UIE Virtual Seminar Presentation (one of our most popular topics updated for 2008!)
Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site
Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engineering
Length: 90 Minutes
Price: $
149.00 (includes handout)
We're pleased to bring back one of our most popular Virtual Seminars. Since Jared M. Spool first delivered this presentation on Gallery Pages back in 2006, User Interface Engineering researchers have discovered several new and provocative findings.
In this seminar, we take a detailed look at your site's most critical page: the gallery. Galleries are the most used navigational element on any web site and many sites have hundreds of them. And yet, they are often the most difficult pages to design well.
Acting as the crossroads for your users path to their desired content, a solid gallery page tells the user what they'll find and, just as importantly, tells them which paths will take them away from their goal. Ensuring these landmarks do their job is probably the hardest part of designing a successful website.
In this presentation, Jared will share some of UIE’s most important findings about gallery page design. You’ll learn:
- How to utilize the Scent of Information to ensure the user’s trigger words are present
- How galleries help users make confident choices
- The key elements that search result pages borrow from the average gallery (and what makes them different)
- Strategies for ordering links for easy findability. (Hint: Alphabetical order isn’t one of them!)
- When images help and when they get in the way
- How dynamic Ajax elements can help or hinder a user finding what to click on
- How to take advantage of when users are scanning and when they are reading
Instructor Biography
Jared M. Spool founded User Interface Engineering in 1988, and has built the company into a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in usability and experience design. He has been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.
Jared spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He is also the conference chair and keynote speaker at the annual User Interface Conference, is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute, and manages to squeeze in a fair amount of writing time.
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