How website design and development processes integrate with IoT

The internet of things continues to be one of the hottest trends in the technology world these days. The technology has impacted all facets of tech development and, of course, the way that websites are designed and developed.

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Web design and the internet of everything

There's no denying the buzz about the internet of things, it is a notion that pretty much everything, from automobiles and refrigerators to industrial machines and environmental sensors to baby monitors and surveillance cameras can be equipped with circuitry, allowing them to connect to the internet, offering information continuously or on-demand. A lot of internet-connected devices are on the market already. In any case, each IoT device has to be accessed, managed, configured and manipulated at some point. Doing so requires a more familiar internet-connected device, like a smartphone or laptop. And this commonly means new web development and design techniques.

Design considerations for IoT interaction

A website design company should be aware and knowledgeable of the different considerations for design and IoT interactions. The following are some design considerations required to let users interact with IoT devices:

Back end: To allow users to interact with IoT devices, a way of establishing communications among them should be established. Since each device has various commands, capabilities and data, it could transmit and receive exactly how to communicate device to device.

User interface: A web-based UI for an IoT app should be clean, fast and intuitive. All the standard usability best practices would be brought to bear when it comes to designing the interface, which include meaningful feedback, good user assistance and logical flow. Keep in mind that many, if not most, usage instances involve mobile devices.

Security and privacy: The downside of IoT is that it presents more opportunities for hackers. If one could unlock a web-connected front door, a hacker potentially could do the same and help himself to the contents of the home. Part of the privacy and security responsibility lies on the device designers, but a third-party web designer has to make security the main design consideration.

Power management: A lot of IoT devices are battery-powered and wireless; excessive back-and-forth communications would prematurely drain the battery. Communications should be designed to minimize power usage.

Speed: Unlike traditional websites, where requests go to a web server that sends back data, there's another communications leg involved between an IoT device and web server. This possibly means more latency and the perception of slow response of users. Thus, design strategies for slow connections must be adopted.

Testing considerations: Testing an IoT website is a bit more complicated than it is for a traditional site.

Many opportunities to make lives easier

The advent of the internet of things presents a lot of opportunities to build innovative, new and useful apps to make people's lives easier. It is good to know that the IoT development landscape is improving, but the present ecosystem still is rampant with difficult-to-use and fragile devices, most of which come with disparate communication protocols and security flaws that prevent seamless integrations. Instead of squeezing embedded C to the web world, there are other web tools and technology that could be used.

Impact of IoT on web design

The growth of IoT already is beginning to exert influence on web design. The following are some considerations for businesses when building websites, as well as web-based user interfaces:

Business sites should develop the growing sophisticated ability of responding to personalized data from web-enabled devices.

With a business site, activities should interact more directly with IoT devices. For example, a surge in search queries or uptick in online purchases for a certain product could impact a machine's activities immediately for both those companies that manufacture products and those that prepare them for distribution. A third-party vendor message on the availability of a new product could automatically and quickly lead to its promotion on the website.

Flexible, clean user interfaces are imperative. Designing websites that look good on screens of various sizes is imperative. IoT has many demands of user interfaces and web design; people will not interact with various devices in the same manner. Rather, they will have different expectations for the information displayed on every device and how they could optimally engage with it. Intelligible icons and minimal text can make the most of small interfaces. There would also be an increase in the need for dashboards, which include apps that help people manage data from various devices.

