[thelist] What makes a good web site?
Luther, Ron
Ron.Luther at hp.com
Wed Oct 18 15:17:14 CDT 2006
alan herrell noted that [many || most] web experiences are linear in
nature ...
>>Tabbed Browsing is for geeks. Nobody else cares.......
>>Most folks, I have found, work sequentially, rather than multi task,
especially on the web.
Hi Alan,
Good point. And I would agree that for folks looking for a good price
on a new digital
camera, or researching a medical condition, or checking up on their
local sports
team, or any one of a bazillion other very common activities the
sequential model
holds: check one site for information, if good -> continue, else (or
when done) try
another site ... and is, therefore, probably a very good generalization.
Looks like I inadvisably projected my own small area of expertise. An
easy mistake
to make. I was working in IntraNet reporting. Some of our reports were
very large
and would take a long time to execute and return results to the user.
Our users
(and I) quickly learned to multi-task, (reading email / opening another
browser
window to read the news / etc.), while waiting for the results we needed
in order
to continue our sequential work-path. [When you _know_ that SQL
statement you
just kicked off is going to take 20 minutes to complete that full table
scan
you requested, you _will_ find other things to do while you wait.] It's
probably
more akin to reading a magazine in the dentist's waiting room than
actual multi-tasking.
RonL.
[Hi Norman! Yeah, I remember MBWA! I used to keep a xerox copy of a
'Management
By Walking Around" article in a three ring binder on my desk ... a
looooong time ago.]
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