The Inmates are Running the Asylum
It is argued that the business executives who make the decisions to develop their products are not the ones in control of the technology used to create them. Talented people continuously design bad software-based products, we need technology to work the way average people think. Somewhere out there is a happy medium that makes these types of products both user and bottom-line friendly.
You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.
~The Inmates are Running the Asylum
Architects and Engineers
Why Metrics?
Primary goals of most commerce driven web sites:
1- High Traffic Loads (Product Exposure) - Products introduced virtually and sold via brick and mortar
2- Sales from High Traffic Loads -
Metrics are very very important for website success- Metrics can be viewed using analytics software such as google.com/analytics (Free
- Who comes to our site
- How long do they visit
- What pages are hit the most
- At what point do they leave the site
- What software are they using
- What is their internet connection
Architecture is based on a specific audience, your customer
Interaction Designs are created based on user behaviors and needs this includes,
The Task Analysis of users
The Interactions necassary to complete the tasks of the site
Poorly designed products are the way they are because more effort is placed on engineering the thing that actually designing it.
(Book Reference,- Dont Make me Think ) Is your site a billboard, cause your users are browsing at 80 MPH.
Your site might work, but your engineers are the only ones that can navigate it well enough to use it.
Engineering is based on making a site function.
Here is a good design contrast site
http://www.noideasbutinthings.com
here are some bad examples of poor interaction design
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/10-worst-web-pages-featured-on-web-pages-that-suck-in-2006.html
here are some good examples
http://www.cssremix.com/
