The Fable of the User-Centred Designer

What a book, very light, professional, and FREE. It’s a must read book and will take 3 minutes max.

The book tells a story on a young man who want to learn about how to become a great designer, in smooth way the author takes you in a user-centred design journey explaining it’s secrets and benefit’s. (more…)

Google New Homepage – Fade-In

Google launched a new fade-in homepage that deliver a new experience to their users, users according to Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience are coming to Google either to search or to use one of their products like Gmail. The new fade-in experience remove distraction for the user intent on searching. (more…)

Middle east has no interest in website traffic analysis!

Steve Ballmer – Innovation Day

Steve Ballmer attending the Innovation Day organized by Microsoft Egypt at the intercontinental City Stars in Cairo 22 April 2009.

I was there, finally saw the legendary Steve Ballmer on his keynote and he is really an amazing guy. I was inspired with his passionate to people, science and technology. His dreams and vision for tomorrow is very interesting, I will leave you with the keynote to see your selves.

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What spiders want from web designers?

As a web designer what you should know in order to build a search engine friendly website, what points you need to cover and what tools you need to use.

First let’s all agree that we professional web designers do write good semantic markup and not the old fashion table based designs. This is something essential, why? Because search engines are just like people, they don’t like to read a lot of unnecessary markup and get board quickly that they might leave your website before they crawl it all. They also can’t determine which part of the markup is important and which is not such as lists, menu or titles. (more…)

Conversion ratio and link colors

Does links color affect conversion ratio? Well it does; it’s part of the game.

For years and years there has been that debate between usability consultants and designers regarding standards and it’s affect on usability.
While it has been proven that following standards will enhance the user experience on your site, we still see this debate going on.

In this article I will talk about one of the standards, the links.
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Traffic Analysis Can Reduce Bounce Rate Tip #4:

How important is it to reduce your bounce rate?

In a previous post Bounce Rate Tip #2; I explained that bounce rate is one of the metrics that affect your conversions and should be checked regularly.

Today I will try to discuss how to reduce your bounce rate by analyzing and knowing both your referrals and traffic.

Your traffic is coming from three different places, either it’s coming from:

• Search engines
• Other websites are linking to you
• Not referred traffic by direct input, bookmarks, or newsletters and advertising…etc.

Note: I will not go deep into the not referred traffic within this article.

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Traffic & Referrals tip #3

Deep measurement

Wow, how fast weeks pass these days.
Hope you all had a great week full of good output and enjoyed these spring days.

Today I will discuss the traffic of your website, where do you receive it, who is your referrals and what’s their relation with bounce rate and conversion ratio.

Before I start check these two links for referrals and traffic definition and get back here to continue reading.

• • HTTP Referrals
• • Web Traffic

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