2011

Need of Usability Testing in Website Design & Development


After deciding starting of your own business and to fulfill the objectives and profit you would get through your business, you would think of having rocking website to impress your visitors and to get maximum exposure of your marketing efforts. With keep in mind the high reputation of your business that you want to build with the website, you would get your design and development work from best expert in the industry to confirm that everything goes smooth and as thought. You would prefer high animated banner or flash as an intro, modern website design to compete with big player, easy development of complex function of your business as you would have hope for future profit, and you would take care of each and every small things which is going to be added in your website. 

But wait what if the things on which you have spent money blindly after its development wouldn’t require or being obstacle in performance of your website. If someone UI interface expert would suggest simple design rather than stylist one which was very costly and what if you would require to change all the things on your website because they are not require anymore or stopping the success of your website in online marketing. I don’t know about you but it would be extremely disappointing for me that even after spending valuable time and money you came to know that the things you had done or you were doing was the waste of time and money. 

To make sure that you don’t fall into above described situation, usability testing of your website design is important before making the decision of investing money on specific things. In usability testing, you need to think of real time behavior of your visitors when they would visit your website. You need to think in advance that what action your visitors would perform on addition of any objects and functionality on your site and what result you would get. You need to test whether there is a good ROI of implementing specific entity on website or not.

At Chicago web design firm, when we have requirement of re designing website, first we make an analysis of existing design by our data analytic experts. Based on the analysis and extracted data, we suggest the things which gets good ROI in new design and applying usability testing on redesigning has saves lots of money and our efforts.

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Ultimatum of Understanding Web Design With Point of Client, Visitors and Designer


Client who is asking for building a web design for his business, users whom client will target and web designer who would code the entire layout and make it possible to deliver whatever is imagined and specified by clients are three different audiences in process. Each would provide different opinion as per their usage. A web design in terms of client is a layout which he likes most and by which he wants to impress his audience and represents his brand online. In terms of users, it is store on which he would buy products or services and which he wants all the functionality simple to make final purchase. With aspect to designers, it is the challenges and technical analysis which he needs to convert into working design the way which is most appreciated by client without any review. Website designed with keep in mind all three audiences would perform best in this competition era of internet marketing. It is challenging task for web designer on delivering a design which satisfy both users and clients and it is necessary to have Deep understanding and observation of different requirement. 

A good design can’t be made of combining different art from expert in the industry like graphics or banners from best graphic designer, illustration from best flash programmer and so on. Even merging all these creative arts can’t create good design which performs well. It would surely create decorative design which may get good appreciation from art lovers but not from the actual audience for which it is intended to be built for. Expert at New York web design firm reveal the secrets factors for making performing design for your business.

Experimenting with Different layout
Sometime it is very time consuming to develop different version with aspect to the way you have display and implement different functionality of the website. A single link or navigation can be displayed with both simple text and image links. You have to keep experimenting with different things like placement, color combination, placement of navigation and other factors. Experimenting with your own design would make you more creative.

View your design from user point of view
For a moment Forget that you are web designer and forget about all the technical things you knew so far. After completion, view your design as normal viewer and use different functionality and estimate the difficulty you get using website and try to list out all the problems you face while accessing website. This way you would be able to provide more user friendly design.

Keep the consistency live
When you get some changes from client after completion, try to keep the consistency in design even there are some major changes to be implemented in design. If you would get disappointed and would change the entire layout in design without maintaining consistent design, more re work would keep you busy in implementing perfection. 

Give bad critique on your own design
Think that the design developed by your enemy and you have chance to give your opinion. Giving bad critiques on your own design would motivate you to implement more perfection in each and every small thing regardless of its importance. At the end you would deliver output on which no one would be able to give negative feedback.

When we have objective given by web Design NYC firm, we try to convert the complex functionality of website to simple user interface and we follow above points to give best satisfaction.

Monday, 7 November 2011

Designing Vibrant Facebook Fan Page For Your Business

One simple great idea and its correct development can lead to great profit you might not have imagined before. Facebook it selves is the best example for success with one simple idea of connecting all college students with their private id to create friends network which have been described in the movie “Social Network”. As we all are aware of the popularity of FaceBook and its market value. Well I am not here to discuss the history of the FaceBook but while observing its growing fame, I want to discuss my experience working in Web Design Chicago firm of creating business page at FaceBook.

Rise of social media marketing have forced businesses to shift their promotional activities from traditional search engine to active events on social media sites. Giving PPC advertisement on various search engines or attempting optimization of your website for plenty of keywords in popular search engine is not enough to get desired success, especially when your business is dying at maintaining the cost/revenue ratio. Social media sites have given smart solution for advertisement which gives better result at lower cost compare to other advertising media and platform. Along with paid advertisement, there are already options available for developing brand name and circulation free way.

Facebook fan page is one of the features which became mandatory to have for all business. Only creating your business profile will not work the way you want. Effective utilization of different functionality provided by Facebook is mandatory to get maximum exposure of your efforts. Facebook fan page is one of the key features which plays important role in promotion. With different client requirement, Chicago Web Designer shares some of the best tactics to create vibrant fan page. In this presentation, you will get overall guideline on how to use different property of business page and how to customize it for your needs. Here we have focused on the how to create custom banner for page, How to add links, some of the key application to use, custom landing page for fans and normal visitors and more other technique and requirements