How to make content useful

The successfulness of content relies on the usability and user experience of it

People like looking at content that is easy to follow and useful to them. We improve elements within our content to make it “user-friendly,” such as writing, typography, visuals and other details. We also do this so our content is more helpful to our audiences. Visual content is heavily focused on this idea, to increase the user experience and usability of the content it is presenting. The Functional Art, Usability Geek and Interaction Design discuss and showcase content that carters to these ideas.

The Functional Art

Interactive graphics accompany a blog post about Google searches. This way users have both text and visuals to understand the content. Using both increases the user-experience of the content.

UsabilityGeek

Usability Geek focuses on multiple elements of user experience. They focus on the idea of improving the usability and user experience of the content by following the successfulness of the content they present.

Interaction-Design

Another way to improve the usability and user experience of your content is by looking at the form and layout of your content. This blog talks about the golden ratio of both so there is an improvement of how the content looks.

Conclusion

There are multiple ways to improve the usability and user experience. Looking at the visual and textual aspects of our content can help improve these two aspects. These three blogs showcase the multiple ways usability and user-experience is used and improved in content.