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Early Customer Feedback is Essential for Successful Web Design
- By Alan Smith
- Published 12/31/1969
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Alan Smith
Based in Los Angeles, Spinx provides professional website design and web development services to clients in the LA area, Orange County, and Bay area, as well as across the United States and around the world. We are a full service IT and web development firm offering a wide range of services to handle all your online needs.
View all articles by Alan SmithMany examples which are nominated for worst web design awards are not from the professional business world.
For
underperforming websites, right from the launch there are high
chances of increased cost for later changes and many differing
opinions from the stake holders simply leaves you to one option which
is to directly ask your users! And the best thing is the earlier you
do that in the interface design process, the more cost-effective you
can integrate the findings from user testing.
Now
understanding the process of how most websites are created, you can
see that there are many stake holders involved in this process and
they all want to add their opinion to the website. But there are
chances of too many cooks spoil the broth. Some websites must serve
several; sometimes even contradictory purposes, but the important
question is who decide how to balance this out. It is not necessary
that all well designed and pretty looking website perform well. It
may possible that what's good and crystal clear to the graphics
designer sometimes does not match at all with how real-time users are
going to use the website, when website is launched. It may happen
that users get confused by stylish looking new design ideas, cryptic
wording or just crammed windows and lots of attention grabbing stuff
on it.
You
should know that an underperforming website can jeopardizes your
overall website ROI, just caused by lower conversion rates. Therefore
you need to implement changes sooner or later. Here you will lose
because your website's ROI drops through lower conversion rates, this
can be counted as opportunity cost and the overall
Many studies and survey have shown that in early stage the user testing helps to find roughly 95% of the usability related issues in website or interface design. The good news for you is, you only need about 5 qualitative user tests for extraordinary result! It is strongly advisable that don't test with the colleague on the desk right next to you. Instead you should invite real users from your targeted user groups to catch open feedback from them or watch them browsing through your design concept. But you need to make sure that you need to deal with the psyche of your test users in the right way.
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