Web Site Psychology
Track: Fundamentals
Tags Intermediate, Fundamentals
Presented by Gavin Bell (Nature). Creating web sites is a process of understanding people. Site owners have something to offer and they want to help people to use the site to help themselves. Cognitive psychology has a lot to say about how we should be approaching web development from pace of change to exploration and interaction.
Comments
Lots of definition of terms but not enough recommendations about how to make best use of them in design.
The top and content is highly relevant to what we build. I'd like to learn more about how to use our understanding of human nature to build better, more engaging applications.
Fascinating topic and the speaker clearly had huge knowledge and an engaging manner, but more examples of practical applicaton and more visual slides would really have helped.
thanks for the comments, the link is subtle, traditionally we think in terms of goals and tasks, I was encouraging thinking about the broader context of how people engage with your area. Hence the examination of experience arcs etc. I'll agree that further visuals would have helped, but I was wary of having too much material
I'll post the slides with my notes on slideshare.net/gavin in the next day or so.
thanks
Gavin
Good introduction to the topic; I'd like to learn more. It might have been more useful if it were more focused on sub-topics. Speaker seemed overly fond of name-dropping (sites/services as well as people.) Thanks for the exposure to this topic, though.
Good information, although I have to echo what the others said about needing visual aids and more practical application of the content. This felt a lot more like Psychology 101 then Web Psychology.
This felt more like Psych 101 rather than Web Psychology - I wasn't expecting to be run through a really basic vocabulary list and was hoping to get more solid discussion of user behavior tied to those concepts.
The presentation was one of a few at the session that addressed what social media was about vs. describing the tool and technologies. Understanding and answering the question of why do we socialize on the web is a keystone to delivering value to a social community be it product, health or political based.
Gavin delivered a thought provoking presentation and I highly recommend people continue to build upon his presentation.
Con: He was extremely thirsty during the presentation and paused to drink water several times. This caused him at times to loose his place for a few seconds. My recommendation to Gavin? Drink heavily before a presentation! ;)
Good content but would have liked to see the topics/examples more closely tied to real-world web examples to really bring it to life.
Gavin was clearly very knowledgeable, but seemed very uncomfortable up there!
I loved the topic and subject matter, but the presentation was really dry. Gavin was funny, but he needed to dumb it down a bit and get some more audience involvement.
I loved the topic and general content, but felt that the talk lacked visual aids and stronger context-specific examples.