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Web Development Conferences 2018

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January Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Front - UX & Product Management Bootcamp 2018 Park City, USA 🇺🇸 January 4-5 Frontend, UX ❌ ✅ CodeMash 2018 Sandusky, USA 🇺🇸 January 9-12 Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, PHP ❌ ✅ Accessibility Club Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 January 15 Frontend, A11y ❌ ✅ beyond tellerrand // MUNICH 2018 Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 January 15-17 Frontend, UX, Creativity ❌ ✅ NDC London London, UK 🇬🇧 January 15-19 Frontend, Backend ❌ ✅ ReactFoo Pune, India 🇮🇳 January 19-20 JavaScript, React ✅ ✅ Script 18 Linz, Austria 🇦🇹 January 19 JavaScript ❌ ✅ JSConf.Asia 2018 Singapore 🇸🇬 January 25-27 JavaScript, CSS, Web ✅ ✅ Afrotech Fest 2018 London, UK 🇬🇧 January 26-27 Design, Development, Diversity and Inclusion ❌ ✅ AgentConf Dornbirn, Austria 🇦🇹 January 25-28 JavaScript, Web ❌ ✅ February Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC ng-europe Paris, France 🇫🇷 February 1-2 JavaScript, Angular ❌ ✅ rubyfuza Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 February 1-3 Ruby, Web ❌ ✅ Pacific NW Drupal Summit Portland, USA 🇺🇸 February 3-4 Drupal, PHP, Symfony, Frontend, Being Human ❌ ✅ JFokus Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 February 5-7 Java, JavaScript ❌ ✅ Smashing Conf London London, UK 🇬🇧 February 7-8 Frontend, Web, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❌ ✅ The Rolling Scopes Conference Minsk 🇧🇾 February 10-11 Frontend, Web, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❌ ✅ SustainableUX Online 🌐 February 15 UX, Design ❌ ✅ Webstock Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿 February 12-16 Frontend, Web, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❌ ✅ Front Fest Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 February 17 Frontend, Web, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❌ ✅ FITC Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 February 21-23 Design, Development, Inspiration ❌ ✅ Assert(JS) San Antonio, USA 🇺🇸 February 22 JavaScript, Testing ❌ ✅ Iterate San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸 February 27 Development, Architecture ❌ ❓ March Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC JSConf Iceland Rejkjavik, Iceland 🇮🇸 March 1-2 JavaScript ❌ ✅ NGVikings Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮 March 1-2 JavaScript, Angular ✅ ✅ Concat Salzburg, Austria 🇦🇹 March 3 Web, UX ❌ ✅ TOCA ME Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 March 3 Design, Inspiration ❌ ❓ QCon London London, UK 🇬🇧 March 5-7 Development, Performance, Architecture ✅ ✅ ScaleConf Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 March 8-9 Scalability, DevOps, Web ✅ ✅ ReactFest 2018 London, UK 🇬🇧 March 9 JavaScript, React ✅ ❓ Internet of Things Conference Munich, Germany 🇩🇪 March 12-14 IoT ❌ ❓ Pixel Up! Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 March 12-14 UX, Product Design, Web ❌ ✅ Emberconf Portland, USA 🇺🇸 March 13-14 JavaScript, Ember ✅ ✅ UpFrontConf Manchester, UK 🇬🇧 March 16 Frontend, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ✅ ✅ Pipeline Conf London, UK 🇬🇧 March 20 Architecture, Development, CI/CD ✅ ✅ CSSConf AU Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 March 20 CSS ✅ ✅ JAZZCon New Orleans, USA 🇺🇸 March 21-23 JavaScript, JS Frameworks, HTML5, CSS3 ✅ ✅ JSConf AU Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 March 21-22 JavaScript ✅ ✅ Render Conf Oxford, UK 🇬🇧 March 23 JavaScript, HTML, CSS ✅ ✅ VUECONF.us New Orleans, USA 🇺🇸 March 26-28 JavaScript, Vue ✅ ✅ DevConf ZA Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 March 27 Development, Web ❌ ✅ #PerfMatters Redwood City, USA 🇺🇸 March 27-28 Web, Performance ❌ ✅ DevConf ZA Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 March 29 Development, Web ❌ ✅ April Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC ForwardJS Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦 April 3-6 JavaScript ✅ ✅ Webcon Illinois, USA 🇺🇸 April 4-6 JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web ✅ ✅ Frontend NE Newcastle, UK 🇬🇧 April 5 JavaScript, HTML, CSS ✅ ✅ Pro Web Nice, France 🇫🇷 April 9-12 Development, Web ✅ ❓ Web à Québec Québec, Canada 🇨🇦 April 10-12 Development, Web ✅ ✅ Web Directions Design Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 April 12-13 User Research, CX, UX, UI, Product Design ✅ ✅ React Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 April 13 JavaScript, React ✅ ✅ Universal JS Day Ferrara, Italy 🇮🇹 April 13 JavaScript ✅ ❓ UX + DEV Summit Fort Lauderdale, USA 🇺🇸 April 14-16 Frontend, UX ✅ ✅ Bulgaria Web Summit Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 April 14 HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❓ ✅ Smashing Conf San Francisco San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸 April 17-18 Frontend, Web, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❌ ✅ ng-conf Salt Lake City, USA 🇺🇸 April 18-20 JavaScript, AngularJS ✅ ✅ JSHeroes Cluj Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴 April 18-20 JavaScript ✅ ✅ DevExperience Iasi, Romania 🇷🇴 April 19-21 Development, Architecture ❌ ❓ React Finland Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮 April 24-26 Development, JavaScript, React, Web ❌ ✅ FEDC St. Petersburg, USA 🇺🇸 April 25-27 UX, Web, Frontend ❌ ❓ #devone Linz, Austria 🇦🇹 April 26 Development, Architecture, DevOps ❌ ✅ UphillConf Bern, Switzerland 🇨🇭 April 26-27 Frontend, JavaScript ❌ ✅ May Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Codeland New York, USA 🇺🇸 May 4-5 Development, Newcomers ✅ ✅ beyond tellerrand // Düsseldorf 2018 Düsseldorf, Germany 🇩🇪 May 7-9 Frontend, UX, Creativity ❌ ✅ NDC Minnesota Minnesota, USA 🇺🇸 May 7-10 Development, Architecture ✅ ✅ Codemotion Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 May 8-9 Development, Architecture ✅ ✅ JSDay Italy Verona, Italy 🇮🇹 May 9-10 JavaScript ✅ ✅ Devoxx UK London, UK 🇬🇧 May 9-11 Development, Architecture ✅ ❓ DeltaV Conference London, UK 🇬🇧 May 10-11 Web, Performance ❓ ✅ AccessU Austin (TX), USA 🇺🇸 May 14–16 Accessibility, Web, Documents ✅ ❓ React Europe Paris, France 🇫🇷 May 17-18 JavaScript, React ✅ ✅ JSDayES Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 May 19 JavaScript ❓ ✅ Holy JS St.Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺 May 19-20 JavaScript ✅ ✅ YGLF Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 May 24-25 JavaScript, HTML, CSS ✅ ✅ Front Trends Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱 May 24-25 JavaScript, HTML, CSS ✅ ✅ DevSum18 Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 May 31 - June 1 Development, Architecture ✅ ✅ Frontend United Utrecht, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 May 31 - June 2 JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Drupal ❌ ✅ June Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Syntax Conf Charlston, USA 🇺🇸 June 1-2 JavaScript ❓ ✅ Building IoT Cologne, Germany 🇩🇪 June 1-2 JavaScript ✅ ✅ CSSconf EU Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 June 1 CSS ✅ ✅ JSConf EU Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 June 2-3 