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Designing To Make Users Feel Safer

Users are usually worry about the payment information they send through the internet. They fear fraud and they want their personal information to be safe.

"an essential usability task is to make users feel safe…"

Probably you are already implementing ways of safely transfer user information to your website, like Secure Socket Layer (SSL). But an essential usability task is to make users feel safe when sending critical data.

Place a lock icon close to critical forms, big or small but in highly visible location. Another way of encouraging people to give you that valuable information is to place a link to your privacy policy.


PayPal wants to transmit a feeling of safety to its users through a smart design.

PayPal Secure Connection

 
Amazon also tries to give a feeling of security from the beginning. 

Amazon Secure Connection

 

Popularity: 15% [?]

Designing a Product Description Page For Your Customers

Each part of a website should be designed to target the biggest group of users. Of course, this includes the product description page, the page that actually shows the product.


"Think what’s important for your users and design for their needs…"

Are your customers interested in details? design? colors available, or price? Think what’s important for your users and design for their needs.

I have two clear examples. The first one, Dell’s product description page is perfectly designed for their target customers. They emphasized on technical features and price. The user experience of buying a Dell laptop is the same as the one of buying a screwdriver.

Dell Laptops Product Page

 

On the other side, Apple’s product description page was designed thinking on what is possible to do with the computer and design, not giving too many technical details (although they are also available). Apple, like Dell, designed for their customers’ interests. Read here other Design vs Art articles about Online Shopping.

 

Apple iMac Product Detail

 

Popularity: 11% [?]

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