Comments for Thinking Out Loud... http://simon.harper.name Web Ergonomics: Accessibility, Usability, and Human Behaviour on the Web Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Personality Principle [#ux] by Simon Harper http://simon.harper.name/2012/01/24/the-personality-principle-ux/#comment-458 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:35:41 +0000 http://simon.harper.name/?p=1332#comment-458 Another good point Vasile, this may well be the case; money and price trump everything – but if that was the case why wouldn’t a simple price list do? Instead, there is a riot of colour and even a video price list http://www.lingscars.com/price_list.php?pcp=1 / I think there is more at work here than price or value…

]]> Comment on The Personality Principle [#ux] by Simon Harper http://simon.harper.name/2012/01/24/the-personality-principle-ux/#comment-457 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:30:38 +0000 http://simon.harper.name/?p=1332#comment-457 Hi James, I agree with you on that one. Indeed, it seems to me that it may not even have to be Ling who does the development (in fact I’m sure it isn’t) but as long as the perception is that it is ‘home made’, the principle still stands.

]]> Comment on The Personality Principle [#ux] by Simon Harper http://simon.harper.name/2012/01/24/the-personality-principle-ux/#comment-456 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:28:16 +0000 http://simon.harper.name/?p=1332#comment-456 To be honest James, I’m just not sure. The more I see, the more I think that her personality and presence make the difference – but hey, I’ve got little empirical evidence for this. Whatever the cause, empirically, the principles so often trotted out are not supported, and so there MUST be other factors at work, which could be used in other developments – I still think this is personality.

]]> Comment on The Personality Principle [#ux] by Vasile T. http://simon.harper.name/2012/01/24/the-personality-principle-ux/#comment-455 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:20:47 +0000 http://simon.harper.name/?p=1332#comment-455 Very nice & interesting article!
I was wondering whether the value itselfe offered by the web site, going beyond the interaction layer or presonality, might also atract users. Probably good deals can overcome bad user experience.
I remember few years ago, when I first booked a flight on Ryanair site, I really disliked their website. However, the good prices they offered made me return to that site very often…

]]> Comment on The Personality Principle [#ux] by James http://simon.harper.name/2012/01/24/the-personality-principle-ux/#comment-454 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:40:16 +0000 http://simon.harper.name/?p=1332#comment-454 I think you’ve made some really good points with this — definitely with the personality aspects.

I wonder if there’s also a sense of extra value for the user because it’s obvious that the site has been ‘home made’. So instead of pumping £££ into a slick design, Ling has done it herself and is therefore saving the consumer money?

]]> Comment on The Personality Principle [#ux] by James Christie http://simon.harper.name/2012/01/24/the-personality-principle-ux/#comment-453 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:34:49 +0000 http://simon.harper.name/?p=1332#comment-453 Personality might be important, but I wonder if the real reason lies in your comment about the site being an outlier. Does Ling get away with it because the novelty make the site audacious, distinctive and exciting? If other people tried the same trick and it became a more familiar style would this just seem like a rubbish website, regardless of personality?

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