Create a User Friendly Web Audience Awareness Aesthetics Logic
Know your user.
Pew Research Center % of all US households own a computer 76% have home internet access ( 3% dial up) 73% regularly use public access internet 86% own smart phones 40% own a game console 19% own e-readers ( Down -13%)
Most likely to be … Middle aged (30-49 years old 83%) Asian (95%) or Hispanic (12% growth) Rich (87% earn 75K or more) College Educated (96%) Male (.7% greater chance) Employed (11% greater chance)
He visits 1,268 pages per month, but only 15 sites regularly( Nielsen.com).
He prefers
He reads only 20% of your text and what he reads he does at a rate of 4.4 seconds per 100 words
. The fact is that he is just not going to read a whole lot of text no matter how important it is.
Image via Flickr user mathoov Image via Flickr user niallkennedy Adapted from: “Gates, Jobs & the Zen aesthetic” by Garr Reynolds Apples and Oranges: Web Design History
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What can we learn?
less is. more.
Data is good.
The ½ the screen you see shows: Final Scores from Five Games Access to 8+ Sport Categories 19 Tag Lines for Articles Four trending topics Two videos Multiple Ads
Don’t Dumb it Down. Organize it.
Don’t clutter your. space.
Think about the aesthetics.
Programmers are the graphic artists of the tech industry. Graphic Design 35% Decline since 1984
Be consistent. font layout punctuation
but some Contrast is good.
3 Clicks and You’re OUT!
Every link must work.
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balance text and visuals.
. …or blue space.
. Clip Art is cliché.
. make ‘em pucker. Adapted from: “Management Training: Why Does Most Training Not Work” byScott Warrick
Respect opyright
Don’t let this
turn into. this.
. Thank you.