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Increase user participation by Increasing your trustworthiness

So you’ve done all the proper SEO stuff for your site, you’ve told everyone you know about it, and you’ve designed your site to look as professional as possible. Now that you have your website up and running, users should start flocking to your website, filling out forms, becoming a member of your community, or just generally clicking around and accomplishing the goal you had intended. In a perfect world, your website would be bustling with activity, but unfortunately, not everyone’s website always goes as planned. If you find that your user participation has been less than you expected, it may be an issue of trust, among other things.

Experience has taught many internet users to be skeptical of everything on the web. We’ve all been burned at some point by an untrustworthy website, so you have to prove to each and every user that you are worthy of their trust. You have to prove that the form users must fill out will not increase the spam in their inbox, or that the button you wish them to press will not bring them to an advertising site with endless popups and popunders. Proving your trustworthiness is no small feat, but here are a few tips that may help you.

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Tips for Designing Mobile Applications

Designing for mobile applications is quite different from designing for conventional computers, such as laptops or desktops. If you were to port a website, for example, to a mobile device, it would mean more than simply making a miniature version of it. Think of mobile applications more like a child of a main application, rather than a miniature version. The mobile application shares many of the attributes of its parent application, but like any real child, it is not miniature copy of its parent. Here are a few things to consider when designing a mobile application: Read the rest of this entry »