JavaScript ✅ ✅ Web Rebels Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴 June 4-5 Web, CSS, JavaScript ❓ ✅ Webconf.asia 2018 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 June 6-9 Web ❌ ✅ Best of Web Paris, France 🇫🇷 June 7-8 HTML, CSS, JavaScript ✅ ✅ pitercss_conf St. Petersburg, Russia 🇷🇺 June 8-9 HTML, CSS, SVG, JavaScript, Typography ❓ ❓ DevIT Thessaloniki , Greece 🇬🇷 June 9 JavaScript ❓ ✅ Fluent San Jose, USA 🇺🇸 June 11-14 JavaScript, Performance, Web ✅ ✅ ConvergeSE Columbia, USA 🇺🇸 June 13-15 Development, Web ❓ ❓ NDC Oslo Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴 June 11-15 Development, Architecture ✅ ✅ CSS Day Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 June 14-15 CSS, UX ❌ ✅ GraphQL Europe 2018 Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪 June 15 JavaScript, React, GraphQL ✅ ✅ EnterJS Darmstadt, Germany 🇩🇪 June 19-21 JavaScript ✅ ✅ We Rise Atlanta, USA 🇺🇸 June 21-22 Development, JavaScript, Women in Tech ✅ ✅ Smashing Conf Toronto Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 June 26-27 Frontend, Web, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ❌ ✅ July Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Fullstack 2018 London, UK 🇬🇧 July 11-13 JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Web ✅ ✅ Chain React Portland, USA 🇺🇸 July 11-13 JavaScript, React, React Native ✅ ❓ Curry On Conf Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 July 16 Development, Architecture ❓ ✅ ScotlandCSS Edinburgh, UK 🇬🇧 July 18 CSS ✅ ✅ ScotlandJS Edinburgh, UK 🇬🇧 July 19-20 JavaScript ✅ ✅ NodeSummit San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸 July 23-25 JavaScript, Node.js ✅ ✅ August Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Web Directions Leaders Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 August 1 Team Lead, Culture ✅ ✅ Web Directions Code Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 August 2-3 Web, JavaScript, HTML, CSS ✅ ✅ React Rally Salt Lake City, USA 🇺🇸 August 16-17 JavaScript, React ❓ ✅ Form & Function Class 9 Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 August 18 Design, UX , Frontend, Web ❌ ❓ September Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Webkongress Erlangen Erlangen, Germany 🇩🇪 September 11-13 Web, JavaScript, HTML, CSS ✅ ❓ JSFoo Bangalore, India 🇮🇳 September 15-16 Web, JavaScript, Design, Ux ✅ ✅ WebExpo Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿 September 21-22 Web, JavaScript, Design, Ux ❌ ✅ October Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Technorama Ede, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 October 1-3 Development, Architecture ✅ ❓ React JS Day Verona, Italy 🇮🇹 October 5 JavaScript, React ✅ ✅ JS Interactive Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 October 10-12 JavaScript ✅ ✅ Blend Web Mix Lyon, France 🇫🇷 October 24-25 Web, JavaScript, Design, Ux ❓ ✅ November Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC Web Directions AI Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 November 7 AI ✅ ✅ Web Directions Culture Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 November 7 Team Lead, Culture ✅ ✅ Web Directions Summit Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 November 8-9 2 Track, Web, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, User Research, CX, UX, UI, Product Design ✅ ✅ BRING IT TOGETHER Niagara Falls, Canada 🇨🇦 November 8-10 Web, Education ❌ ✅ ColdFront 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰 November 13-14 Web, Mobile, Front-end, Interfaces ❌ ✅ December Event Location Date Topic CFP CoC None yet
Source: Web Development Conferences 2018

