Money or User Experience?

Posted by on Apr 24, 2008 in Random Blabber | 5 comments

You can have a very simple, usable, (great user-experience-designed) yet non-revenue generating website like this:

Or a very high income-earning (but terrible UX) site like this:

How does your website look like?

Luckily UXMag.com provides a solution. Advertising, they say, is your friend.

You simply must find your balance. :)

More To read:

  1. How To Passionately Engage Your Blog Readers
  2. [Paper Prototyping] How To Move a TV with One Finger
  3. New Google Ad Techniques And A Note From A Reader
  4. Make Money While Keeping Users Happy
  5. Why Apple Keeps Secrets

5 comments

  1. Dexter
    24 Apr ’08

    guilty yata ako sa 2nd type a

  2. Blogie
    24 Apr ’08

    Most of my blogs now are midway between #1 & #2. ;)

    I think UX is still way more important, but bloggers who want to make money off of their blogs shouldn’t discount the significance of well-placed ads.

  3. Dexter
    24 Apr ’08

    @ Blogie

    I agree..

  4. Jozzua
    25 Apr ’08

    I’m guilty of it as well. Nothing to be guilty about. We do have to make a living. :)

    Makes blogging so much more fun.

  5. Luis Cruz
    25 Apr ’08

    I have my ads on the sidebar and below the post (but before the comments). There’s no advertising in my folio though.