We just came across this amusing, but somewhat cheeky article from Software is Too Expensive to Build Cheaply entitled If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers…. Some of the analogies are actually pretty close. One of the more amusing ones:
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know what the order or things is that people look at on your web site. Here is an interesting web usability study noting what people actually look at first, how they read the web site, and the behaviors they have depending on age, type of web site, and other variables. While they say you shouldn’t take the results too seriously, it still makes a very interesting read.
We at Intuitive Designs are constantly learning and growing every day. One of the things we do towards this goal and study web standards and make each new web site we do more standards compliant.
