if by design » User experience http://blog.ifbydesign.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:51:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 en Web credibility (part 2) - Communcation http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/15/web-credibility-part-2/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/15/web-credibility-part-2/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:00:00 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/15/web-credibility-part-2/ The first article was written from the point of view of the user assessing the credibility of a website and drew parallels with going on a blind date. This article is written from the point of view of the website owner trying to encourage the user to interact with their site by creating and maintaining credibility.

In dating terms, this article is about how to impress your new friend and turn the friendship into a long term relationship.

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]]> http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/15/web-credibility-part-2/feed/ Web credibility and the principles of dating (Part 1) http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/web-credibility-part-1/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/web-credibility-part-1/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:00:00 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/web-credibility-part-1/ &Web credibility is a lot like dating. I think the principles are roughly the same. This article, part one in a series, looks at how web credibility and blind dates are one and the same.

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]]> http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/web-credibility-part-1/feed/ The web’s credibility problem http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/the-webs-credibility-problem/ http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/the-webs-credibility-problem/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:16:00 +0000 Stuart Johnston http://blog.ifbydesign.com/2006/02/07/the-webs-credibility-problem/ I stumbled across Stanford’s Web Credibility Guidelines and it really stuck a cord with me both as a web user and a developer. I decided to look into it further at where the problem was coming from and if it was actually important.

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