Neoupa Worst Practices Final
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This document discusses best and worst practices in web usability. It identifies several poor practices such as assuming icons alone will improve usability without testing, relying only on internal testing rather than user research, and using splash pages or tutorials to compensate for poor design rather than improving the core design. It also notes cognitive limits like Miller's 7±2 rule for chunking information and discusses how overconfidence, meaningless metrics, and lack of user understanding can lead to bad design choices rather than actual user needs.
Neoupa Worst Practices Final
- 1. Best Practices in Web Usability WORST
- 2. Why?
- 3. Why?
- 4. Google: October 19 “Jesus Christ” 34.7 million results “The Devil” 46.8 million results
- 5. Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,847 in Toys & Games Google: “Darth Vader”: 3 million results Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #67,414 in Toys & Games Google: “Luke Skywalker”: 1 million results
- 6. Part 1: In Ohio it is illegal to get a fish drunk (or, Stupid 'Rules')
- 7. Icons will make it more usable!
- 8. Icons will make it more usable!
- 9. Invent your own Icons! Browse Products Core Offerings Browse Products by Type Power Management IT / Server Room Management
- 10. The magical number 7 (plus or minus 2)
- 11. The magical number 7 (plus or minus 2) Hierarchical Navigation Speed: 2:27 Accuracy: <33% List of 200 terms Speed: 1:15 Accuracy: >66%
- 12. If the site's hard to use, we can just put up a tutorial.
- 13. If the site's hard to use, we can just put up a tutorial. Web Design is just like Graphic Design (part 2)s
- 14. Web Design is just like Graphic Design
- 15. Web Design is just like Graphic Design
- 16. Web Design is just like Graphic Design
- 17. Web Design is just like Graphic Design
- 18. Use an Splash Page
- 19. Use an Splash Page, we could always use a Skip Intro button
- 20. Part 2: I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV (or, How to Pretend to do User Research)
- 21. Let's get our sales people to take the test – they can think like the customer!
- 22. We don’t need usability research, we already have a UAT scheduled.
- 23. How about a Focus Group?
- 24. Is this a worst practice? NEW RESEARCH UNDERW AY
- 27. Part 3: The Devil Made me do it! (Where does this stuff come from?)
- 28. Time
- 30. Overconfidence
- 31. END