User+Experience

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 * "’User Experience’, often abbreviated ‘UX’, is the quality of experience a person has when interacting with a specific design” (Knemeyer and Syoboda)**

With the ever expanding reach of the Internet to consumers, future commercial practices will require companies to not only target users within a specific physical location but to those that are connected to the Internet regardless of their physical location. As more companies bring their services and products online, websites play an important role in bridging the gap between the producers and the users.

Employing websites designed with UX in mind provides benefits to both the producers and the users.

Companies that employ websites with a high degree of User Experience provide users with the assurance that the company places an emphasis on having the customers as their main priority. A high level of customer satisfaction is achievable through the use of UX in the design of a website.

Elements of UX
According to Morville, websites designed with UX in mind should be
 * ===Useful===
 * Innovative designs that would be useful to users should be employed within the website.
 * ===Usable===
 * Ease of use should be a main element of every design including website design
 * ===Desirable===
 * A design must be desirable to users through the use of elements in emotional design
 * ===Findable===
 * Users of an object must be able to navigate and find the information they need
 * ===Accessible===
 * Designs should be accessible to everyone regardless of their physical conditions
 * ===Credible===
 * Each design should be designed to encourage the trust and believe of users
 * ===Valuable===
 * Website designed with UX in mind should be valuable to the owners. It should provide good customer satisfaction.

//Producers//

 * Through the use of UX, producers are able to create an environment which consumers are to gain positive experience. Having a good experience using a particular website motivates the consumer to return to the same website for future business transactions.
 * Attract and retain more customers through the use of elements that put customers priority first

//Consumers//

 * Given access to a UX designed website provides consumers with an enjoyable experience.

Work Cited
Knemeyer, D., & Syoboda, E. (December 28 2005). //User Experience or UX//. October 3, 2006, from http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/user_experience_or_ux.html.

Morville, P. (June 21, 2004). //User Experience Design//. October 3, 2006, from http://www.semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php.