When we started building a tool for gathering reviews and sharing feedback on web, eLearning, and eCommerce projects, we were always focused on providing context. Visual context, to be precise. That was the main problem we were trying to solve with zipBoard. Our own experience with conventional-issue or bug tracking and collaboration systems had left
Learners are one of the most important stakeholders in an eLearning project. Designing and developing courses with them in mind can lead to a better chance of the project being successful.
Businesses of all sizes today have an online presence. The eCommerce space is not just about sales but about establishing a credible brand that is visible to customers across digital channels. Online retail sales in the US itself have exceeded $230 billion and form an increasing chunk of the total retail sales. For brands that
A successful eLearning project stands on multiple pillars and involves many aspects that ensure success. With a variety of stakeholders, like instructional designers, subject matter experts, project managers, end learners, etc., collaboration and review are essential to ensure a successful eLearning course development process
Sophia Voychehovski Prater runs ReWired UX, a studio in Atlanta, Georgia. She has worked with clients like AT&T, The Atlanta History Center, Coca-Cola, Athena Health, and worked in-house with CNN Digital. When she’s not consulting for clients, Sophia writes, speaks, and runs coaching workshops about Object-Oriented User Experience (OOUX). What is object-oriented user experience, you
Live chat was designed to provide a shrewd resolution to customer queries. It is now one of the greatest tools for lead generation and increased sales. Businesses can use real-time conversations to better engage with website visitors. When tweaked with certain exponential practices, live chats can also become an overarching sales hack.
Good products and collaboration go hand in hand. The former is simply not feasible without the latter. Collaboration has always been an area of prime interest for us, at zipBoard. Whether that is a collaboration between designers and developers, or agencies and clients
Websites, at the time, were a collection of these static documents, stored in their entirety and there was minimal interface on the server-side. With the introduction of CGI or Common Gateway Interface, this changed. CGI allowed websites to run scripts and this enabled the webserver to be more than just a storage facility of static
Dark patterns in design are one end, an ethical issue. How fair it is to try and push the user into a direction that benefits your goals is still debated. In some cases, there’s a fine line between prompting the user for more active engagement or tricking them into diving deeper. In other cases, dark