User Experience Design: Misconceptions about whether to open a new browser

May not only many friends of the principles of the white Crow to understand, and many friends here still have a misunderstanding, try not to open a new window, friendly navigation open a new window, business needs when opening a new window

1. Links point to a file (usually non-HTML) that needs to be downloaded locally or printed. This includes PDFs, doc, MP3, documents that need to be printed, and so on.
2. When a page load can interrupt an ongoing process, or make it impossible to complete. For example, you need help in front and back; When filling out a form, users want to see the privacy policy and so on.

on the misunderstanding of whether to open the new browser

Whether it should be a new browser to open the link, is in the book club that day to discuss the point of more meaningful, White boss also gave a

1, try not to open a new window
2, friendly navigation open a new window
3. Open a new window when business needs

Perhaps not only many friends of the principles of the White crow do not understand, and many friends here there are misunderstandings.

Myth 1:More open a new page can increase the number of PV site, so in accordance with the third principle, PV number of sites need to be as much as possible to open a new window, and in fact, PV and whether the new open window does not have any relationship, the calculation of PV number is based on the number of requests to the server Opening a new page opens a new window and opens a page in the original window completely without distinction. (Usually the PV count is to see how many times a JS contained in a page is called to compute.) At the same time the use of back is not much, so whether the new page to the way the PV count does not affect.

Myth 2:After reading the contents of the browser, the user usually turns off the browser. If the original browser is used, the entire Web site will be closed. (When interacting with some friends, they think good web content can make up for the problem, which is true, but we're talking about the current issue, and it has nothing to do with anything else. From a certain point of view, the problem is there, and in fact the problem is not serious, first of all: The average person's memory fades for a certain time, many times, we found their own fan error, immediately after the original navigation to open this page, (originally in Google in the original page open, often such a problem, I can immediately use the original time to search again), Of course, this will increase the difficulty of interaction, and secondly, there is no new page open, most of the users have feelings, so many times, in the absence of new open also face the situation, the user is also know; Finally, in most cases, our website PV value is not high, so users are generally only a navigation process, so this process has gone , the natural site is to be closed, more than a few pages to increase the user's operating costs.

Myth 3:Users have a lot of needs, the users who look at the time information of the exam are often the users who need to see the test examples. So in the list of information, you should adopt a new way of opening the page so that you can see some examples of exams when you embrace the list page that you are looking at. First, there may be many users But there are not many users who expect this. Second, if the user read the exam Time Information page, if he thinks his browsing has ended, may be to close two pages at the same time, rather than the list of information to see the page again, so the adoption of a new page is not the user to solve the problem. (Here we have another extreme assumption that when the user opens a link, the 10 pages he needs are open to him, and I don't have to go on, and you know what happens next). In fact, the solution to this problem is not to open the new page, Instead, add the associated navigation or friendly navigation to the content page.

Myth 4:This is the technical staff, in the real work, there are many designers directly to the decision whether to open a new browser to the technical staff, indeed, any link, whether in a new window open, are implemented by technical personnel, the technical staff to ask this question, Many designers have directly given the standard of the consortium, according to the implementation of it! True, the rules are given in the standard of the consortium, but they are not practical, and some links are also opened in a new window. From another point of view, the technical staff is often very logical, but the analytical and the ability to judge relatively weak people, let them consider such a problem, They may care more about security than the user experience.

Myth 5:Because the PV value is not high, open 5-6 pages on the user does not have a relationship, in this effort to make design and technology to achieve high cost. Indeed, the average PV value of most Web sites (non-forums) is not high, most of the 3-5, but the site more value is for the loyal User Service, browsing the page more users, is often the value of the site more users. At the same time, even a few pages, the user's experience is very important. Maybe a page experience , you can decide whether users can like and come to our website again.

When it comes to design and implementation costs, it may be within the scope of a certain cooperative tacit understanding and rule that designers can simply mark out and explain the special place to the program's personnel, instead of giving all the connections a logo that is open with a new page.