Interesting usability research
Bryan Eisenberg pointed out some research on his blog yesterday that I found interesting. It’s a quick survey designed around usability issues with your results then compared to the 20 thousand plus other survey attendees. There were only two items where I hadn’t gone with the majority, but those two were surprising and it just goes to show that no matter how good at this stuff you think you are, you are probably wrong! It’s why this kind of research is so interesting.
Don’t think you chose the wrong one just because you didn’t vote with the majority. I was going to say something in my post but decided to hold off hoping someone like you
would come to this conclusion as well. Let me guess, one of them was the navigation the roll over versus the two rows? Don’t forget there is always survey bias. Ask yourself who is most likely to have taken this research. Is it designers and technical folk or people like you and me.