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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."
I could tell in less than 50 milliseconds as well....
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my first impressions tell me this is not just a DUPE but a TRIPE!
In other news, Slashdot readers needed 50 miliseconds to realize that this is the third time this very same history is posted.
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...you have a whole 50 seconds for them to take the page in as it loads.
This article has been around so many times I have now thought of something to post against it.
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I don't complain about dupes, but this is ridiculous. I have to wonder if this is a sick joke. A third time? I don't even pay and I feel like demanding my money back...
I'm expecting CmdrTaco to post a dupe of one of his "letters to slashdot" soon.
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Man i've been reading Slashdot for 4 years now, and I still can't tell its shit.
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Just 50ms to make an impression is very short, so Slashdot just does the logical thing; they're giving it 150ms!
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Seriously, do you think this is some Andy Kaufman prank where many members of the public are the victim and the only people who find the joke funny are the moderators? It's just getting silly now.
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This had to be on purpose. They're taking the piss with us. No one is that incompetent. They're having a joke at our expense, so just let it ride
Hah. Do what I do, resubmit every dupe you see. Eventually I'll get an article posted that way...
...it only takes Slashdot editors 50 milliseconds to forget each story they post.
"Nothing to see here..."
One of the interesting points made in What the bleep do we know is that human retinas are bombarded with millions of data bits each millisecond, and somehow the brain reduces this to a few tens of thousands of bits in the process of forming a conscious image, which happens pretty quickly. So these questions arise:
So in terms of web sites, it seems that even though I might not know how to define it, I can recognize quality before I see it. Yeah, that fits my experience: I'll google for something, open up a dozen of the most promising links in new tabs, then run through most of them at full click speed because I can instantly tell that they aren't the ones I'm looking for.
Viva tabbed browsing!
Hah. Do what I do, resubmit every dupe you see. Eventually I'll get an article posted that way...
Now that does not seem that effective because this is only the 3rd or 4th trupe that I have seen here on slashdot, and I'm more than a regular, closer to obsessive-compulsive.
Everytime it happens, I post a link like this where I can find the other articles in less than 10 seconds, and I don't even work as an "editor" for slashdot.
My conclusions have been 1) they do not care 2) they like the negative attention 3) they have not read my posts, nor have they learned how to write a working search engine or use a working one called Google.
I mean, the attached search is a cut and paste of the headline "First Impressions Count in Website Design" preppended with site:slashdot.org to it, then hit return.
So, which is it guys?
Oh, I realized. The 10 seconds is 200x greater than 50ms. That is probably the reason I forgot, the editors have a low attention span like the 3 articles say.
For all we know, this "on-topic" comment is a dupe, too.
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tehanu said:
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge (slashdot had it as a story a short while ago) in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
willeh "said":
You know this idea that people make judgements in the first 50ms before you can really gain a conscious impression of it (though probably something flashes in your subconcious) remind me of one of the entries in the "Dangerous Ideas" article in Edge Magazine in which Nobel Prize winning biochemist Eric R. Kandel argues that much of what we call "free will" is processed unconsciously without awareness:
To be fair, he/she added, "Interesting read for sure." Insert usual karma whore comments, etc. here.
I wonder if we all submit this link as a story (several times each?), will /. editors finally get a point?
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You think "websiteoptimization.com" might be a commercial site?
This isn't a dupe/trupe. The former article was a synopsis. This one actually gives the real research. I was looking for the original research on the earlier article but I didn't want to pay the publishers for it. This article gives the methods, the pages viewed, the results. That's far better than the first two /. postings!
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Can anyone tell me how long my web page has to capture the interest of a visitor? I've been searching everywhere for this data but cannot seem to track it down.
I don't get how this could happen a third time. Let's hope that this is a joke. Otherwise, it really would make a good topic for the next About Slashdot article. Wow. I've been reading for a long time and haven't seen this happen before. Weird. I think that this is some of the reason why editors and CmdrTaco get so much crap hurled at them. If you give people the ammunition, they're likely to fire it on you sooner or later.
All that said, it's not the end of the world. It just makes the site look sloppy and haphazard rather than polished. In many ways, it's kind of the stigma that Linux has faced when compared to Windows. Oh well.
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Wouldn't the original article link normally be posted in a Slashback?
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We all know the story is a dupe... what's funny is the fact that the story was only up three times, the number of duplicate comments telling everyone that the story is a dupe has to be over 50+ by now.
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