feed'd front page ready

[Ricky Zhou]

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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