Thursday 9 August 2012

Designing a Website to its Potential

A web designer must verify whether the site designed by him or her is usable or not. This can be measured by usability tests.  These kind of tests can be applied to any kind of website- be it a simple informative one or an e-commerce website.

Market research data is of vital importance to website design Sydney companies. The data is used to understand users’ needs. A lot of market research data is available on the subjects of web user demographics, habits and preferences. A web designer should use this information to design a website. 

Opinion polls are also an important source of data when it comes to find the usability of a website. The activity can be conducted via phone, mail or website. Personal interaction is also a popular method of conducting opinion polls. The advantage of such polls is that they are very economical to conduct and can also collate opinions from a large cluster of individuals in a very short time period.

The method of performance measurement is also used as a usability test by a professional web designer to determine quantitative data. Examples of this kind of usability test include facets of web design like selecting the position of the “Buy” button so that the potential customer will be influenced the most. Another pertinent example is the time taken by a new user to sign up for a service. As a website owner, you can set up performance goals like user sign up within a certain time range. Potential customers can be enticed to purchase by giving a performance commitment. This can be elaborated by an example where a financial site promises to waive off transaction fees if the buying or selling process is not over within ten minutes. This kind of Unique Selling Proposition or USP is very useful in concertizing monetary transactions.

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