Sometimes I like to e-mail offending websites as an unassuming user-off-the-street and ask the dumb question -- why doesn't your website work the way I expect it to?
If these sites get enough negative feedback, it's like free user research, right? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/admin/help/popup/frame_pageAskQuestion.html On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:51 PM, mark schraad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could not agree more WIll. But in an economy of desperation, the quest for > short term profits will likely be changing the nature of what we come to > expect in blue underlined text. Search, and in particular search driven ads > are easy money. I would guess that those making the decision probably > rationalized that, your expected destination was just one more click once > you got 'all the interesting links' in front of you. And, if you clicked on > the paid for link... or another, then all the better. Is that more user > centric? > > Mark > > > On Jul 12, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Will Evans wrote: > >> Call me old school. Call me a dinosaur wandering the earth right before >> the >> meteor hit and turned my sorry butt to ash, but I still think a hyperlink >> should be a hyperlink. Further, I think a contextual link embedded in >> content with a anchored link a proper noun should go to that place. The >> Washington Post disagrees. Someone there, (cerntainly no one on this >> list), >> probably some horned sulfurous smelling marketing troll decided that a >> link >> should be something different. >> >> I was reading this article "*Take Time to Rewind at the Hirshhorn's >> 'Realisms" *here: http://tinyurl.com/5z2qvx -- and decided that I really >> wanted more information, and to get down to the Hirshhorn and check out >> the >> exhibit. Right there in the middle of the article is Hirschhorn Museum, >> underlined, as if it was a hyperlink. I thought to myself, "Self - if I >> click this I will go to the Hirshhorn Museum website and see >> when/where/how >> what about this so I can catch it this weekend." >> >> The link did not go to the Hirschhorn Museum website. >> >> It submits a search to the WP website querying all related articles >> matching >> the the string Hirshorn Museum. From the results page there is no way to >> get >> info about the actual museum, it's website URL, or even a profile on the >> museum. Guess what? I didn't want to search for related items to >> Hirschorn >> on the WP website. If I wanted to do a search, I would enter it into a >> search box and click search. When I see a hyperlinked proper noun - it >> sure >> as hirshorn better take me somewhere I expect. >> >> Thoughts? Any other examples of "links behaving badly?" "links gone wild?" >> >> -- >> ~ will >> >> "Where you innovate, how you innovate, >> and what you innovate are design problems" >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Will Evans | User Experience Architect >> tel +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> twitter: https://twitter.com/semanticwill >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
