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12 September 2013
Simplicity & Focus:Creating a Website that Offers Just Enough Choice
Webinar
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Agenda
• Why choose choice?• Science! Oh no.• Decisions in the wild• Decisions on the web• Why this matters
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CHOICEWHY CHOICE?
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Hot Topics!
• Responsive design• The Readable Web• Single Page Design• Personalization • Flat Design• Social Media • SEO• Choice?
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Choice: The foundation of the web
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We’ve come a long way.
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Why don’t you just tell me where you’d like to go?
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Let’s meet in the middle.
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The right options at the right time.
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Don’t we like options?
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SCIENCE
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The Paradox of Choice
• Choice is great… • Except when we have too many
options, then… • We stress• We get confused• We overthink• We’re never happy with our final
decision
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The Grocery StoreExperiment
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The Grocery Store Experiment
• Sample table at a grocery store offering exotic jams• Group A = 6 varieties• Group B = 24 varieties• More people were attracted to…• However…
Group B
3% of participants made a purchase in group B30% of participants made a purchase in group A
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More bad news for options.
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Hick’s Law
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Hick’s Law…Less sciencey
• The more options we have, the longer it takes to process all of the options
• On the web, this means we slow people down when we give them too many options
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In other words…decisions are hard…
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but we do need choice.
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Choice is Good for Many Reasons
• Without choice we feel trapped. Choice gives us a sense of freedom.
• Choice acts as signal.– Williams Sonoma - $279 Bread maker that wouldn’t sell… until
they released a $429 model
• Sometimes we just like options, but they have to presented properly.
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Decisions in the wild
DECISIONSIN THE WILD
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Strategies for Presenting Options
• We make 100s of decisions every day. • Many of us have decision fatigue.• Some smart companies have figured out ways to make
our decisions a little easier and they’ve done pretty well.• Let’s look at some strategies…
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Reduced Options
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It’s time for a new phone.
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Devices Running Android or iOS
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Satisfaction with Phone Purchase
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Everyone’s favorite decision... What’s for dinner?
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Raising Cane’s
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Maybe We Don’t Like Options?
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What if your business is built on options?
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Concealed Options
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Starbucks
• 87,000+ espresso drink combinations– ~30 menu options
• Fewer at the drive-through
• Sometimes you can assume your customers will know you offer something
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Progressive Decisions
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Chipotle
• 65,000+ combinations• Fewer small decisions• All options are presented,
but presented in small chunks
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Guidance
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IKEA: 1000s of Products, One Way Out
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Strategies for Making Decisions Easier
• Reduction. Doing a few things really well. • Concealment. Options available, but not all are
presented.• Progress. Breaking down decision into digestible pieces.• Guidance. Providing paths decision making.
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Decisions on the web
DECISIONS ON THE WEB
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Types of Decisions on the Web
• Which site should I visit? (Last webinar)• I’m here. Now where should I go?• How should I get there?• When I’m there, where should I focus?• When I’m done, where should I go next?
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Which Site Should I Visit?
• Before the site visit, a lot of decisions happens– Do I go with a firm I know, or search for someone new?– Do I search for the firm by name, lawyer name, something else?– Do I go directly to the site?– If I search, which result do I pick?
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53% of all clicks
15%
9%
6%
4%
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I’m Here. Now What?
• If your visitor lands on your homepage, or another landing page, they need to decide where to go.
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Streamlined options
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Personalized
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What aboutlegal?
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A really bad, made up example
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Caveats
• I am not a designer.• None of these examples are taken directly from real law
firms.• The solutions suggested work for my made up scenario,
but there’s no one size fits all solution. If there was, I wouldn’t have a job.
• Even if your site does all of the things in my bad example, we can still be friends.
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Navigation
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Making It Better
• Hick’s law. By providing too many options, the navigation slows the visitor down.
• Reduce / Focus. Fewer options will actually make it easier to find the right option and make the visitor more confident in their decision.
• Progressive decisions. Think like Chipotle. Combine navigation into a few smaller decisions – don’t list every possible combination.
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Services
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Making It Better
• Paradox of choice. Most firms list all services because they don’t want someone to think they can’t handle something. But this can actually lead to confusion about what you can actually do.
• Conceal. You don’t have to show everything at once, but show what you think might be important to me.
• Conceal. If I already know something about the firm, which most visitors will, I probably already know you have the capability and can find it through search.
• Progressive decisions. Think like Chipotle. Break this decision into smaller chunks.
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How Should I Get There?
• Sometimes having alternate navigation paths is okay, but sometimes this can feel like work for your visitors.
• Occasionally, sites offer a handful of options for reaching the same goal – or a single tool that offers many different options.
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Complex search forms
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Search first, filter later
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What aboutlegal?
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People Search
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Everyone’s Doing It
• The average AM Law 100 website has 9 ways to search for a person!
• Some of these tools include more than 200 options in a single drop-down (particularly schools)
• Some usability experts recommend not using a drop-down for lists that include any more than 15 options
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More Bad News
• We live in a multi-device world. Drop-down lists with large numbers of options are often difficult to use, and sometimes completely unusable, on mobile devices.
• Including unnecessary options is directly counter to the mobile experience we generally want – fast load times and easy interactions.
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Making It Better
• Option overload. Too many options to easily decide which option is the correct option.
• Hick’s law. Search feels clunky and unusable because it takes too long to use the filters.
• Filtering the unseen. All of the drop-downs are really filters. Showing them before there’s anything to filter means we are almost always showing options that are completely irrelevant.
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The Where to Look Decision
• Once you find some content, you are often presented with too many distractions. Focus your user on the content you want them to see. Everything else will distract from your goals.
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What aboutlegal?
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Publications
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Making It Better
• Conceal. In this scenario, visitors are distracted and often either ignore the content you want them to see, or completely skip over the related / ancillary content. – Conceal the related content until the main content has been
digested.
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Where Should I Go Next?
• After a visitor reaches the end of a story, bio or other page, they are often left to their own devices to determine where to go next.
• Some sites handle this better than others by providing clear guidance.
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Remember IKEA?
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What aboutlegal?
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Making It Better
• Guidance. This design has a number of things that I could do next, but no clear guidance as to which is the next most logical step. Think like Ikea and adopt an “Exit through the gift shop” mentality for all of your content.
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DOES IT MATTER?
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Business Decisions
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Business Decisions are Even Harder
• No one ever got fired for going to lunch at Raising Cane’s• The greater the impact of the decision, the greater the
need for research and evaluation• We pay more attention to the differences in details
amongst our options• These decisions are just hard.
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Where does your website fit into this?
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Make Your Website the Easiest Part
• One North’s 2012 General Counsel Survey reveals that many GCs review a firm’s website one or two times per month during the credentialing process (decision making)
• The most important features of a website for respondents of the survey were clear and usable navigation (34%) and relevant and valuable content (31%)
• Make your website the easiest part of the decision process
• Set the standard for ease of working with your firm
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Key Takeaways
• Too many options slow down the decision process, which on the web means your site feels difficult to use.
• To make your site feel faster and more user focused, provide the right options at the right time in the right place to the right person.
• Remember:– Reduction.– Concealment.– Progress.– Guidance.
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Where to Go Next
• Read the Paradox of Choice• Review your website looking for option overload• Watch our last webinar: Transparency in SEO• Read the One North blog
– Keeping Up with ‘The Times’ – Readability’s Future on the Web– Spring Cleaning: 6 Ways to Clean Up Your Site
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Question & Answer