{"id":10149,"date":"2015-03-28T00:18:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.ca\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2024-11-05T06:54:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T11:54:36","slug":"how-to-achieve-a-user-centered-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/blog\/how-to-achieve-a-user-centered-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Achieve A User Centered Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For whom are you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/blog\/the-basics-of-a-good-website-design\/\">designing the website<\/a>? Users! Then don\u2019t you think you need to consider user-centered design instead of focusing on fancy ones?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By including only high-tech features and forgetting about users\u2019 ease, you are not doing any favours to your brand or company. When your sole purpose in designing a website is to catch users\u2019 attention and convert your leads into permanent customers, then your primary focus should be going with the user-centered approach. Here we will discuss how you can achieve a user-centered website.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Why is user-centered design important?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When discussing how to create a user-centric website, it is vital to know why you need it. Here are some of the perks of going with the user-centered designs:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eliminates the requirement of excessive re-designs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will design safer and more effective products for your audience.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More user engagement because of a higher customer satisfaction rate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delivers positive user experience and increases loyalty among customers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More sales because of high customer satisfaction with your products and services.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduced costs, delays, and risks because of lower chances of coming up with unsatisfactory products.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are some of the benefits of going with the user-centered design principles. Now let us proceed to see how you can achieve it to impress your users by offering them smooth website navigation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How to achieve a user-centered website?<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While designing the website, along with concentrating on the business objectives, it is vital to focus on easy navigation for the users. Let us see how to develop a user-centered website:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-54328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/good-websites-designs-principles.jpg\" alt=\"good-websites-designs-principles\" width=\"750\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/good-websites-designs-principles.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/good-websites-designs-principles-185x100.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3>Stay simple with your designs<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To stand out in the crowd, designers often make mistakes by going with complicated designs. Adding more advanced or tough-to-use elements in your website won\u2019t do any good to your business. It will only make the navigation process more challenging for your audience. So staying simple with your designs is the key to success.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep your website clutter-free by avoiding unnecessary or tough-to-use elements in your designs. With this, we don\u2019t mean to stay limited in your designs. You can include as many details as required, but they should be relevant to your services and add value to your website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep your website easier to navigate, and your highly informative content will increase your business&#8217;s traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3>\u00a0Maintain consistency in your designs<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In digital marketing, it is vital to stay consistent in your designs. Users do not read; they scan the website. So, while creating the website, ensure your webpage is self-explanatory. Refrain from letting your users think; they should get the information quickly they are looking for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Users get familiar with your website when they experience consistency throughout the website. It will also help to build credibility and trust among your target audience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensure you use a similar visual style, colour palette, and straightforward typography across multiple channels to convey professionalism. Your readers will develop familiarity with your brand that remains consistent on various platforms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ensure to go into minute details like specific colours, font styles, etc. So, maintaining consistency will help in providing a familiar experience to users with great-looking website designs.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3>Design a responsive website<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per Statista, last year, there were 15 billion mobile devices. However, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/245501\/multiple-mobile-device-ownership-worldwide\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the number is expected to reach 18.22 billion by the year 2025<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The rising number is self-explanatory about how important it is to develop a responsive website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though people do internet browsing on desktops, today, everyone is in a hurry, and users like to access the website quickly on their handy devices. It can be on mobile, tabs, laptops, etc. As users are using websites on multiple devices, making your website responsive is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When users navigate through your website freely and get the information, they will find it more user-friendly. They will like to make repeated visits and recommend your website to others, resulting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/blog\/useful-tips-to-increase-traffic-on-your-website\/\">increased traffic toward your website<\/a> and, thus, more sales.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3>Quick page-loading speed<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First impressions matter! Nobody likes revisiting slow-loading websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think from a user-centered research point of view and then analyze how patiently you can wait when a web page is getting loaded. At most 2-3 seconds! The same holds true for your website visitors too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, while designing, you need to take great care about website loading speed. This is crucial because the longer it takes, the higher customer dissatisfaction and increased bounce rate will be.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nobody wants to spend an extended time finding the required information, and so do your readers. It doesn\u2019t matter how good your products are. If the website takes more time to load, your users have a high chance of leaving the website even before looking at the searched product or service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinexmedia.com\/blog\/how-to-improve-website-speed-performance-should-be-a-priority\/\">page loading time<\/a> plays a significant role when you are creating a user-centered website.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">\n<h3>Easily findable contact information and CTA \u2013 call to action<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you are designing a website, let users contact you in need by quickly finding your contact information. Finding your contact details \u2013 email address, phone number, online chat, or social accounts- should not be difficult. Remember, you need to be available for your users until they complete the checkout process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, your call-to-action buttons also need to be designed carefully. The usage of a suitable CTA will increase your click-through rate. Think innovatively about where to place the correct CTA and how many CTA\u2019s should be there on each page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Placing the valid information and buttons in the right place will surely give you good results.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Closing Words<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Going with the user-centric design is a positive tactic when you are considering getting a new website design for your business. Developing the designs after thinking from the user\u2019s perspective means you build a deep empathy toward them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You understand the audience reaching you and opt to come up with tailored answers to their questions. After all, you are designing for the people. So coming up with heaps of innovative ideas for achieving user-centric ideas will surely give you fruitful results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Try our above-discussed ideas and launch your user-centered website to convert your leads into permanent customers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whom are you designing the website? Users! Then don\u2019t you think you need to consider user-centered design instead of focusing on fancy ones? By including only high-tech features and forgetting about users\u2019 ease, you are not doing any favours to your brand or company. 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