{"id":1369,"date":"2006-06-23T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2006-06-23T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T17:47:50","slug":"words-are-worth-a-thousand-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/words-are-worth-a-thousand-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Words are worth a thousand pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=31&#038;aid=103505\">JOMC&#8217;s Laura Ruel reports<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nngroup.com\/\">Nielsen Norman Group<\/a> reports: &#8220;<em>Task-oriented users really don&#8217;t pay attention to images on Web pages.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Laura goes on to report that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to NNG, images that do NOT attract attention share these traits:<\/p>\n<p>    * Generic\/stock art<br \/>\n    * Off-putting, cold, fake, too polished or &#8220;set up&#8221;<br \/>\n    * Not related to content<br \/>\n    * Look like advertisements<br \/>\n    * Low contrast in terms of color &#8212; not crisp<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, images that DO get attention share these traits:<\/p>\n<p>    * Related to page content<br \/>\n    * Clearly composed and appropriately cropped<br \/>\n    * Contain &#8220;approachable&#8221; people who are smiling, looking at the camera, not models<br \/>\n    * Show areas of personal\/private anatomy (Men tended to fixate on these areas more than women &#8212; really!)<br \/>\n    * Items a user may want to buy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOMC&#8217;s Laura Ruel reports that the Nielsen Norman Group reports: &#8220;Task-oriented users really don&#8217;t pay attention to images on Web pages.&#8221; Laura goes on to report that: According to NNG, images that do NOT attract attention share these traits: * Generic\/stock art * Off-putting, cold, fake, too polished or &#8220;set up&#8221; * Not related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-news-of-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}