Comments on: Judging a Website http://blog.centresource.com/2006/01/17/judging-a-website/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judging-a-website the thoughts and ramblings of centresource Thu, 06 Jun 2013 10:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chris http://blog.centresource.com/2006/01/17/judging-a-website/#comment-344 Chris Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:44:40 +0000 http://blog.centresource.com/2006/01/17/judging-a-website/#comment-344 I definitely agree with this — attractiveness and usability are not the same thing, and too often one is sacrificed for the sake of the other.

We’ve run across many applications that look quite nice but are a nightmare from a usability perspective (Egroupware and SugarCRM both come to mind, though the former has improved).

]]> By: Phil Wilson http://blog.centresource.com/2006/01/17/judging-a-website/#comment-343 Phil Wilson Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:12:03 +0000 http://blog.centresource.com/2006/01/17/judging-a-website/#comment-343 From the User Interface perspective, I’ve got to come across as the contrarian to this. I agree that users will make a snap decision about a site, but only showing it to them for 50 milliseconds and then asking for a reactions? That strikes me as patently unfair.

It’s interesting that the follow-up questions about it indicated that the same websites were found favorable (different that “usable”, btw). I would be interested if the same test subjects saw the 50 millisecond image were shown the same website later to make the favorable/unfavorable determination.

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