Quick exit design pattern
Pleased to see a quick-exit-button on this https://t.co/6SBmWsXH8f service related to domestic abuse – goes instantly to https://t.co/2Tv1QocwQq
— Harry Trimble (@HarryTrimble) May 16, 2020
A few abuse charity websites were the first places I saw this design pattern used pic.twitter.com/uamz0oWaow
What to do with your website when you’re on TV
‘Big cats about the house’ is a TV show about The Big Cat Sanctuary in Kent and tells the story of their head zoo keeper who takes young big cats into his home to look after them before introducing them into the sanctuary as ambassadors to help raise funds to support big cat conservation in the wild.
You probably want to ensure your website can handle the extra traffic that comes from such exposure, but just in case you should also have a backup.
Set up Cloudflare to display a holding page:
Give people an offline means of getting in touch:
Leverage people’s interest to drive donations:
Give people a mobile-friendly donation platform:
Signing-up for a discount code: the winners and losers
Let’s say you visit an ecommerce website, and up pops a little box that says something like, ‘Subscribe to our newsletter to get 10% discount’. You think to yourself, ‘That sounds like a good deal’, so you enter your email address. And, just as promised, an email arrives with a discount code.
In that simple interaction there are some interesting negotiations and value exchanges going on. The website wants your email address so they can market to get you to buy from them. You might want to buy from them so getting a discount sounds like a good thing to you. Who wins and who loses?
Scenario 1
You ignore the offer and click the x to close the box. Nobody gains or losses anything, but there is failure to gain on both sides. The website didn’t get your email address and you didn’t get a discount code.
Scenario 2
You enter your email address and receive the discount code, but don’t use it as you decide not to purchase from this site. The website makes a little win as they have your email address to market to you in the future, but they didn’t get the bigger win of an order from you. You didn’t win as didn’t get what you were looking for (unless maybe you bought it elsewhere) and you had a little loss as you handed over your email address (but of course you could unsubscribe later).
Scenario 3
You enter your email address and receive the discount code, and place an order using the discount code. The website wins as they got an order (presumably with a margin they can accept) and got your email address to market to you later. You win as you purchased the item you wanted at a discount price.
This kind of cooperative/competitive game play is interesting. Are website owners setting out to create win-win situations with their customers? With a bit of research to understand how customers are approaching a website it isn’t too difficult to understand those value exchanges and create opportunities that help everyone achieve their goals.
Internet applications at a Wedding reception
Imagine our internet applications taking on stereotypical human form at your average wedding reception. What would be going on?
The website is the grandad passed-out drunk in the corner, snoring loudly so everyone knows he’s there and will need someone to look after him and make sure he gets home.
The apps is the dad embarrassing himself on the dance floor, trying desperately to get people to join him and not yet realising that his time has passed.
Messaging is the hip-young-thing going around talking to people, chatting to auntie about how lovely ceremony was, buying the best man a drink, directing people to the toilets, booking taxi’s, and making it all looks effortlessly easy.