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Adding psychology into the design process can have some positive effects for your website. Tap into your customers’ psychological drives. Think about what they want and how they want to get it. You’ll end up having happier visitors who will buy your products and refer you to their friends.
Building Trust
Trust is incredibly important on the web. It’s a priceless commodity in a community where anonymity is a norm. It’s often the deciding factor that determines whether a user will be perform a desired action or not.
Buying from an online store, hiring someone, or even accepting the advice of this blog post all needs trust beforehand. And on the internet where anyone can be anyone, knowing who to trust can prove difficult.
Competence, reliability, honesty, and security all play a part in determining the level of trust we have for one another.
For designers, a website earns trust with the right combination of design and language used on the site. Investing in a professional level of design communicates a commitment to success and a return on the investment.
Familiarity
When someone visits a website, they already have some idea on what they can expect to see. If your website is missing out on these things, your users will feel as if they have stumbled on some strange country that doesn’t make sense and therefore cannot be trusted.
At first glance, users immediately want to know what the site is all about. While taglines can help communicate the purpose, design can reinforce the message. Suppose you’re designing an e-commerce site, adding a brooding city skyline as your header will only confuse your visitors.
Your users may also come to expect some things on specific industries/interests like: (a) Blogs should have blog posts at the front page or (b) Products should be on the front page of an online shop. Your site should also have an “About” and “Contact Us” page as a default.
Branding Consistency
In addition to what your users already expect to see on your site, there are things that your users can associate with your company.
Think about the colors that you use in your offline marketing collaterals. You can incorporate those colors in your website in some way. You can use it as your header image or even just as your website’s accent colors. The same also goes with your logo. If you have a logo on your marketing collaterals, make it a point to include it in your website.
It may sound elementary but it can be surprising just how much some webmasters overlook consistency.
Design psychology is something every designer should learn more about and include in their process. It can be the deciding factor that will make or break your website and in turn, how happy your clients are. It’s easy to learn and won’t take up much of your time putting it into practice.
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