While yet another 50+ age group, who invented the Internet and the World Wide Web, continue to set the standards which stop it descending into chaos.
On Mon, March 31, 2008 3:39 pm, Michael Horowitz wrote: > I find most do. I think there is a wide disparity depending on who you > work with. Over time we are going to move to a much more educated group > of users. Students coming out of college now are highly computer > literate and web savvy. The next generation of users growing up using > myspace and linked in are not going to have problems using the back > button. And they will be used to seeing various different types of > links actually used rather than what we say they "should" be. On the > other and the current older generation which makes up a lot of senior > managements 50+ age group may be the group you are discussing. One > group has never known a world without the web and sees it an an integral > part of their generations social identity while the other group first > started to use it as needed for business. > > Michael Horowitz > Your Computer Consultant > http://yourcomputerconsultant.com > 561-394-9079 > > > > Designer wrote: >> Keryx Web wrote: >> >>> >>> Underlines on paper have no usability impact, since you cant click on >>> it! Underlines on web pages have a usability impact, since people >>> think they are clickable links. >> >> Just out of interest, I did a site map recently and all the links were >> red and underlined, at least on hover. The client moaned and didn't >> like the red or the underline. I explained that it was 'standard >> convention for links'. The response was "oh, I didn't realise that!". >> Thing is, this person and her current staff of three have been using a >> PC since 1998. No one else knew either. So I did a simple test on all >> of them. NO-one (that's big fat zero) knew what the 'back-button' was >> . . . >> >> This is what I find time and time again. Contrary to some of the >> comments l hear on this list, my experience is such that most computer >> users haven't got the first clue about how to use their machines, even >> after ten years . . . >> >> I wish we had real information on this, because it has a direct >> bearing on whether we should be holding users hands whilst designing a >> site, or assuming (wrongly) that users have 'choices'. (open in a new >> tab? you must be joking!!) >> >> Bob >> www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
