I find most do. I think there is a wide disparity depending on who you
work with. Over time we are going to move to a much more educated group
of users. Students coming out of college now are highly computer
literate and web savvy. The next generation of users growing up using
myspace and linked in are not going to have problems using the back
button. And they will be used to seeing various different types of
links actually used rather than what we say they "should" be. On the
other and the current older generation which makes up a lot of senior
managements 50+ age group may be the group you are discussing. One
group has never known a world without the web and sees it an an integral
part of their generations social identity while the other group first
started to use it as needed for business.
Michael Horowitz
Your Computer Consultant
http://yourcomputerconsultant.com
561-394-9079
Designer wrote:
Keryx Web wrote:
Underlines on paper have no usability impact, since you cant click on
it! Underlines on web pages have a usability impact, since people
think they are clickable links.
Just out of interest, I did a site map recently and all the links were
red and underlined, at least on hover. The client moaned and didn't
like the red or the underline. I explained that it was 'standard
convention for links'. The response was "oh, I didn't realise that!".
Thing is, this person and her current staff of three have been using a
PC since 1998. No one else knew either. So I did a simple test on all
of them. NO-one (that's big fat zero) knew what the 'back-button' was
. . .
This is what I find time and time again. Contrary to some of the
comments l hear on this list, my experience is such that most computer
users haven't got the first clue about how to use their machines, even
after ten years . . .
I wish we had real information on this, because it has a direct
bearing on whether we should be holding users hands whilst designing a
site, or assuming (wrongly) that users have 'choices'. (open in a new
tab? you must be joking!!)
Bob
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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