Usability – User Friendliness
A good user experience is our passion. We put the user with his needs in the centre of our Web projects. Our objective involves readily comprehensible and easily operated digital products.
Usability is the general user friendliness of a product, in this case - of a web application. The objective is to achieve a simple, intuitive and quick operation of a website for all users. A good usability usually goes unnoticed with the users, a bad one – even more so.
What counts in Usability
The usability indicates how friendly a product is for its user, in short: user friendliness. Also the fitness for purpose and the intuitive user guidance are terms which describe well the usability of software programmes, websites, user interfaces and design.
Already over 20 years ago, usability expert Jacob Nielsen determined 5 principles defining the quality of usability:
Learnability: How easy it is for users to complete basic tasks when they are dealing with the product for the first time?
Efficiency: How quickly can users finish their tasks once they got to know the design (product)?
Memorability: How easy is it for the users to find their way when they want to go back to the design (product) after a while?
Errors: How many mistakes do the users make? How serious are those mistakes? How easily can they get over those mistakes?
Satisfaction: How enjoyable is it to utilise the design (product)?
A poor usability of a website has numerous negative consequences:
The website is not speaking for itself. It is not clear for the user what the company is offering and what he can do on the website.
The user cannot find the essential products or information.
The user is frustrated, is quitting the website and is switching over to the competition.
On the other hand, if a user comes across a website with high usability, he or she stays on the site with a good feeling of satisfaction – with many positive effects:
The user remains longer on the website.
The user can find the products and services he is looking for.
The user becomes a customer.
The user recommends the site further to his friends and acquaintances.
Usability is like cooking: everybody needs the results, anybody can do it reasonably well with a bit of training, and yet it takes a master to produce a gourmet outcome.
Jakob Nielsen
Anybody Can Do Usability, 2009
We are the number one in usability among web agencies
Our awards show that we have the expertise in the Usability field! According to the usability ranking of the Best of Swiss Web, we are Number 1 among the agencies:
Usability Experts with vast experience: Only in a competent project team, each role can bring the crucial impact on the user friendliness. At Unic, this team is made up of information architects and designers, frontend and backend developers as well as test managers and project managers.
Expert review: Our usability experts will verify and evaluate your website based on pre-determined criteria for your user friendliness and check if it is meeting user needs. You will receive the summarised results in a report.
Usability tests: In order to verify the user friendliness of a website, we recommend so-called usability tests to be run. They should be carried out as early as possible during the development phase in order to be able point out any potential usability problems at an early stage. We will gladly plan and carry out the usability tests for you.
Contact for your Digital Solution with Unic
Book an appointmentAre you keen too discuss your digital tasks with us? We would be happy to exchange ideas with you: Jörg Nölke and Gerrit Taaks (from left to right).
Contact for your Digital Solution
Book an appointmentAre you keen to talk about your next project? We will be happy exchange ideas with you: Melanie Klühe, Stefanie Berger, Stephan Handschin and Philippe Surber (clockwise).
Our Competencies in Experience Platforms
We contribute our expertise to strategic planning, the development of the central theme, the implementation and the technical and content aspects of operation.