News from DesignScan since 2014: new features, website tips and what thousands of scans say about the web.
Visitors rarely tell you what annoyed them. They show it: clicking the same spot again and again, clicking things that do nothing, and leaving. Here is how to read those signs, and how to fix the usual causes.
Visitors judge a website in a fraction of a second, and an old-looking site costs trust before anyone reads a word. Website Age dates what your site is built with and tells you which year it feels like.
DesignScan started in 2008 as the first site where designers judged each other’s websites. After years of silence it is back, rebuilt from scratch: a free scan in about a minute, ten gauges, a plain-language fix list and people who vote.
Mobile app design is shaping web design: as phones overtake desktops, app and web interfaces grow together. What that means for the way websites are designed.
Why moving from a desktop website to a mobile-friendly one is so hard: device limits, tricky navigation, a sea of platforms and impatient mobile visitors.
Season’s greetings from the DesignScan team for Christmas 2014, with a hint of the announcements to come in 2015.
November 2014: a rebuilt, responsive support section, new forum and wiki templates, a copywriter for the website text, the first social media numbers and passing 200 designscans.
Navigation, visual design, content, interaction, branding, conversion and more: ten things that separate a good website from a great one. Which one matters most to you?
Four short video tutorials for the first DesignScan: signing up, logging in, the dashboard and voting.
A free scan takes about a minute: Website Age, speed, SEO, the UX Doctor and real people’s votes.
