Week 7: We Can Fix It!

This week, we talked a little more about how SEO terminology will be fitting into professional settings as we start to get to work on our iFixIt projects. Specifically, when we’re designing pages for a certain product, User Experience will be really important. We’ll want to make sure that each page is loaded up with helpful information, images, and step-by-step instructions so that users can easily navigate the fixes and the page itself. From the User Context Signals & Search Engine Rankings reading that we had this week, Nguyen said, “Visitors should be able to quickly discern whether you’re offering what they’re looking for. Since audiences’ expectations vary greatly, so too will UX from site to site. Hone in on your audience’s preferences and tail your pages to meet their needs.” We can do that by applying the specific glossary that iFixIt provided on their website, such as using natural language, packing the page with content, using headings, and using keywords.

In class, we also talked about how textual attention is super important in choosing how we interact with our audience. When examining the iFixIt site, there actually are multiple opportunities for users to interact with the content presented on the page. They can add a comment after every single step, comment at the end of the post, and you can choose to be notified if any changes or notes have been updated on the page. This will be really helpful for us to consider in case anyone makes a comment saying our step-by-step process was wrong. After all, we aren’t experts in repairing these technological tools, so making sure the content is updated and accurate will be important. We should respond to those comments!