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Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left

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Re: Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left

#13
Flipping through ABTests.com, I was hard pressed to find pages that tested having the call to action (CTA) on the left vs. CTA on the right.

I did find one for basecamp where they flipped left to right but it may not be the reason for the improvement. http://www.abtests.com/test/150001/homepage-for-basecamp

Without any evidence from the OP, how can we take the article seriously?

Re: Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left

#14
It's disappointing how many UX blogs, sites and "professionals" don't back up their claims with data.

Too many articles give rationale behind design decision while presenting reasoning as fact without supporting them with real data. There's nothing wrong with providing readers your reasoning, but in an area such as UX, I think these posts are more dentrimental than they are beneficial to those coming up in the field.

Re: Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left

#16

There is no data in the article to back up the author's hypothesis. Further no control for colors or even action/offer button language. I have read other papers with data and conducted my own UX studies that show completely different results.

Care to share?

Re: Why Users Click Right Call to Actions More Than Left

#20
post #18

I'm amused that a UX article has such a poorly written headline that I had to read it 5 times before I my brain parsed it properly.

I thought it was going to have to do with left click vs right click until half way into the article. In retrospect it was kind of a silly thing to assume, but thats what my first pass saw, and I use enough software at work that likes to throw everything important under the right click anyway that it seemed plausible.
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