Posted by sharonklardie on March 10, 2008 at 5:44pm
Hi,
I came across this web site and thought i would pass this along. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ one article jumped out at me - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/fancy-formatting.html shows eye tracking / heat map of users who were tasked with finding the population of a country -- and the 86% of users failed to find the information - i have not read the other articles but i will be reviewing them over the next couple of weeks to see if there is anything else that jumps out at me.
Smile
Sharon
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This is a good laugh
Isnn't this unbelievable - the population number right at the top and big in red - though not found. The web makes me LOL
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Jeffery Veen on CMS's
Hey,
Not sure where to post this, but an interesting view of Jeffery Veen on CMS's. Some short quote's :
"Remember: 98 percent of your audience will be using the CMS to manage their Web sites, not to manage the system. Yet most systems are optimized for the other 2 percent."
"I don’t know what a portlet is. Or a component, module, block, or snippet. The last system I evaluated had something called “mambots” which, to me, sounded like robotic assistance for breast-feeding.
Are you making up words to promote your differentiation in the market? If so, stop it. It’s confusing. Please just use simple words to describe the things your system does."
"What I experienced was obtuse and complex software that was packed with gratuitous features at the expense of usability and user experience. It was software written by geeks, for geeks."
http://adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000365.php
Its an old one, but just as applicable today.
Regards,
Bojhan