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Ingin mengetahui sesuatu yang merugikan anda pelawat, wang dan masa, tetapi mudah dicegah?

Ini adalah mitos yang difikirkan oleh pasukan pemasaran anda (dan mungkin juga orang yang lebih tinggi dalam rantaian arahan) tentang reka bentuk tapak dan pengalaman pengguna, mempercayainya hanya kerana seseorang yang mempunyai sedikit kemasyhuran mengatakannya, dan semua orang hanya berkata “Ya, Bunyinya betul!”

Ujian pengguna tidak begitu saintifik

The problem is, these claims aren’t subjected to the most rigorous form of scientific testing, and the people doing the checking aren’t normally real scientists. There can be exceptions, but even then it’s not perfect.

There’s this pesky thing called “berat sebelah tindak balas“, where a respondent will answer questions with what they think you want to hear instead of what they really feel, because deep down they want you to like them. That’s also the reason my brother is taking divipelajaran ng.

Walaupun dalam keadaan di mana penyelidik mengambil tindakan tegas pendirian pemerhatian, there’s still a problem, because they’re making assumptions. Did the user skim past all that information because it was boring, or because it was something they were already familiar with, or perhaps it just wasn’t relevant to them personally?

Penonton rawak tidak berguna untuk menguji kandungan khusus

Seorang petani mungkin membaca kandungan politik kerana mungkin relevan dengan bagaimana dia mencari nafkah, tetapi adakah artikel tentang hiasan dalaman akan menarik minatnya, seberapa baik ia ditulis? Secara umum, hanya jika petani itu mempunyai minat yang tulen untuk hiasan dalaman.

An actual decorator or somebody who is in the process of buying a new home, however, could be riveted by the same content. KissMetrics says: “Aggregate data is kinda worthless,” and indeed they’re right.

Ujian pengguna mesti disasarkan, dan hampir tidak pernah ada

These problems and many others contribute to misunderstandings. The difficulty is that it’s sebelah mustahil bagi sesiapa sahaja untuk mengumpulkan jumlah orang yang mencukupi dalam ceruk dan demografi tertentu untuk ujian kebolehgunaan. Oleh itu, mereka sama ada menggunakan persampelan rawak, atau mereka menipu, dan sebahagian dari mereka hanya berbohong.

The bottom line is you can’t rely on usability testing because it’s too generalizing. It doesn’t look at the typical user of your site, it just looks at the average man in the street, and that’s a much bigger problem than it’s given credit for.

Testing also doesn’t take into account that individuals are variable. There may be times when I enjoy the company of others, but other times I’d prefer to be alone. If you ask me, the answer will depend to some extent on how I’m feeling at that exact moment, and whether or not we’re in a bathroom.

So what are the main myths that are potentially costing us? Let’s take a look at a few examples.

1. There’s a perfect template or formula for a website

If that was true, the definition of perfection wouldn’t keep changing. Carousels and infinite scroll were marvels to behold the first few times they were used. Now people are fed up to the back teeth with them.

Your infinite scroll may hold my interest for a while, but once the inevitable (yes, inevitable) browser memory leak kicks in, I’m going to hate you with a great deal of intensity, and I may never visit your site again. The more graphical your content is on an infinitely scrolling page, the faster the browser will max out. I’m looking at anda, Tumblr.

So, anyway, this myth is one that clueless marketing desk jockeys and lazy web developers like to perpetuate (and some actually believe it themselves), but there’s not a grain of truth to it.

They just want the boss to like their 1-3-2-3-1 design, which opens with a carousel wrapped inside a jumbotron div, followed by 3 dutiful columns with an image and a short blurb (complete with “more” link), and so on. There’s nothing surprising there, and that’s actually part of the problem.

If a user visits 10 different pages and they’re all pretty much the same, it’s not going to increase the chance that they’ll buy from you. Itu hanya akan mematikannya. People thrive on variety and they don’t want everything to be the same.

You don’t want to be tinggi berbeza, cuma berbeza di mana ia penting – berikan mereka kehebatanformation and a bit of eye candy. They’ll love you.

2. Anda perlu menulis semuanya pada angka 4th tahap gred

Ini mungkin berlaku jika demografi utama anda sama sekali asing, atau kebanyakannya 4th graduan. The anggapan bahawa orang pada dasarnya tidak terlalu pintar is actually insulting. Nobody is going to give up on a site because they don’t know a word or two.

Besides, if you believe the third myth, you’re not expecting them to read it anyway. It’s easy to understand where this myth originated from.

The pool of people available for usability testing is too diverse, except in one special way. It is composed of people who have time to participate in usability testing. Last time I checked, people with important jobs don’t generally have time to waste on things like this, and the important jobs tend to go to the smartest people.

What this means, as you’ve no doubt already figured out, is that many of those who have time to participate in studies are not the sharpest tools in the shed. There are perhaps not a full quota of kangaroos bounding around in the top paddock. The lamp may be lit, but dimly. You can see where this is going, right?

