#102 Coding for kids, eCommerce UX design principles, more wider insights of society
I summarised some business books from people across product, tech and eCommerce and this was the common theme that was easy for me to understand and will guide all the experiments I do this year - enjoy.
Create something you want and know how to build because you’ve built it for yourself or someone you care about. Figure out how to build it, then get it to others, high-end before the mass market.
Why is this key?
The best ideas do generate from pain points that you experience and gives you:
a depth understanding domain
a depth understanding of alternatives
and usually means u are passionate and will ride it out
What else have I been up to?
Redesigning my Sisters homepage. I looked at best practises on eCommerce websites (why not leverage all the expensive research the pros have done lol) and I will do a canvas and get quick feedback from her target customers.
I did a DuckDuckGo search to find and got inspo from a full background eComm site and one that shows product variety with some white space.
I remember doing design used to be jumping into an empty canvas and convert inspiration into creation. Needless to say that this process resembles more to the work of an artist than of a designer.
Design is the intentional solution to a problem within a set of constraints. The most significant constraint is what you think you’re solving for.
Prototyping
Applying user research to a small e-commerce website — a UX case study
A UX Designer shares how he used contextual research, user interviews and user testing to help redesign an old e-commerce website.
An e-commerce website with a social twist
A UX Designer shares the steps he took to building an-ecommerce project
UX best practices every ecommerce store should follow
Provide Intuitive Navigation
Design a Killer Homepage
Create Product Pages that Convert
Have an FAQ Page
Make your Checkout Processes User-Friendly
A quality list of 30 UX Websites and Blogs
Faves were the following because they built a community and have articles that don’t look like they are solely for SEO purposes.
Increasing eCommerce Conversion Rates: Category Page
This article speaks from the perspective of maximising conversations on the category page of an e-commerce website; shares some good principles.
Every visitor is a potential customer. A successful store is one that converts a high number of visitors into buyers. It’s more than just optimising a single page - you have to optimise the buying process.
Top Approaches for e-Commerce Product Videos | UX Booth
When used well, product videos can be a valuable asset to any e-commerce site. Usography founder Paul Bryan continues his e-commerce discussion with a journey into the ins and outs of product videos.
How to Design a Home Page That Converts
The home page is your shop front, it gets the most hits, what is your home page optimising for?
Insights
100 announcements Google made at I/O '19.
Google’s annual developer conference, IO, mainly showing what’s happening with machine learning (ML)
Android will now be able to generate live text captions to any audio playing on your device, and Google will now be indexing the speech inside podcasts.
In case you missed it, here are 100 announcements we made at Google I/O ‘19.
Google copped on of the major smart home brands
Backstory:
Nest Labs was founded in 2010 by former Apple engineers and 4 years later Google copped it for a mega $3.2bn
I find this super interesting with the smart home being the best place for a new wave of applications and use cases. I believe that people who truly seek work/life integration will see the promise of a smart home as a piece of the missing puzzle.
This article tells us that Nest is no longer a standalone company but instead is a sub-brand (not even a division) of Google.
Nest now means “a smart home product” just like “Youtube” means video sharing.
Ride Sharing drivers not happy
Got in an Uber lately?
With Uber and Lyft both having their IPO recently, the question about the impact on drivers has resurfaced. This has been covered by UK newspapers and Mashable
On the weekend, I used 3 Ubers and all the drivers complained about the ULEZ charge, and the fact that they have to pay as well. One guy told me he had to work 20 hours to make £160
4 min Video version here
Makers
The fastest and easiest way to inspect and copy CSS
I can’t lie, this is super fun to use. One thing I like about apps/products is that there is no single way to do things.
Inspect on steroids — Visualize the CSS of any element you hover over, instantly, and copy its entire rules with a single click.
Culture Chat
Interacting coding for Kids
Get your kids coding from as young as 4.
Plans for these 3 age groups:
4 - 7
7 - 13
13+
Interactive self-paced learning allows kids to progress their skills and seamlessly transition to text languages like JavaScript and Python.
Costs £15 per month
Learn how to code by playing a game
Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Open source HTML5 game!
If you want more options, here’s a subreddit
If you want more options, here’s a subreddit
Founderfest 2019 - Felix Speller Photography - Simplify your life
Here’s photo’s from Founderfest