[muglo] Re: Jakob Nielsen's views re online generic images
- From: Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 10:52:31 -0400
On 6-Aug-11, at 5:44 AM, Leith Peterson wrote:
Yesterday I learned about the work of Jakob Nielsen. He did a study
which showed that people often ignore online generic images, so it
is usually better to add original photography. Below is a link to
an article about this.
My experience has been that when a blogger uses the same image over
and over again, it alerts me to the fact that he/she is trying to
establish a certain mood.
I would think it depends on what you want to accomplish with the
image. The stock photo of a television set showing "a guy in a canoe"
might be useless for selling television sets but effective in a
Participaction ad telling people to get off the couch and enjoy the
outdoors rather than just watching other people do it. In other cases
images can simply set a mood, as you say, rather than requiring the
viewer's conscious attention to themselves.
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