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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."

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  1. Trupe! by VC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I could tell in less than 50 milliseconds as well....

    1. Re:Trupe! by falzer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Those who forget Slashdot posts are doomed to repeat them.

    2. Re:Trupe! by SolitaryMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Those who forget Slashdot posts are doomed to repeat them.

      Those who remember are doomed to watch them repeating.

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  2. my first impressions tell me by Saven+Marek · · Score: 5, Funny

    my first impressions tell me this is not just a DUPE but a TRIPE!

  3. First Impressions Count... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... But on slashdot you get to have a second and even a third chance to get it right!

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  4. stop by Romancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Stop it.

    bad repeat, bad!

    look at what you've done, now go outside. Get.

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  5. But if they don't have broadband... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...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.

  6. dear god, make it stop by Hellad · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  7. CmdrTaco by m00nun1t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm expecting CmdrTaco to post a dupe of one of his "letters to slashdot" soon.

    1. Re:CmdrTaco by iworm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't you mean his "Letter's too Slishdot"?

    2. Re:CmdrTaco by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 4, Funny

      If it's a dupe, it would be "Letters Two Slashdot"

  8. Can't tell. by mondoterrifico · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man i've been reading Slashdot for 4 years now, and I still can't tell its shit.
    :)

  9. The solution by mwvdlee · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  10. Are we the victims of some kind of joke? by loic_2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  11. Ok guys by tannhaus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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

  12. Re:Ah my god by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hah. Do what I do, resubmit every dupe you see. Eventually I'll get an article posted that way...

  13. Thought this was a joke, till I realised... by john-da-luthrun · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it only takes Slashdot editors 50 milliseconds to forget each story they post.

  14. Re:Breaking the cipher, replying on-topic! by mysticgoat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "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:

    1. What are these processes that filter all this data before we actually experience "reality"?
    2. To what extent do these very fast working processes control what we think we are seeing?

    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!

  15. Yes, it is a duplicate comment too by jschottm · · Score: 4, Informative

    For all we know, this "on-topic" comment is a dupe, too.

    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=174167 &cid=14489311

    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.

  16. What to do. by ceeam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if we all submit this link as a story (several times each?), will /. editors finally get a point?

  17. Re:Triple? by ericdano · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And people pay for subscriptions to these triple postings........very very sad.

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  18. Ric Romero Says: by Potor · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you make a webpage, remember that people will judge them quickly.

  19. Overheard in Slashdot editors' office by VampireByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    CowboyNeal: Hey, so it's really cold out there today, huh?

    CmdrTaco: So how much do we owe you for the pizza?

    Pizza Delivery Guy: FOR THE THIRD TIME, YES IT'S COLD OUT THERE, AND YOU OWE ME $15.95!!!

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  20. Re:Cheap attempt to get a link from /. by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Funny
    Appears that the submitter is simply trying to boost his own website up.

    You think "websiteoptimization.com" might be a commercial site?

  21. This is NOT a Trupe! RTFA - Original Research by Crisses · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  22. Can Anyone Help Me? by Hosiah · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Can Anyone Help Me? by Gleng · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had a quick search and found a few articles you may be interested in:

      First Impressions Count in Website Design
      Web Users Judge Sites in the Blink of an Eye
      Web Users Judge Sites Instantly

      Hope that helps.

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  23. Re:This is NOT a Trupe! RTFA - Original Research by proggoddess · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wouldn't the original article link normally be posted in a Slashback?

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