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User Experience: Why Words (really) Matter in UX

User Experience: Why Words (really) Matter in UX | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winning author of “Thinking Fast and Slow” uses the terms “system 1” and “system 2” to describe how we process and understand information. System 1 is intuitive, non-thinking. System 2 kicks in when the brain must work on the problem.If I ask you what is 2+2, your system 1 brain immediately answers 4.

 

Now, if I ask you what is 2,531 + 9,518? without using a calculator, then your system 2 brain kicks in. You focus, and your cognitive load increases as your brain works towards the answer; 12,049.And it is the same for language.

 

If a Web visitor arrives at a Web page with a complex message, they must spend mental energy working to understand. And since people scan web pages and spend 15 seconds on average on each page, they will most likely churn....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Do you have a website content "blind spot"? It could be hurting your results.

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Introducing content intelligence | Forrester: Ryan Skinner's Blog

Introducing content intelligence | Forrester: Ryan Skinner's Blog | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

The technology simply doesn't know what the content's actually about, or how it works. It's just content. Mashed potatoes.


The same applies to marketers across the business. That great video explainer that got made two years ago during another CMO's tenure? It may as well be a little portion of mashed potatoes buried under a mountain of other mashed potatoes.


Enough of the metaphor. You get it.


Content intelligence changes all that. It is technology that helps content understand itself - what it's about, how it speaks, how effective it is at accomplishing certain goals, what emotions it calls to mind, etc.

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Ryan Skinner looks at the importance of "content intelligence."

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