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SoopahMan
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:55 pm    Post subject: Fooling the User Reply with quote
There's a great interview that popped up on Slashdot recently with a guy who ran a usability lab on what causes users to visit and use spoofed websites. The observations include some of those really great kind where someone came to a completely logical, completely wrong explanation for something, like: "one regular Firefox user told me that he thought the yellow background in the address bar was an aesthetic design choice of the website designer."
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