[thelist] Do women view web pages differently from men?

[AtdtXav]

Yeah, I tend to avoid buttons for multiple reasons.  First of
all, I was a BBS kid, hardcore.  Second, I'm extremely wary of
ads and tricks online.  Third, I like to know where I'm going
before I click on something, and most buttons don't give you
that.

I don't think I miss very much in the way of links on the web. 
I figured out the india page (with the pull-over bar on the
right) fairly quickly.  Then again, I'm not much like the
average guy. *grins*

When I'm creating a site for myself, as in my own personal site,
I like to have as few distractions as possible... even though I
work up pretty designs for other companies, my own are very
simple, and 90% of the links are text.

I have a "photos" section where I'll have a largish thumbnail
next to a discription, and at the top of the whole page it says
something akin to "please select an image to see more".  A lot
of people (more women than men, actually) miss that, and don't
realize that the images lead to more detail.

-Scott


--- Ron White <ronwhite at members.evolt.org> wrote:
> Moiself reads more than looks at images. Might be because I
> read a lot
> offline and my first intro to the Internet was with email and
> chat rooms,
> both being nuttin' but text... *shrug*
> 
> Reckon its like Joe said, set some people down to look at yer
> site...
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron White
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Joe
> Crawford
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:00 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Do women view web pages differently
> from men?
> 
> 
> Fortune Elkins wrote:
> > >utterly unable to 'see' any text links
> >
> > funny. i have here an article where the head usability guy
> from yahoo sez
> > all his tests show that users can't see buttons, they see
> only text links!
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/11/technology/11SIMP.html
> 
> And how do we resolve these kinds of conflicts?
> 
> We must TEST!
> 
> No amount of theory and speculation can match the pure hellish
> wonderfulness (testing is crucial, but painful) of actually
> testing
> designs to see how users can understand and misunderstand
> them.
> Sometimes you can use their misunderstandings to your
> advantage.
> 
> I say again:
>   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0789723107/
> 
> 	- Joe "beating a dead horse" Crawford
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