A Guide to User Experience Job Salaries, Skills and Hot Hiring Locations

User experience (UX) is a rapidly growing profession that’s attracting high caliber talent from all areas of design, development and marketing. Over the past 16 months, creative recruiting company Onward Search collected data on job listings and noticed a 338 percent increase in postings for user experience professionals. Onward Search commissioned my company, NowSourcing, to take that data and create this graphic.

5 Web Accessibility Improvement Tools

Over the past few weeks we’ve been showcasing some amazing articles, tools, and videos in our Resources section. Our twitter followers have gotten a taste of these resources and have let us know they are really enjoying them! Today I would like to share some tools with you that focus on accessibility, a very important sector of user experience.

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Here are some tools you may find useful increase accessibility, a constant battle that UX designers have to face:

(More) Useful Web Usability Testing Tools

Usability and User Experience (UX) are two extremely important factors for developing a site or app that really stands out from the competition. With the increasing competition in sites and apps, there are also an ever increasing number of tools to help you make your site or app more usable, and to help you ensure you provide a great experience for your users.

Tools to Improve Your Website’s Usability

Usability testing is test conducted to collect feedback and information from your website’s visitors or regular readers that can be very useful for future website revamp, enhancement or other adjustments. Designers and developers may have created websites according to specifications, but ultimately it is the users who will decide its creditability (how far it is usable), the highlights of the site and what does it lack of.

How to know whether a visitor likes your website? Usability tools provide an answer to this by tracking user’s actions. The tracked data gives you a precision of what a user like about your site, which area is the most prominent, most used and places which most users avoid. Do not underestimate the data collected because these figures can significantly boost up your site’s performance in terms of sales conversion rate, click-through and more.

Useful Wireframing and Prototyping Tools

Concept of globalization hits the world with ceaseless creativity and imagination amongst people ranging from the youths to the elders. Judging by the fact that creativity produces opportunities in the field of marketing, wireframing and prototyping are definitely in the list. These are tools which not only make your websites appear to be nice and neat, but also attracting.

Using Tools & APIs To Track Your Social Media Strategy

Social media is becoming increasingly important for SEO. Just in the last week we’ve seen the launch of Google +1 and early correlation data showing Facebook shares are highly correlated with rankings.

In this post I’m going to walk through a bunch of different ways of tracking your social media strategy. We’ll start with the basic/easy stuff and move up to more complicated things (Google Docs! APIs! Mmmmm)