Website Psychology incorporates three areas of research. Color Psychology, Psychological Triggers and Critical Thinking’s own Psychological process. Using Psychology, sales are optimized, customer interaction and retention is enhanced, and return visits are increased.What exactly does all this mean? Lets take a look at
three parts of Website Psychology.
Color Psychology
Color psychology is under-rated. Web designers do not take color into consideration when creating a web site. The reason? Color is just color too many.
However, color affects everything we do. The way we perceive others. Whether we are comfortable in a room. What we eat, how we dress, if we stop or go at
nearest stoplight. We do not realize
true impact color has on us, consciously and subconsciously.
Take orange for instance. If you are on a diet, orange increases appetite encourages relaxation and sleep. Blue decreases appetite, lowers
body temperature and eliminates
flight to fight response. As a sales tool, orange is pivotal for persons making a buying decision. It makes products more attractive and appears more affordable.
Without realizing it, web designers often use color in a way that is detrimental to
web sites productivity. The web sites color should be chosen after a demographic profile is done. It should also depend on
product being sold.
If
company has an existing logo,
color of
logo must be taken into consideration. The color can be incorporated into
site. However, a balance must be achieved between
logo and
colors for
sites productivity.
Large corporations long ago discovered
true importance of color to their products. Consider for a moment Coke and Pepsi. The predominant color for both is red. Walk into any grocery store and
majority of
packages are – red. The reason? The taste buds become more sensitive, appetite improves, and reactions become automatic.
Color Psychology is used on you every day. So are Psychological Triggers.
Psychological Triggers
If turkeys moo are they cows too?
What kind of question is that? It’s
kind that made you stop and think. It grabbed your attention. Probably made you shake your head and say, “Huh?” Without realizing it, you just reacted exactly as you were meant too.