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> I'm sure I'm sitting on the wrong side of countless user studies that say to the contrary This is completely off topic, but I was a UX study participant last
by bionoid 9y ago
> I'm sure I'm sitting on the wrong side of countless user studies that say to the contrary
This is completely off topic, but I was a UX study participant last year, it was an interesting experience. They told me to do as I usually do when surfing the web, and to verbalize my thought process.
I opened the website, and a huge nonmodal advertisement to win some $15 piece of garbage pops up. On pure instinct I click ctrl-w to close the tab, and state "what an obnoxious advertisement, I am boycotting this site".
It went downhill from there.
- seer 9y agoThe sad thing is that if you were the sort of person that would click on that ad - you’d probably be gullible enough to pay for whats sitting on the end of that link. So making it obnoxious is actually giving the advertisers a useful filter. And since the gullible types are where they get their money from they optimise for that. Tech folk are just unwanted noise in their statistics.
- iamphilrae 9y agoYou’re still providing excellent usability test data. You’ve proved that their client’s blatant user-unfriendliness advertising strategy doesn’t work on you. Unfortunately 90% of their other test subjects probably clicked the advert so they went with it anyway.