1. Know what is important. 1. Bring users to your site, 2. Ensure usefulness and usability, 3. Maximize trust. You will make much more money trying to bring users to your site and ensuring good usability than trying to have beautiful flash and look. Most users care only about finding rapidly what they are looking for and achieving their goals. They don’t care (more…)
Entries categorized as ‘Thomas Tullis’
10 things to do for the success of your web site – the practitioner view
December 1, 2007 · 8 Comments
Categories: Cognitive Egonomics · Cognitive Engineering · HCI · Human Computer Interaction · Human Factors · Interaction Design · Jacob Nielsen · SEO · Thomas Tullis · Usability · User Experience · Web usability · cognitive group
Tagged: Jacob Nielsen, Usability, Web Design
On the Size of Font
November 18, 2007 · 5 Comments
Just back from SanFrancisco, I was trying to find an address in Montreal.
I had to slow down in order to read the street name. While slowing down, a car almost hit my back bumper! Hope it doesn’t sound familiar but I am sure it happens frequently. (more…)
Categories: Cognitive Egonomics · Cognitive Engineering · Thomas Tullis · User Experience · cognitive ergonomics · cognitive group
Tagged: City Planning, Font size, Street Names, Thomas Tullis
Making and add effective: why Useful Field of View (UFOV) is so important
December 1, 2006 · 2 Comments
You are glancing everywhere searching for information on your computer screen. Soon, you start to feel frustrated and lose patience. Suddenly someone come to your rescue. Standing just behind your shoulder, this helper rapidly points out where to look on the screen. You may or may not have experienced it but this story is related to the notion of Useful Field of View (UFOV).
Categories: Cognitive Eggineering · Cognitive Egonomics · Google · HCI · Human Computer Interaction · Thomas Tullis · Usability · Web usability · cognitive ergonomics
