Mobile Email Newsletters
October 22, 2012
Mobile use strengthens email marketing's benefits by offering ubiquitous newsletter access, but it also introduces new usability limitations for template design.
Evidence-Based User Experience Research, Training, and Consulting
NN/g has conducted 5 major research studies on the usability of email newsletters:
Our design guidelines for newsletter user experience are now based on systematic studies of 270 newsletters across 124 participants, as well as single-user testing of several hundred additional newsletters that study participants already received in their personal inboxes.
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