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The team at Standard Beagle regularly shares deep insights and best practices you can use as your design and create your own products and services.

Look to our blog for expertise in UX design, research, and other industry topics. We may have used AI to outline or assist with writing, but all of these articles are 100% conceived and edited by real humans.

We publish UX design articles as well as the latest insights into product design, usability, accessibility and more.

Tips and Advice

Goal-setting for UX/UI designers

Goal-setting must be intentional and purposeful. In this article I’ll explain why we set goals, how to set up SMARTER goals, and how to stick the goals we’ve set.

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Design

A quick quide to user onboarding

What is onboarding? When users first step into a product, they are bombarded with new functions. The services you offer may seem obvious to you. However, users with no knowledge of the process will have difficulty understanding your intentions. This is where user onboarding comes into play. Onboarding is the form of actively guiding users…

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Tips and Advice | Business

Understanding 5 ecommerce user personas

The Who’s Who of ecommerce user personas With a wide variety of potential users, it’s important to specifically hone in on users who are looking for the right platform for them: we’ll call these snapshots of specific groups ecommerce user personas. Whether small scale or large, these personas have many options to choose from. The…

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News

Award-winning UX agency Standard Beagle honored for work

Standard Beagle wins design award at the annual Web Excellence Awards competition Award-winning UX agency Standard Beagle honored for work with KUT and Austin Symphony By Cindy Brummer Product leaders looking for proven design partners can now add Standard Beagle to their shortlist. The Austin-based UX agency was recently recognized as an award-winning UX agency…

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Business

Optimize customer experience with A/B testing: A strategic guide for product leaders

By implementing A/B testing, you gain the ability to make strategic design decisions backed by data, resulting in a better customer experience and a higher return on investment (ROI).

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Musings

How illustration improves UX design

How illustration improves UX design is a principle we’ve seen in action at Standard Beagle. We’ve always believed that great UX design is rooted in empathy. It’s about understanding people — not just through research and data but through creative expression and the ability to communicate visually. And that’s why we believe some of the…

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Business

Austin UX design talent: The creative force behind top products

Austin is more than just tacos and tech. It’s a powerhouse for UX. Discover how Austin UX design talent shapes our work at Standard Beagle and why it matters for product teams everywhere.

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Business

How to measure retention in your digital products

Customer retention is one of the most important metrics you can track Companies often track metrics to understand the health of their digital products. These might include the number of new customers that sign up, how many people abandon the process, and where new customers come from. But one metric that some products may not…

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From the Archives

Tunes from the Team: Motorcycles

From the Vault: This post is part of our Legacy Archive — a peek back into earlier days at Standard Beagle. We’ve grown a lot since then, and while this content isn’t part of our current direction, it still holds a special place in our history. If you’re looking for insights on UX, SaaS, or…

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Design

How to improve DEI in your design workplace

Panel of design leaders share thoughts on how to improve DEI UX in ATX hosted a panel discussion of design leaders across the US on how to create a space at work where everyone can feel safe, accepted, and heard. Panelists: Watch the UX in ATX meetup recording Are you a UX designer or interested…

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From the Archives

Tunes from the Team: America

From the Vault: This post is part of our Legacy Archive — a peek back into earlier days at Standard Beagle. We’ve grown a lot since then, and while this content isn’t part of our current direction, it still holds a special place in our history. If you’re looking for insights on UX, SaaS, or…

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Social Media

Tunes from the Team: Cindy’s Memories

From the Vault: This post is part of our Legacy Archive — a peek back into earlier days at Standard Beagle. We’ve grown a lot since then, and while this content isn’t part of our current direction, it still holds a special place in our history. If you’re looking for insights on UX, SaaS, or…

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Coding

Best CMS for health organizations: WordPress, Drupal, or Craft?

Choosing the best CMS for health organizations can feel like navigating a maze, especially with unique needs like HIPAA compliance, multilingual support, and user-friendly content management. While many CMS platforms exist, WordPress, Drupal, and (to some extent) Craft CMS often rise to the top of the list when healthcare leaders are making decisions.

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Tips and Advice

5 UX design system best practices for a more consistent user experience

Design consistency is important for user experience Why you need to understand how the human mind works It can be exciting to develop innovative ways to design your website or product. But without following UX design system best practices, you risk confusing users and weakening their trust in your product. Whether users are looking for…

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From the Archives

Tunes From the Team: Heroes and Villains

From the Vault: This post is part of our Legacy Archive — a peek back into earlier days at Standard Beagle. We’ve grown a lot since then, and while this content isn’t part of our current direction, it still holds a special place in our history. If you’re looking for insights on UX, SaaS, or…

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