[Sigia-l] Display Size

[Tammie Hutto Egloff]

Also, keep in mind your user base. If you know the site will mainly/only be
used in a university library, walk around and look at the resolution being
used in the library. If its also for public use outside of the library... keep
that in mind and maybe some public stats are more applicable.

When I started my current position 2 years ago, I was confused at why we'd
still design for things to work well at 800x600.  Then, when I went to
hospitals to do some user interviews, one of the first things I noticed was
that in the medical libraries, a lot of screens were at 800x600. Even more
interesting, if I changed the resolution to 1024x768, the resolution was reset
while I went for lunch. So, even though the percentage of use is tiny for the
general public, it's actually used a lot for my target audience. So, we design
for products to work at well 800x600... but it also works well at higher
resolutions.


------ Original Message ------
Received: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:44:50 PM CST
From: "Maria Cordell" <mcordell at gmail.com>
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Display Size

> Looks like Bill's January 2007 numbers come from here:
> 
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
> 
> I've referenced these statistics before, but I always use them with
> caution; I always wonder what qualifies them as reasonably realistic
> given that the site itself caveats the statistics with this and
> similar statements:
> 
> "The statistics above are extracted from W3Schools' log-files, but we
> are also monitoring other sources around the Internet to assure the
> quality of these figures."
> 
> I can't find any specific reference that sheds light on those "other
> sources" nor any other information that qualifies them as suitable
> data collection sources.
> 
> When making design size recommendations for a client that already has
> a site, I always prefer to refer to the clients' own site analytics to
> make a determination. It's historical data, but it's hard to get more
> contextual than that.
> 
> Maria
> 
> On 2/15/07, Bill Killam <bkillam at user-centereddesign.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you're looking for data to support your claim, you can try this set of
> > statistics. It's nationwide data.
> >
> > Screen Resolution for January 2007
> > Unknown - 6%
> > 640x480 - 0%
> > 800x600 - 14%
> > 1024x768 - 54%
> > Higher - 26%
> >
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