It’s no surprise then, that a fair few of these people will have complaints about high level language that is beyond the limits of their vocabulary.

High level language is efficient. It lets you communicate more meaning with less words and less ambiguity. It doesn’t mean you slide all the way over into academic language, because that would be equally silly and disastrous. You need content with balanced language, like the content of this article.

If people don’t know a word, there are plug-ins that can define the word for them in an instant. They’ve just got to be smart enough to figure out how to install those plug-ins.

Write your content in natural language, trying to be as clear as possible. You don’t have to dumb it down, and you certainly shouldn’t smarten it up. Just make it natural everyday language like you’d ordinarily speak.

3. People don’t bother to read long form content

Ini hanya tidak benar. You don’t need to keep everything short. What you need to do is keep everything interesting. And even more importantly, provide all the information yang mereka perlukan. Kerana Bahawa adalah sebab mereka sampai di laman web anda, dan Bahawa adalah sebab mengapa mereka boleh memilih untuk berniaga dengan anda dan bukannya orang lain. Siapa yang akan saya percayai? Syarikat yang menyembunyikan semua data dan enggan memberitahu saya harganya kecuali saya melepaskan alamat e-mel saya? Atau lelaki yang meletakkan semua kad mereka di atas meja?

And while we’re at it, let’s stop hiding content behind “more” links, stop paginating things unnecessarily, and avoid turning everything into a slide show. None of these tactics create a good UX. They’re bad for accessibility, bad for usability, and they’re just downright annoying.

Show things. If you’re hiding anything, it better be for a good reason. The bottom line is, if people aren’t reading you’re content, it’s because you’re boring, not because there’s too much of it.

4. Peraturan kandungan video (dan latar belakang video hebat)

Complete myth. Video content is useful where it’s appropriate, but shouldn’t be inserted just for its own sake. If your video adds something to the user experience by providing entertainment or information (preferably both), it’s worth including. Otherwise ia tidak mempunyai tempat di halaman web.

Video autoplay ialah perkara yang paling menjengkelkan you can do, and it’s even worse when the autoplay content is an ad. Video backgrounds can look really cool too, but are you using one because it’s gratifying to you or gratifying to me? Let’s remember who is important in the website transaction. It’s the user, right?

Oleh itu, anda harus menggunakan latar belakang video dengan berhati-hati, dengan cara yang benar-benar hebat, dan dengan hebat consideration for the user’s bandwidth. It should always be possible to disable or skip the video, or view a version of the site that doesn’t include it.

Video content also doesn’t do much to attract visitors at the moment unless you include captions (not auto-generated). There’s a chance Google will read your subtitle file and add points to your index. That might still be a little way in the future. But you’ll get points for accessibility anyhow.

5. It’s OK to let Google translate your web pages for you

No, it’s not OK. You can’t let any automated service handle your translations if you’re a professional business. Don’t be cheap. Spring for a real live human being to translate your site for you. An terjemahan tidak profesional mungkin lebih buruk daripada tidak ada terjemahan sama sekali.

6. Semua orang suka tatal tak terhingga

Really, infinite scroll can keep somebody on your page for longer, and you might think that’s a good thing. In a way it can be, but there’s a big problem with it, terutamanya jika anda mempunyai banyak gambar.

Browsers like Chrome create a new CPU process and new memory space for every tab that’s open simultaneously. As the user scrolls more and more content on your page, its tab process and memory space is going to grow larger, until it reaches a critical point where the user’s system slows down.

At this point, if the user is lucky, they’ll be quick enough to close your page that it won’t crash the browser or the entire system. They won’t always be so fortunate, and what they’re going to remember is that it was your site that caused the trouble for them.

First impressions count, but so do last impressions. Don’t let the last impression a visitor has of you be that you’re annoying.

Apa yang anda dapat dari semua ini

Users don’t fit into neat little stereotypes the way marketing “experts” want to believe they do. People are all individuals, and when we design sites for them (and it’s always for them, never for the people who hired you to design it), we need to respect them as indiviganda.

A good host doesn’t get in the way of the visitor, doesn’t interfere in what the visitor wants to do (as long as it’s not going to cause any harm), and doesn’t hide information daripada pelawat. Itulah ciri-ciri tuan rumah yang buruk.

As a good host, you’ll want to be open, unobtrusive, and helpful. You’ll guide the user without forcing their hand, and you’ll make things easy for them without being condescending.

Lakukan perkara-perkara ini dengan betul, dan laman web anda mempunyai peluang yang cukup berbeza untuk menarik perhatian dan mengubah perhatian itu menjadi tindakan.

If you still haven’t quite got it squared pergi, petua mengenai artikel ini from Oprah’s website apply just as much to hosting a website as they do to hosting guests in your home.

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Bogdan Rancea

Bogdan adalah ahli pengasas Inspired Mag, yang telah mengumpulkan hampir 6 tahun pengalaman dalam tempoh ini. Pada masa lapang dia suka belajar muzik klasik dan mendalami seni visual. Dia juga taksub dengan fixies juga. Dia sudah memiliki 5 orang.

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