Sunday, November 1, 2009

Web Design - The User Experience - Part 1

Emphasis on user rather than experience. A number of years back, one of the clients of the company I worked for hired a consultant. He had two recommendations. One is that we add more orange. The other was that we try to get away from your usual website navigation and give the user what he liked to call an experience. To him, this meant "something exciting and new, not something you see at every site". To me - and I like to think most other website users - this meant "a website that frustrates me so much I will never return to it."

We added more orange.