Websites are 3 Dimensional
Depending on what people search for, they can land at the beginning, the end, or halfway through the buying journey. One of the dimensions is “Time” – where abouts they are in the journey towards a buying decision.
We shape the conversation by matching “The Search” with the right content and onward conversation, through Navigation.
- We have sidebar navigation that shows instantly what parent, child and sibling pages there are
- We have breadcrumbs to show where people are in our page hierarchy
I believe that visual communication conveys more information in a smaller space. It also captures the attention in a way that text doesn’t do.
From the visitor’s point of view, it is better when able to scan and skim the potential conversation without reading too hard. So when designing pages, we need to look at the sub-pages and decide how to promote them to the visitor.
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We take a little time to listen, and then show you how it all might work.
How to sell the click
Part of the job of the page then is to visually ‘sell the click’ to the pages underneath (or other related subjects).
The content in the parent page needs to make clear it is clickable and encourage the click with arrows or buttons. It might highlight what you will get if you click.
In order to ‘sell the click’ people want to have a sense of why they should! Lets try and tell them what they will get if they click through to the sub page.
(someone creative might have made the above more visual and clickable)So, instead of a paragraph of text, with a blue underlined link for a person’s profile, for example, we have a face (very compelling) with a title, and maybe an arrow, which helps people choose.
Even if people don’t click, they can browse very quickly and absorb all the information at a summary level without having to read lengthy paragraphs.
