
Resources to help you find your authentic edge
Creating impactful content for your audience
As we’ve mentioned before, effective content creation is a critical element of a company’s marketing strategy. So, we want to offer a few tips to help guide you in the process of creating impactful content for your audience…
5 website design tips to guide you in creating an effective website
Your website is always around to interact with your audience (even when you are not), so it is essential that you are intentional when designing it. Below, see five website design tips to guide you in creating an effective website…
The impacts of color psychology in marketing
We often think of color psychology as affecting emotions or feelings, but color psychology is also the study of how colors affect our behavior. The colors you use in your branding can elicit different thoughts and feelings from users but can ultimately affect their decisions as well, so you should be intentional when deciding which ones to use. Color psychology can help to uncover and understand the less obvious effects of using different colors in your branding and marketing.
Conducting User Interviews (+ 10 Non-Leading Questions for Website Feedback)
We recently busted the myth that user research needed to be a complicated and expensive process for your company. So today we want to give you an easy starting point as you embark on your bootstrap journey into user research with user interviews. We’ll start by giving you some background information on user interviews, what makes good user interview questions, and who you should interview before sharing 10 questions you can use for your very own user interviews for insightful feedback on your company’s website.
Bootstrapping User Research
We'll walk you through our top tips for insightful user research on a budget. Trust us, you absolutely can rein in the costs of user research if you’re willing to take a meaningful approach to gaining insights from your users and network–and you absolutely should take the plunge into the user research process. Not only will you have a better understanding of your users motivations and frustrations to inform product design decisions, but you’ll be able to view your solutions and your company from a new perspective without insider bias. Ultimately, there are few downsides to iterative user research as it will improve both your design and business strategies and it doesn’t have to be an expensive feat.
The ROI of a healthy, user-centered website
Investing in a beautifully-designed and user-centered website is one of the best decisions any company can make, primarily because it will bring your company three things: visibility, credibility, and opportunity. Ultimately, this means a high return on investment (ROI) for any time and money you set aside for a better website. In this week’s post, we’ll break down how investing in your website will bring your company better visibility, credibility, and opportunity, and why the ROI of a user-centered website is so high.
User personas: what they are, how to make them, and how to use them
We'll break down everything you need to know about user personas: what they are, how to use them, and how to make your own. User personas are widely-used across disciplines to illustrate a possible representation of a specific target audience or group. They serve as a reminder to all team members, about the real world audiences they are targeting to use their products/solutions/services and the motivations those audiences most likely have.