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First Impressions Count in Website Design
Andy King writes "Web designers have as little as 50 milliseconds to capture the interest of potential customers, according a new report by researchers at Carleton University. Through the halo effect, first impressions can influence subsequent judgments of website credibility and buying decisions."
Yikes, is that a record? I knew it was a dupe within 50 milliseconds.
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The article was posted @8.08, parent comment @8.18 and noone made this joke before! How can it have been modded "redundant"?
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Prolly will be reading the same article next week. oh well...
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That's Crap (Score:5, Funny)
by Cobralisk (666114) on Monday January 16, @07:00AM (#14479755)
This article is obviously rubbish
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Re:That's Crap (Score:4, Funny)
by malsdavis (542216) * on Monday January 16, @08:13AM (#14480000)
Indeed, it reads just like all those "employers decide whether they will employ you in 50ms" studies.
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Re:That's Crap (Score:4, Interesting)
by Crayon Kid (700279) on Monday January 16, @03:33PM (#14481515)
Now let's talk about how we recognize ad banners in 50ms and shut them out of our vision.
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Duh (Score:5, Interesting)
by Lord_Dweomer (648696) on Monday January 16, @07:02AM (#14479762)
Well, let me be the first to say "Duh, of course we do."
Having all this information at our fingertips is awe-inspiring, yet completely useless if we can't sort through it properly. That's why companies like Google and datamining companies make so much money.
As society and people evolve to adapt to the new technology, we build our "defenses" against bad information. We have so much to go through that unless we are able to filter out bad information that quickly, we'll never get anywhere. Not to mention the fact that in this day and age of spyware/adware, plagiarism, virii and big brother everybody needs to lea