Blog Usability Research

July 23rd, 2005 * Comments(0)

 Catalyst Group Design issued a study into blog usability called Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability

It’s well worth the read but here’s the shortest version –

Their researched was focused on

regular users of the Internet who had no, or limited, experience with blogs

The results revealed that

the core functions, terminology and habits associated with reading a blog are largely out of reach for mainstream audiences.

 Full 19 page document can be downloaded as PDF from their site but a summary is available as  a press release

Personally… although I’ve met many people who have a lot of problems using computers (or preffer not to at all) I haven’t seen many internet users who couldn’t find their way around a typical blog.

Is it really that difficult? Basically all you do is read and click on self explained links called forward, backward, comment…

I admitt there are many  unresolved usability issues with RSS but blogs and feeds aren’t the same thing. You can easily separate the two.

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