Getting Great Custom Website Design For Your Business

Custom website design not only helps in directing traffic to your website but also increases web presence and business remarkably. Custom Website Design for Business refers to improving or enhancing the graphic and technical aspects of a site to make it more attractive and user friendly. It mostly concentrates on look, feel, colour, logos, texts, pictures, presentations on the web page so that it can be made more eye catching, informative and smart.

Based on the usage and values of an organization, websites can be classified broadly under several categories. The website design for each is unique as it would serve different purposes with the varying categories:

Personal website: Where the website design should concentrate on promoting the individual who owns the site. Here designing will be based to create or enhance opinions or ideas about the individual and content is usually presented in a colourful and entertaining manner.

Commercial or business website: A bus iness website design will solely concentrate on promoting, vigorous sales and marketing of a product, idea or service. Target audience friendly content, text, informative photos, promotional logos are a must. The page designed should be able to load faster for user convenience.

Governmental website: Owned by the government, here designing is directed at guiding users easily through the sea of data available on the site.

Non-profit organization website: Usually promoting a cause or idea, here designing should concentrate on hard hitting images and texts that makes the concept, idea or cause a prominent feature to visitors.

A very important aspect of custom designs is blogging for increasing interaction with visitors and customers. One of the more popular blogging softwares is WordPress.

There are several WordPress themes that can be chosen from as per requirements of the business. The themes vary according to content, look and graphics used. The best WordPress themes or the ones that are most popular today are listed below, in accordance of number of columns and other criteria:

The internet is flooded with many websites today. Every now and then, a new site is coming to the forefront to give the existing sites a tough competition. Almost every business, whether trading in materials or services, launch a website page to endorse their trade in a larger domain. With the development of the virtual market, the concept of online business is becoming more and more significant. The approach made through the virtual media is much more appealing than the approach made through any other media.

Designing a website out of the scratch and tailoring it finely requires skill as well as proficiency. Expert web developers and web designers know the process of making it more attractive. The prime objective of any entrepreneur is to make the visitors stay more on their sites. With an aim of gaining more revenue in mind, the businessmen like to i mplement the best techniques that are suitable for the expansion of their trade. On the contrary, customized website designing is comparatively expensive as it requires more focus, attention and a lot of creativity as well.

The bigger tradesmen have already adopted the new trend, but there are dissensions regarding the question that whether designing a website is necessary for smaller businesses too. The recent surveys have proved it positive. In addition, some suggest that the trades which are comparatively smaller need a good website more for the further promotion and branding.

Websites are of two types, static and dynamic. Static web pages are non-volatile and can't be managed or modified by the users. On the other hand, the customers can easily make changes in dynamic web pages without having any kind of knowledge in coding and programming. The sections where the changes can be made are given below -

The images

The contents

The videos

The b logs

The templates

The slides

The animations

The users feel interested to modify these sites and thus pay attention to them. The benefits the small entrepreneurs can get if they adopt this technique are given below-

Establishment of brand name

This is something that every businessman wants. It is so true that all the successful large scale trade was once a smaller one. Merging your tiny organization into a big budget and internationally recognized brand can be implemented with the help of customized website designing. People will accept the sites which they find attractive.

Reputation and recognition

In this highly competitive market, users want sites that can catch their attention. Building repute is very important for the small trades to extend it into a larger one. The more the people can identify it, the more the reputation grows.

Packaging and interest

A good packaging sells anything perfectly. A dynamic web page makes your trading site more attractive.

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Source: Getting Great Custom Website Design For Your Business

A low-code User eXperience ‘design language’

Mendix Atlas UI is a low-code tool intended for software application developers who find themselves bereft of any perceptible level of 'front-end' development or UI design skills.

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Atlas can be used to define a standardised design language (to promote design best practices) across multiple autonomous development teams — this can help ensure that all apps conform to the organisation's own design principles.

Magical analyst house Gartner has estimated that there may be as few as one User eXperience (UX) designer for every 17 developers, a survey result that Menidx is keen to highlight.

Layered componentised UI

Mendix Atlas is described as a layered componentised UI framework with a web-based modelling tool featuring ready-to-use UI elements.

UIs are constructed through a combination of navigation layouts, page templates, building blocks (pre-configured assemblies of UI components) and widgets. Atlas assembles widgets in pre-configured layouts with optimal proportions, spacing and individual design properties.

The resulting app's visual style automatically reflects a selected visual theme – either one provided by Mendix or a custom theme created with the Theme Customiser.

Enterprise design language

According to Mendix, "All design elements can be packaged as enterprise design language modules and distributed via a private App Store, ensuring that the organisation's UI and design best practices are automatically employed across all Mendix development teams."

The Mendix Web Modeler is meant for developers (and power users) wanting to materialise their app ideas using Atlas design elements.

An integrated Toolbox enables discovery and drag-and-drop consumption of reusable building blocks and widgets. In addition, the Web Modeler bi-directionally syncs with the Desktop Modeler so developers can enhance prototypes with more complex logic and integrations, turning them into production applications.

