Benefits of Usability

In the January 7th issue of Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, he noted that "Following a usability redesign, websites increase usability by 135% on average..." He went on to point out the following:

Metric
Average Improvement Across Web Projects
Sales / conversion rate
100%
Traffic / visitor count
150%
User performance / productivity
161%
Use of specific (target) features
202%

Did you get these kinds of numbers with your last Web site or software design?

 

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