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What is UX?

By Nicholas Cabel The 60-second version lives on Instagram

UX stands for User Experience: how your website feels to use. Good UX is invisible; everything just works and nobody notices. Bad UX is the opposite, and it quietly makes people leave before they ever reach your offer.

In plain English

Think of a well-designed doorway you walk through without a thought, versus one where you push a handle that is meant to be pulled. Great UX is the first kind of door everywhere on your site: nothing to figure out, nothing that makes people stop.

Three things move it

01

Clarity

People should know what to do and where to go at a glance, with no guessing.

02

Speed

Waiting kills patience; a slow page feels broken even when it works.

03

Simplicity

Cut the clutter, so the one thing you want people to do is the easy thing to do.

Worth remembering

People judge your site in about 50 milliseconds, faster than a blink.

That snap judgment decides whether they stay or bounce. First impressions online are the result of design, not luck, so the design has to earn the second glance.

What to do about it

Strip away the clutter, speed up the page, and make the next step obvious. Want to know how yours feels to a first-time visitor? Get a free website audit and I will walk you through it.

About the author

  • Nicholas Cabel

    Written by

    Nicholas Cabel

    Founder of MakeAndUpdate, a one-person web studio in West Chester, PA. Hand-codes fast websites for local businesses and builds in public.

    @makeandupdate