On 2008-04-02 12:49:27 PM, Richard Harrison wrote: > Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote: >> "Simpler is better." Yes on a child's tape player; no in a cockpit. > Simpler's better in a cockpit too - just enormously harder to achieve. > > >> At least having different content on the front page we can have some >> better idea of what people are and are not doing. > Permit me introduce the word "funnel" into the discussion (for those > previously unacquainted with the term in this context). The idea is that a > landing page provides links to the major subdivision of a site by topical > areas of interest. Each subdivision offers successively more focused > direction to sub-topics, funneling the visitor ever more explicitly toward > the desired content. This model does not preclude alternative "quick-links" > that provide direct access to the more focused content for the more > sophisticated or returning visitor. I appreciate that having a > "surf-ever-deeper" to find your goal model is unappealing in some ways, but > this brings us back to the interaction design issue. I suspect that each of > us owns preconceptions and biases as to the nature of what visitors seek. > However, these biases are based in personal preferences not necessarily > accurately reflective of what the majority of visitors truly want or > expect. On this list alone, over the past, few days, I have seen more than > one request that reflects a very limited grasp of geek-dom as it relates to > the usage of the website as a tool to access the content. Newbies need > things that we do not. Definitely +1. On that note, I'd prefer news to be on a separate news page (and possibly get a large banner on the front page, as Mairin might have mentioned before). > I still favor the involvement of REAL user-interaction design folks. Is > there a hard deadline on "the final solution"? Nope. It'd be nice to have something ready for F9, but we are still free to make changes afterwards. Thanks, Ricky
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