Source: A low-code User eXperience 'design language'

11 User-Experience Stats to Guide Your Web Design in 2018

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The fundamental purpose of a website is to attract new visitors, keep the older ones and make them perform a specific action on your website. Now, every designer creates the website while keeping the above purpose in mind, while the site owner too keeps this in mind when uploading content and images. But, at times there are some factors that are overlooked which might cause the users to leave the page.

So, here in this blog we have mentioned 11 user-experience stats that one must consider when designing a website with a WordPress theme. Please take a look.

1) When given 15 minutes of time to see a content, two-thirds of people prefer to read material that has been designed beautifully rather than something with a plain design. Also, if your website content or layout is something that is hard for people to understand or has an unattractive layout, then 38% people will not engage with your content. The customer who had an unpleasant experience on your site is 88% less likely to return to your website.

[Source: Adobe]

2) Slow loading website has always been a problem for website owners. If the images on your site take too long to load or do not load at all, then 39% people won't spend any further time on your website. Retailers have lost to a tune of $2.6 billion in sales every year because their site was found to be too slow for the user. Call-to-action button is a feature that a site must have. Yet, out of 200 small business websites that were surveyed, 70% of them did not have any clear CTA button for anything such as specials, demos, etc. even on their home page.

[Source: Adobe]

3) Which website would you trust more- the one that has a thorough contact information or the one that has distorted contact information? Of course, the one that has thorough contact information, and this is what 51% people think. Also, if your website does not have a proper contact information like email ids or phone number, then 44% of the visitors tend to leave the site.

[Source: KoMarketing]

4) With smartphones ruling the digital world, nearly 2 of every 3 minute that is spent online comes from mobile device. There are 13% adults who use the internet on their mobile devices only, while there are 11% who use desktop to access internet. Nearly 40% of smartphone and tablet owners use these devices to search for B2B products.

[Source: ComScore]

5) When a visitor visits your website then 47% of them firstly check the company's product/service page.

[Source: KoMarketing]

6) Once you have a visitor who has visited your company's homepage, then:

86% of the visitors want to see information about the product/services that is being offered by the company.

64% of the visitors want to look at the contact information of the company.

52% of the visitor want to look at the 'About Us' information on the website.

[Source: KoMarketing]

7) Now, you would have visitors on your company's website coming from various referral sources. Out of them:

50% of the visitor will use the navigation menu to orient them.

36% of the visitor would click on the company's logo to visit the homepage.

[Source: KoMarketing]

8) Contrary to what most people think, infinite scrolling lowers the bounce rate. The reason is that most people use smartphones to access a website and thus it's easier for them to scroll up and down rather than clicking on links to visit several pages. For e.g. the bounce rate of time.com dropped by 15% after they started continuous scroll on their website.

[Source: Poynter]

9) Let's look at how revenues of a website depend on the web design elements-

If one has invested $10,000 in a design-centric company, then in 10 years it would have yielded 228% greater return as compared to the same investment being made in S&P.

Listening to your customer suggestion can be a fantastic way to increase one's revenue. ESPN.com did the same by incorporating suggestions from their customers and saw their revenue jump by 35%.

Bing chose blue over any other color and saw an additional $80 million in their annual revenue.

When you spent $1 on email marketing, the average return that you get is $44.25.

The probability of your customer climbing Mount Everest is 279.64 times more than the chances of them clicking on a banner ad.

[Source: dmi.org]

10) The first impression that a website creates is 94% design related. But, a website's overall aesthetics is 75% of times accountable for establishing a website credibility.

[Source: ResearchGate]

11) Since more people are using a smartphone to access the internet, 85% of the adult believe that the company's website should be as good as or better than the desktop website.

[Source: visual.ly]

Now, these are the several user-stats that can serve as a guide for you, when you are either designing or redesigning your website in 2018. What are your views? Comment below.

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Source: 11 User-Experience Stats to Guide Your Web Design in 2018