The Dark Side of Graphic Design: a Source of Disturbance

Misused, Graphic Design of a site can destroy the good sides previously seen worse user experience:

* Deterioration of ease of use: Most Internet users access Internet via modem, and it will be so for another four years (40 to 60% of Internet users still use a telephone link to access the Net in 2004, according to several institutes forecast). Using too badly compressed image slows the loading of pages and led to increasing dropout rates pages being loaded. Customers are impatient and tend to be more and more sites too long to load some are condemned marginal unless their content is exclusive and essential (which is rare …).

Does this mean that in a few years, we can “to release and illuminated all the web pages into works of art, when the network capacity will make these issues secondary weight images? Unfortunately for aesthetes, it is not. The graphical overload leads other disturbances:

* Disruption by fatigue: the choice of colors too vivid contrasts too brutal (green characters on a red background) or too soft (brown clear characters on white background “broken”), or too many animations on pages will cause rapid eye of the Internet, which will not be encouraged and deepen its site navigation. Moreover, too many rich color eventually counter reading pages.
* The excessive proliferation of signs ( “visual noise”): Too many images, especially too many movies, not directly related to content, reduce the ability to collect information. Studies in which cameras follow the eye movement of the Internet have shown that searches the text primarily of interest when he arrived on a page. So if these are textual information embedded in the middle of other visual signals, the user could he not see the effect of saturation.

However, it should be noted that the Internet is developing fast enough reflexes to defend against these visual disturbances: the same study showed that it ignores everything that spontaneously akin to a banner advertising (even if it does is not …) in the pages visited. Nevertheless, the presence of moving images too closely intertwined in the content is a real barrier to the visibility of information.

The images outside content should be minimized: the identification, look professional pages and understanding between the areas described above should take place with minimal use of graphics. The simplicity is often a factor in determining the usability of a site, and therefore the quality of the experience of the user.

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