misbehaving.net: gender bias in web site design
misbehaving.net:
Misbehaving has an interesting post about gender bias in web site design. Did you know that the vast majority of university web sites are designed to appeal more to men than women? When you're on the web, do you ever feel that you are in foreign territory?
Do you have a general feeling of "otherness" in this culture? Does knowing that most colleges have a "male" design for their websites add to a feeling of "otherness?" Do we feel that we are in a society that's not set up for our convenience? Enjoyment? Utility?
Is it a "man's world" in design? On the web? Has anyone ever commented on your web design in terms of gender?
posted by Morgaine @ 8:18 AM
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May be it is statistically found that most of the web surfers are males.
BTW, what do you mean by appeal more to men than to women !?
tarek, if you click the link your questions might be answered.
I clicked the link. Makes sense to me. My site is pretty male, I guess. I prefer black text on a white background because it's easier to read for me.
I like simple and easy to read. Black on white, big letters. I'm female.
The only sites that feel "other" to me are sites where the type is too small, the colors are too bright, or there are pornographic pictures of women.
Another female vote for black text on a white background. It's much easier to read.
I do like color in blogs, but I prefer that it be kept in the graphics, not the text area.
I'd never even considered web design as being possibly inherently male or female before reading this. I gauge other people's sites by ease of use, and design my own - and my clients' - sites according to their integral requirements (and DDA compliancy)...
Hm. Nope, apparently I have a blind spot where site gender is concerned. If anything about a site is going to be a turnoff for me, it's glaring colour contrasts, solid blocks of small text, and too many bells and whistles (Flash, mainly).
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