Archive for January, 2008

About Us Pages Designs To Target Customers

The About Us page is used to orientate users and to provide a feeling of trust. Specially if your website is new you should have a well done About Us page. For new companies, it should have a brief description of the services and information about how to contact, including real addresses. If you are selling something online, that will give users trust.

"make it look organized and simple…"

For well established companies an About Us page should have links to the job offers, to the press releases and to the history of the company. That’s where more people are going to look for that information.

It’s important not to place long texts on the main About Us page, make it look organized and simple and place direct links to the interesting sections. Think in the information your users would look for in your About Us page.

Macy’s has a very well design About Us page:

Macy's About Us

 

On the other side, YouTube has a not so good approach. The About Us page is called "About YouTube" and the link to that page is called "Company Info", in usability terms that escapes from the standard. They also include some company history on the main About Us page, giving less importance to other topics.

 

YouTube About Us

 

Popularity: 11% [?]

Designing Product Description Pages That Sell

Product recommendation is one of the ways of showing how usability practices can increase online sales. Making your users’ life easier will improve the whole shopping experience and will make buying fun!

"Design your product description page including related products…"

Make shopping easy and people will buy more. Design your product description page including related products that customers might like to buy.

Abercrombie & Fitch Product Description Page

 

A good design example is the Abercrombie & Fitch website, is you are looking for shorts it will show you a shirt and shoes to combine them with on the "Complete The Look" section.

Making this kind of integration takes time as it requires to internally link products, but all this effort could be extremely rewarding. Read other Design vs Art articles about Compulsive Shopping and Product Recommendations.

Popularity: 18% [?]

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