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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.

Design

Avoid information overload in B2B software

Information Architecture in B2B software is crucial if you want to avoid users experiencing cognitive overload. Learn more about it here!

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How to know it’s time for a website redesign

5 reasons your company might need a website redesign Is your website attracting customers or turning them away? If it’s turning people off, it’s probably time for a website redesign. But how do you know? Fact: It takes about 50 milliseconds (that’s 0.05 seconds) for someone to form an opinion about your website. That opinion…

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Tips and Advice

Drive sales by understanding customers

Understanding customers through user research can increase business lead gen results When is the last time your company spent time learning about your customers? How deeply do you understand them? Research shows CX (customer experience) has increasing importance for companies of all sizes to remain competitive. Understanding users is a key function of setting a…

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News

Standard Beagle nominated for 2022 UX Design Awards

2 UX projects nominated for awards The 2022 UX Design Awards announced nominations and Standard Beagle has two projects honored. Judges nominated Standard Beagle’s design work for Circlage’s surgical evaluation platform and MedNet’s clinical database platform from among 124 projects to compete in the global competition for user experience excellence. These entries now move to…

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Fix your data display: 4 steps to strong table usability

Poor table usability with workplace applications is no secret The usability requirements and tradeoffs for workplace app designs are different from consumer apps. As UX experts, we have to focus on different points. For consumer apps, we tend to focus on the UI and fix show-stopping roadblocks. Meanwhile, for workplace apps we must focus on…

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How search design affects your product’s UX

Even search design can directly impact user experience in products When it comes to the overall user experience of a website, software or app, search design is often considered behind other functionality. But the design of search can make a big difference in how users experience a digital product. Not all websites or apps need…

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4 ways to avoid unintended design consequences

Designers aren’t looking for unintended consequences Designers often don’t consider what consequences — good AND bad — can arise from their designs. The reason? Human psychology. But there are four things designers can do to try to avoid unintended consequences. What are unintended consequences in design? One example of unintended consequences is cyberbullying. Today more…

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Tips and Advice

4 ways to make sure your products have mobile optimization

Poor mobile optimization can drive users away It’s imperative for modern digital products to focus on mobile optimization. Usability issues on a mobile site are five times more likely to drive users away without completing their tasks. Research has also shown that 70 percent of online shoppers will abandon their carts if the user experience…

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Actionable tips for optimizing images for web performance

This is part two of a two-part series on the best practices for designing with images. Read part one here. Inattention to images can slow down web performance and hurt your metrics. Here’s how designers can ensure they are optimizing images for web performance! Website performance is an essential factor for improved user experience and…

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Design

5 best practices for designing with images

This is part one of a two part series on the best practices for designing with images. Designing with images increases engagement Why? Humans are visual creatures This is why visuals matter when it comes to capturing the attention of people. In this article, we will review five best practices for designing with images that…

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Business

Deceptive UX: Crime Doesn’t Pay

The villainy of deceptive UX When a website is not providing the results you need, it can be tempting to trick users to navigate, interact, or behave the way you need. Initially, it may work in your favor. However, it will create animosity towards your product and brand that will ultimately turn users away permanently….

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Design

B2B SaaS product design vs B2C SaaS design

How designing for B2B SaaS products is different from vs B2C SaaS products B2B SaaS product design has fundamental differences from designing B2C products. When designers work on B2B products, they need to approach key areas differently. Why? Because of the differences in how B2B companies use products. To be brutally honest, I came into…

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Tips and Advice

Why UX design ROI matters more than ever

UX design is a lucrative investment TL;DR: UX design isn’t a cost center — it’s a business growth engine. This article shows how investing in UX design improves ROI by increasing conversions, reducing development costs, and creating long-term product value. The top companies in the world have learned that investing in UX design improves ROI…

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Design

CMS design best practices: How to build flexible, scalable interfaces

What every product leader needs to know to create scalable CMS-powered experiences CMS design best practices differ from designing for static applications. UX for content management systems must account for flexibility, reusability, and scalability — all without sacrificing usability or breaking the design. Design for a CMS requires specific design techniques that allow for reusability…

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Design

Essential guide to designing for voice interfaces

What you need to know about designing for voice apps Designing for voice apps that use speech recognition software is fundamentally different from designing screens. Without visual guides, designers must focus on the UX writing and voice interaction of the app. Creating a voice user interface means the personality of the app is unseen and…

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