There were a series of articles by Joshua David McClurg-Genevese
(http://www.digital-web.com/about/contributors/joshua_david_mcclurg_genevese)
at Digital Web Magazine about general principles of design, in which
he talks about some good-old Gestalt principles:
* Balance
* Rhythm
* Pr
I think running analytics locally with something like urchin would do the
trick with a well thought out script.
Thanks for your concern.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Etan Lightstone wrote:
> Angel, I'm curious how you conducted this 'theoretical' usability
> study...
>
> It sounds like the o
Angel, I'm curious how you conducted this 'theoretical' usability
study...
It sounds like the one you described was treated like a focus group,
asking opinion questions about preferences to A vs B. This typically
produces questionable results, and is too prone to being manipulated
by the facilita
Given that there is lots of other content (advertisements and such) in
the same column as the photo, it is not self-evident that the photo is
part of the article. Also, from a search engine and accessibility
perspective it's better to group related information, and also to
push the relevant content
>>It's no use testing bad designs. A-B-testing will only work if
both alternatives are good (good enough to meet the requirements).
I agree. Their was no problem with the prototypes, they both achieved the
desired result efficiently with different layouts.
>>If there's an opinion war after testing
It's no use testing bad designs. A-B-testing will only work if both
alternatives are good (good enough to meet the requirements).
If there's an opinion war after testing, then I would think that the
design problem wasn't clear to start with. Did the stakeholders agree
on what problem the design sh
>>NoJ was saying you should have fired whoever you had doing your
facilitating.
Ha, I was hoping that was the case. I wish I could have done something
constructive to remedy the situation.
>>Let me see if I have this right: The test was in the form of a series of
single user tests where each
I think the prototypes were from fireworks. Off hand I don't remember
exactly what I was citing, I was new and I didn't go into battle mode when
it didn't make sense.
It was totally apparent though. people were smiling, verbally saying why
they liked such and such as opposed to looking befuddled an
No kidding...I'm with Jared on this one.
What evidence are they citing? For that matter, what evidence are
*you* citing? What on earth format were you using to evaluate these
prototypes?
This has all the earmarks of something that was a total cockup from
the planning stages.
kt
Katie A
On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Angel Marquez wrote:
What would you do in this situation:
You work for a company and you are doing usability testing. You are
providing your research subjects with prototypes from 2 outside
vendors. The research subjects clearly prefer using prototype B.
Afte
I agree, completely. Usability testing should be the answer. After all that
is what the hoopla is all about, right?
What would you do in this situation:
You work for a company and you are doing usability testing. You are
providing your research subjects with prototypes from 2 outside vendors. The
On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Kordian Piotr Klecha wrote:
As for now we have opinion vs opinion, so I am looking for stronger
arguments.
I highly recommend usability testing. Great way to resolve these
opinion wars.
Jared
Jared M. Spool
User Interface Engineering
510 Turnpike St., Suite 1
Articles consist of typical elements: heading, lead, main text and photo(s);
usually there is also some box with "inform a friend", "rate the article",
comments and so on.
I am looking for a studies focusing on this topic: proper web-article
layout.
We are discussing proposed layout of articles i
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