Timothy Keirnan interviews Gerry McGovern at User Interface 12 on November 5th, 2007, immediately after Gerry's all-day seminar called How To Design A Task-Based Information Architecture: Essential Tips For Creating Customer-Centric Websites.Points discussed include:* "Words drive behavior." Getting the right words is crucial to developing good Web content.* Task-centric is customer-centric. Correct wording is essential to being customer-centric.* The opposite of customer-centric is organization-centric. Organization-centric websites are not very helpful to customers.* People often come to the Web to learn or to do something. So, design for impatience. Are your customers able to quickly and simply complete their tasks?* Advertising often treats customers like Pavlov's dogs. Many Web users see through manipulative ads and instead want useful knowledge that conveys something authentic about the good or service they're after. Most ads are not perceived as authentically representing a good or service.NOTE: When Tim says "marketing" in this interview, he should have said "advertising". It was a terrific but long day :-)You can find Gerry's website atwww.gerrymcgovern.comGerry's most recent book is Killer Web Content atwww.gerrymcgovern.com/killer-web-content.htmSpecial thanks to User Interface Engineering (www.uie.com) for making this episode possible by sponsoring Design Critique at UI12.

[ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:29:00 GMT ]

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