Week 3 Page #3: Interface Discussion
Interface Design Video and Discussion:
Click on the link below to watch this quick video discussion entitled: Bad User Interface Design is Death by a Thousand Cuts. (Note: there is a text version of his comments below the video too.) It discusses how poor interface can scare customers away. Have you ever had a frustrating experience with interface like this?
Interface Web Examples:
Now look at these two web sites with very different approaches to navigation and interface. Which one deters the user and why?
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http://www.quiet-time.com/
Links to an external site.
Is it immediately clear how to use the interface and navigation at this site? Once you have figured it out, do you understand what to do next? Are you intrigued enough to spend time figuring out how it works? What is this site for anyway?
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http://zendenwebdesign.com/
Links to an external site.
Compare you experience at the first site, to this one. How immediately understandable is this site's interface? Ask yourself what features of this site make it instantly easy to access. Can you tell immediately what the purpose of this site is?