Animation isn’t just decorative — when used strategically, it improves usability, guides attention, and reduces friction in digital products. This article covers UX animation principles, examples, tools, and best practices for using motion to enhance user experience without distracting or overwhelming users.
AI-powered eCommerce platforms are changing the game for personalization, automation, and business growth. This guide compares Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, and emerging platforms to help product leaders choose the right AI-driven solution for their goals in 2025.
Choosing the best CMS for health organizations can feel like navigating a maze, especially with unique needs like HIPAA compliance, multilingual support, and user-friendly content management. While many CMS platforms exist, WordPress, Drupal, and (to some extent) Craft CMS often rise to the top of the list when healthcare leaders are making decisions.
Page builder to come with WordPress core If you have a WordPress site, it’s likely you’ve heard about a new feature that was released recently as a beta and will be part of the WordPress 5.0 update: Gutenberg. Gutenberg is WordPress’ answer to the demands for page builders. For many years, plugins, like Visual Composer…
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in business, and it can intimidate or frustrate anyone who wants to manage their own marketing and advertising. There are many agencies that specialize in SEO and paid search (think Google AdWords); however, if these services are outside your current budget, there…
Have you ever gone to a website and clicked a link and gotten a 404 error page instead? Super annoying! Either that page has been moved, or it’s been deleted. As a site owner, this sort of error will hurt your SEO and your search engine rankings. Instead of having your users get an error page,…
Designing for privacy compliance isn’t just about meeting legal requirements. It’s about building trust with your users and creating an experience that keeps them coming back.
There are times when you want to move your website to a new hosting provider. On the surface, you would think it’s pretty simple. However, there are a few things you need to make sure you do, in a particular order, to ensure the process is as painless as possible. Here are the 5 steps…
Why website performance optimization matters In today’s digital world, users expect websites to load instantly. Website performance optimization isn’t just about speed; it directly impacts user satisfaction, brand perception, and conversion rates. A site that loads slowly can frustrate users, increase bounce rates, and even harm your search engine ranking. In this guide, we’ll explore…
Many of the articles you find online that speak about using Markdown are mostly explaining the “What” and the “How”. But what about the “Why”? Answer: Tons of reasons. Let’s go over just a few! Ubiquitous support So yeah, weird to have the first point be “well, everyone is using it”. But it’s probably the…
Sass is wonderful. Simple as that. Of all the tools I’ve come across as a web developer, none come close to the high amount usage that Sass gets in my workflow. Love for this preprocessor has grown so much over the years that it has helped influence the future standardization of CSS4. The idea that we are bringing parts of CSS up to the…
WordPress is more than a blog — it’s a powerful CMS in the right hands With WordPress owning almost 60% of the market share, it’s still shocking when people seem to turn their nose up when we mention we develop on this platform. Instead of acting apologetic, we should be saying “Hell yeah, we develop…
One of the things I love about working in technology is building refined and intuitive tools that make things easier for people. Most of the time these arise from dealing with challenges. The school picker challenge One of the challenges we ran into was letting users (who were coaches for a program) pick the school…
This is a common question among business owners who are trying to cut costs by designing their websites themselves. With the growing amount of online tutorials, software, and platforms like Wix, Squarespace, and Weebly, it is becoming more commonplace for businesses to try build their own websites instead of hiring an outside company. While those free platforms can…
WordPress mistakes can significantly hinder your website’s performance and user experience. And it doesn’t have to be like that.
Standard Beagle is an AI UX agency based in Austin, TX. We help B2B SaaS and health tech companies create better product experiences with smart strategy, user-first research, and ethical AI workflows.
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