[WSG] Talking about odd user behaviour (was Re: PopUp windows)
Hi folks, Someone wrote: One of my favourite stats is that 30% of browser activity involves using the Back button .Proceedings of the Third International World Wide Web Conference, Darmstadt, Germany (1995). To which someone else replied: and the web, users and people have changed a lot since 1995, I would say so much so that that stat would know be unreliable... I did usability testing with 10 users of a medium-sized library website 18 months ago. Every single person, withOUT exception, failed to use either the breadcrumb navigation, or the left sidebar navigation. Each time they wanted to return 'home' or to somewhere they'd been before, they simply hit 'back, back, back' until they got there. If they needed to go somewhere new to complete or begin a new task, they still didn't use the side nav, they backed up to the 'home' page to start from there. I wondered if they did it because they thought that each new task should begin on the 'home' page, but every one I asked (about half of them) said 'no', they always used a browser like that (note that they didn't say they used my site like that, they used the browser like that). I was astounded. lib. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] Talking about odd user behaviour (was Re: PopUp windows)
btw one of those persons was me :) I wrote what I did mainly becauseback in 1995 or whenever the study took place, I wasnt (and im sure others hear) was not surfing the Internet or even regularly using a computer (I did not even own one). back then it was fairly new and with not many 'experts'. However now most people (they even teach old people at homes to use net) know how to navigate using the back button. However the study you did suprised me and thanks for letting us know of that [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/03/2007 7:34:22 am Hi folks, Someone wrote: One of my favourite stats is that 30% of browser activity involves using the Back button .Proceedings of the Third International World Wide Web Conference, Darmstadt, Germany (1995). To which someone else replied: and the web, users and people have changed a lot since 1995, I would say so much so that that stat would know be unreliable... I did usability testing with 10 users of a medium-sized library website 18 months ago. Every single person, withOUT exception, failed to use either the breadcrumb navigation, or the left sidebar navigation. Each time they wanted to return 'home' or to somewhere they'd been before, they simply hit 'back, back, back' until they got there. If they needed to go somewhere new to complete or begin a new task, they still didn't use the side nav, they backed up to the 'home' page to start from there. I wondered if they did it because they thought that each new task should begin on the 'home' page, but every one I asked (about half of them) said 'no', they always used a browser like that (note that they didn't say they used my site like that, they used the browser like that). I was astounded. lib. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ** The above message has been scanned and meets the Insurance Commission of Western Australia's Email security requirements for inbound transmission. ** The above message has been scanned and meets the Insurance Commission of Western Australia's Email security policy requirements for outbound transmission. This email (facsimile) and any attachments may be confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email (facsimile) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email (facsimile) in error please contact the Insurance Commission. Web: www.icwa.wa.gov.au Phone: +61 08 9264 * *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Talking about odd user behaviour (was Re: PopUp windows)
It sounds ridiculous! And I do it!! haha, I can't believe I do that, reading this information made me understand. I don't know why, it's obviusly not necessary, and of course I try not to do it in gmail, but I like to have the back list almost empty. If I'm using google search, and send many queries, I almost always go back to clean them. And I know how to use computers...! I recently changed to Mac, and maybe not having the list of sites in Safari as in Firefox may change this unexplaiable custom. This is not a reason to keep the back functionality, just a weird, web developer case. Regards; Eugenio. On 3/8/07, libwebdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Someone wrote: One of my favourite stats is that 30% of browser activity involves using the Back button .Proceedings of the Third International World Wide Web Conference, Darmstadt, Germany (1995). To which someone else replied: and the web, users and people have changed a lot since 1995, I would say so much so that that stat would know be unreliable... I did usability testing with 10 users of a medium-sized library website 18 months ago. Every single person, withOUT exception, failed to use either the breadcrumb navigation, or the left sidebar navigation. Each time they wanted to return 'home' or to somewhere they'd been before, they simply hit 'back, back, back' until they got there. If they needed to go somewhere new to complete or begin a new task, they still didn't use the side nav, they backed up to the 'home' page to start from there. I wondered if they did it because they thought that each new task should begin on the 'home' page, but every one I asked (about half of them) said 'no', they always used a browser like that (note that they didn't say they used my site like that, they used the browser like that). I was astounded. lib. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
