a/b testing »

The UX Toolbox: The UX Tools You Need to Get It Done

The UX Toolbox: The UX Tools You Need to Get It Done

Jenna Curry October 31, 2012 8

UX thrives on data. And to get data we need tools. Good tools. Kick ass tools. Tools that help us understand the desires and motives of our users… The best way to directly obtain

Read More »
BUX Review: The Hello Bar

BUX Review: The Hello Bar

Ben Snyder August 27, 2012 0

I first ran across the Hello Bar when I saw a tweet about it being bought by Crazy Egg. What really interested me about it was that somebody thought to make this a service

Read More »
5 Incredibly Insightful User Experience Blog Posts

5 Incredibly Insightful User Experience Blog Posts

Ben Snyder April 30, 2012 0

A few months ago, Newman started a UX Group on the social bookmarking site Diigo. It’s called UX Puppy. I was looking over some of the recent articles and was struck with just how

Read More »
No Money User Testing: The Free Plan revealed

No Money User Testing: The Free Plan revealed

Newman Lanier April 25, 2012 2

Are you a scrappy start-up that wants to test but have no money? Don’t feel sad, my friend.  @BUXOfficial is here to help. In Ben’s last post, he asked a pretty good question: How

Read More »
Better User Experience Podcast #26: Making Your Website More Effective by Using Narratives

Better User Experience Podcast #26: Making Your Website More Effective by Using Narratives

Ben Snyder February 6, 2012 0

Podcast: Download On today’s podcast we elaborate on Friday’s post about innovation vs. iteration. Then we slide right into a good discussion about using narratives in websites to drive user action. We talk about

Read More »
A/B Test Results:  Cute Bear Wins!

A/B Test Results: Cute Bear Wins!

Newman Lanier February 1, 2012 1

Two weeks ago I got into a bear fight.  Or rather I made two bears fight.  The winner would grace the cover of my website, Alaskagold.com: A traveler’s guide to South Central Alaska. This

Read More »
Better User Experience Podcast #23: Two Keys to Improve Your Sales Funnel

Better User Experience Podcast #23: Two Keys to Improve Your Sales Funnel

Ben Snyder January 16, 2012 0

Podcast: Download Today is the day that if you’re a small business owner, reminds you that you’re not dead. Because if you were dead you wouldn’t be mailing in your quarterly tax payment. The

Read More »
A/B Testing with Google Website Optimizer

A/B Testing with Google Website Optimizer

Newman Lanier January 13, 2012 3

Here’s my question: Which of these  images will decrease my bounce rate? Layout A with ‘Angry Bear’ image:   Layout B with ‘Happy Bear’ image: Google Website Optimizer seems like the tool to use. 

Read More »
Better User Experience Podcast #22: A/B Testing and Smoothies

Better User Experience Podcast #22: A/B Testing and Smoothies

Ben Snyder January 9, 2012 1

Podcast: Download Good evening there ladies and jelly beans. It’s been a crazy Monday so far and on today’s podcast we got even more riled up. You’d think that’d be hard to do about

Read More »
A/B Testing Websites Fail to “Show Me the Money”

A/B Testing Websites Fail to “Show Me the Money”

Newman Lanier January 6, 2012 3

A few days ago, Ben wrote a post that did a nice job talking about the basics of A/B testing. Today’s post was supposed to build on that by doing a survey of the

Read More »