Thursday, October 24, 2013

Low Traffic? You Can Still Increase Your Conversion Rate


by Theresa Baiocco, Conversion Max at UserTesting.com
Make sure people see what you want them to see
 If you have an ecommerce site, you want your product images and “Add to Cart” buttons to stand out. If you do lead gen, you want people to notice your form, phone number, or chat icons. Use an eye tracking tool like Attention Wizard or Feng-GUI, which predicts which elements on your page get the most visual attention. For example, the button on the UserTesting.com homepage gets the most attention, followed by the headline, video, and logo. Exactly what they were aiming for, I’m sure!
read the article at http://www.usertesting.com/blog/2013/10/17/low-traffic-you-can-still-increase-your-conversion-rate/ 

Friday, October 18, 2013

Designing for Culturally Diverse Audiences

 
Designing for Culturally Diverse Audiences: Can Automated Attention Analysis Substitute the Eye-Tracking in Website Development?
By Tomáš Kincl, Ph.D. Dept. of Exact Methods Faculty of Management
University of Economics, Prague

Developers use a variety of methods to evaluate user’s reactions to the website. Research in neuroscience and natural vision processing resulted in the development of automated methods which simulate human attention and are able to provide similar results to eye-tracking. However robust evidence is still missing.

Our aim was to determine whether cultural differences between websites can be deduced not only through demanding user testing (eye-tracing), but could be also diagnosed via automated attention analysis. 

We utilized Feng-GUI to distinguish between six groups (each from different culture) of largest local and international beer companies. The websites were analyzed in terms of number of focal points and
their size.
Feng-GUI was able to provide similar results as eye-tracking and thus may significantly reduce website development cost and contribute to more efficient marketing communications.
The analysis confirmed that Feng-GUI can digest management relevant outcomes for marketing managers and web designers who oversee and take decisions about the international portfolio of brand websites.