Online experiences can be fast, efficient, easy, orderly—and sometimes, that’s a recipe for disaster. We click confirm too soon, confuse important details, or miss a key feature in a product description. Efficient isn’t always effective. Not all experiences need to be fast to be functional. In fact, some of the most memorable and profitable engagements are slow and messy—and that’s just right.
Content strategy can identify and support opportunities to control the pace of user experience, but there’s a lot to keep in mind:
Learn how to identify experiences in which efficiency and speed would hinder the user’s interaction, satisfaction, and retention.
Understand how to introduce “speed bumps” in copy, content types, interaction design, and visual design that help users without annoying them.
Discover new tactics for sentence structure, diction, imagery positioning, and form design that all help slow down interaction and improve experiences
Presented at Confab 2013, June 5, 2013, #confabmn, in Minneapolis.
9. These people are delighting
in a line:
they’re engaged,
anticipating,
discovering,
creating memories.
They’re in the moment.
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10. These people are delighting
in a line:
they’re engaged,
anticipating,
discovering,
creating memories
thanks to content.
@mbloomstein | #ConfabMN
11. Content will change an experience
and a user’s perception of it.
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28. “Choosing a lens can be a daunting task
for all of the reasons mentioned above,
so I pulled together some info from my
own experiences, as well as those of
other Crutchfield shutterbugs.”
49. The right content
slows down users,
focuses their attention, and
helps them act deliberately.
It respects them and
the topic equally.
@mbloomstein | #ConfabMN