Use case · Signs and ads

A farmers market chooses a sign.

Sixteen headlines, eight photos, six colours, two lines of small print. 312 Atlanta shoppers rated the combinations. You can rate a few first.

Try it

Rate four signs.

The same question the shoppers answered.

Imagine you're walking through a market. How likely are you to stop at this booth?
Keep walkingDefinitely stop
Objectives

Three questions.

Tap one for the answer.

1

Which line makes people stop?

Sixteen headlines, from "Keep your food dollars local" to "Visit our booth for 50% off".

+11"Visit our booth for 50% off." "Win a free month of groceries" scored +10. The headlines about local and sustainable food scored between 0 and +3.
2

Does it work the same for everyone?

The sign would stand in front of thousands of different people.

+13"Guess the price of our box" with men, +2 with women. Women responded to the discount and the produce photo; men responded to the headlines.
3

What should the small print do?

The headline stops them. The sub-header and strip have to explain.

3 in 5thought Fresh Harvest charged a subscription fee. It doesn't.
Audiences

Who rated them.

312 shoppers in metro Atlanta, recruited for this study.

201of 312

Go to outdoor festivals

A few times a year or more.

209women

and 103 men

The largest difference in the results.

110of 312

Shop on price first

Organic 79, convenience 72, local 51.

143of 312

Had heard of Fresh Harvest

169 had not.

The decision

The decision.

62

Pieces, in five layers.

Fresh Harvest delivers Georgia-grown groceries across metro Atlanta and needed an A-frame sign for festival booths. Sixteen headlines, sixteen sub-headers, sixteen call-to-action strips, eight photos, six colours. Each shopper rated 93 complete signs built from those pieces.

0

The score for every values headline with women.

"Keep your food dollars local", "Good for people and the planet" and "Do you know where your food comes from" each added nothing for the 209 women and six to eight points for the 103 men. Women responded to the discount and the produce photo.

By age: "Organic groceries, fair prices" added seven points for people between 35 and 54 and took ten away for people between 55 and 64.

Women stopped for
Men stopped for
3

Best signs, one per audience.

Each is assembled from the pieces that audience rated highest. The single best sign for everyone scores 78.

The six background colours scored within one point of each other.

Pick an audience. Swap any piece.

Decision at a glance

In brief.

Decision
One A-frame sign for festival booths
Pieces tested
62, across five layers. 196,608 possible signs, every one scored.
People
312 metro Atlanta shoppers, one day
Highest headlines
"50% off" +11, "Win a free month" +10
By audience
Men responded to the headlines; women to the discount and the produce photo
Decided
A different sign for each audience. Colour left to the designer.

Bring the headlines.

Thirty minutes is enough to plan the study.